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| Prison Board to Meet with Engineers |
| By The Daily American |
| Published: 01/09/2006 |
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Pennsylvania's Somerset County Prison Board members will meet later this month with representatives for an Ebensburg engineering firm to consider renovations to the Somerset County Jail. Commissioner Jim Marker, a prison board member, said a meeting with representatives for L. Robert Kimball & Associates has been scheduled for Jan. 13. The meeting had to be postponed twice because of inclement weather and a personal situation involving one of the surveyors, he said. The firm has agreed to study the jail at no cost to the county. Officials have recommended moving female inmates from the jail to the neighboring work release center to open up space for an inmate classification area inside the county lockup. Officials also are considering turning the jail's garage into a restricted housing unit for problem inmates. The announcement came as the jail's population rose to 133 inmates last week, a number that included 118 male inmates, 15 female inmates, 11 inmates on work release and seven inmates serving state sentences, according to jail Warden Timothy Mapes. Sixty-six percent of the inmates are serving sentences, while the other 34 percent are being detained, Mapes said. The jail averaged 118 inmates in December and 103 inmates in 2005. |
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