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Warden reports inmate population, staffing and incidents; public urges expanded library access and other services
Summary
Warden provided population, staffing and incident figures and answered public questions about sewage, health care, recreation, book access, OneDrive contract and meals; volunteers requested benches and a replacement TV for chapel programs.
Warden Betty presented the prison report at the July 31 Lackawanna County Prison Board meeting, telling board members the average daily population for June was 636 inmates, including 493 county inmates and 143 U.S. Marshal detainees. The warden said the facility averaged 577 adult males, four juvenile males and 55 adult females.
Warden Betty reported staffing as approximately 182 full-time correctional officers with five vacancies, six officers on workers’ compensation, one on administrative leave and 81 on intermittent FMLA. After a brief correction in the meeting transcript, the warden said there were about 170 correctional officers on shift at the time of the report.
The warden also described four "extraordinary occurrences" in June: (1) on June 2 a suicidal inmate was placed in an…
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