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| Schuylkill Co. transfers 30 from its prison |
| By standardspeaker.com- Mark Gilger Jr. |
| Published: 03/21/2016 |
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POTTSVILLE — The inmate population at the Schuylkill County prison has finally fallen below its maximum capacity with the transfer of 30 inmates to two facilities outside the county. However, the county prison board is now considering transferring more inmates to a third facility as the female population continues to climb. “This is an area we are going to concentrate on now that we had this mass movement,” Warden Gene Berdanier said Wednesday at the monthly prison board meeting. Within the last week, 27 men were transferred from the county prison to Delaware County’s George W. Hill Correctional Facility, Thornton. Three women are being housed at the State Correctional Institution-Muncy. Agreements with those facilities were authorized in November for $60 a day per inmate. The state Department of Corrections provided the transportation and the county was only responsible to pay tolls and gas. On Wednesday, the prison had 274 inmates, including 61 women, Berdanier said. The approved capacity at the prison is 277. Fewer than 30 men were tripled in cells and eight women were in tripled cells. Prior to the transfer, about 47 men were tripled in cells. Read More. |
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