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Lackawanna County prison board approves payables, accepts financial and operational reports
Summary
At its Aug. 20 meeting the Lackawanna County Prison Board approved payables and accepted controller, community corrections and warden reports that summarized account balances, program activity, staffing levels and three July extraordinary incidents; personnel matters were discussed in executive session.
The Lackawanna County Prison Board on Aug. 20 approved payables and accepted several regular reports that showed current inmate and canteen balances, program activity in community corrections and staffing pressures at the county prison.
Controller DeBlio told the board, “The balance in the inmate account was $474,845.20 as of 07/31/2025.” He also reported the canteen checking account balance at $595,257.11 and a Pennsylvania Local Government Investment Trust (PLGIT) investment account balance of $968,950.86 that “earns approximately $3,423 per month and which will next mature in January 2026.” DeBlio said $92,425.74 was paid from the Canteen account in July for the benefit, welfare and education of county prison inmates.
Those figures anchored the board’s financial review. The board approved a motion described in the meeting as “253038,” to pay current invoices for the community corrections center and then voted to accept…
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