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Prison board approves $11,050 payment to consultant for solitary-confinement study
Summary
The Lackawanna County Prison Board voted to pay consultant Dan DeMuth $11,050 from canteen funds for a 68-hour study on restrictive housing and solitary confinement.
The Lackawanna County Prison Board on July 31 approved a $11,050 payment from canteen funds to consultant Dan DeMuth for a study of restrictive housing and solitary-confinement practices.
Judge, chair of the Lackawanna County Prison Board, said the board commissioned the review and that DeMuth "provided the board an extensive review of the use of such disciplinary methods, reports on various studies and alternative measures, and suggestions for further implementation of the disciplinary and security measures." The payment covers 68 documented hours at $162 per hour, Judge said.
The report is posted on the county website, Judge said, and includes a breakdown of hours and the individuals DeMuth met with during the review. The board moved and seconded the payment; members voted "Aye," and the motion passed.
The board did not record a roll-call tally in the discussion excerpted in the meeting transcript. The motion specified that funds come from the canteen account; no other funding sources were mentioned in the motion.
Board members did not debate the report’s conclusions during the recorded discussion; the action recorded in the minutes was approval of payment to DeMuth for work already completed.
A separate agenda item approved other payables for the Community Corrections Center during the same meeting.
