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| Sen. Jake Corman challenges Department of Corrections practices |
| By centredaily.com - Matt Carroll |
| Published: 09/13/2013 |
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More than a month after a female employee at the State Correctional Institution at Rockview was allegedly raped by an inmate, a local legislator is pushing for a statewide policy that he thinks could have prevented what has been called a brutal assault. The 24-year-old woman was working as a clerk typist in a housing area of the prison July 25 when she was attacked from behind by an inmate on a work assignment collecting garbage cans, according to state police. State Sen. Jake Corman is questioning why the inmate ever had access to the woman, who is classified as a noncontact employee. And Corman, R-Benner Township, is asking the state Department of Corrections to implement a statewide policy removing all noncontact personnel and their work stations from inmate populations. “It’s shocking to me that noncontact employees, who are not guards and who have not received defensive training, would have any contact with inmates or be left alone with inmates,” he wrote to the DOC. “This policy must be changed immediately.” Read More. |
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