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| Christmas is 'just another day' in county prison |
| By republicanherald.com - Stephen J. Pytak |
| Published: 12/27/2013 |
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Gregory L. Wabo said he'll never forget Christmas 2011. He spent that Yuletide at Schuylkill County Prison in Pottsville, while serving a nine-month sentence on drug charges. "I remember I was looking forward to lunch. I heard they were supposed to do something special. And they gave us these two little round things. It was supposed to taste like ham. It was some kind of turkey ground up and processed. It was garbage. And when you're in prison, you're stuck in there," Wabo, 43, of Pottsville, said Dec. 17. While the prison kitchen staff and the local chapter of the Salvation Army make a few efforts to remind the prison's 258 inmates - 211 men and 47 women - that there's something special about Dec. 25, Christmas in jail isn't supposed to be festive, prison Warden Eugene W. Berdanier said Dec. 17. "Christmas is difficult in a correctional setting, obviously for people being away from their families. We try to recognize it without going to extremes. You don't want to make the environment look too Christmassy. That could add to their anxiety of them not enjoying it with their family and friends. We don't go overboard with decorating the facility. We try to, essentially, make it as low key as possible," Berdanier said. Read More. |
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