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Critics say state needs to act to keep prison workers safer
By ncnewsonline.com- John Finnerty
Published: 08/24/2018

HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania leaders need to be more aggressive making the state prison system safe, a former prison guard turned legislator said Wednesday.

“We’ve got serious problems,” said state Rep. Cris Dush, R-Indiana County. Dush, who worked at SCI Forest, was elected to the state House in 2014.

Dush spoke Wednesday in the wake of incidents at three state prisons in which staff were sickened by exposure to toxic drugs. That issue added to existing concerns among prison staff and their families that workers are increasingly targeted in assaults by inmates.

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