County To Take State Inmates
York County PA commissioners today approved an agreement with the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections to house state inmates at the York County Prison at the rate of $60 per day, according to the York Daily Record.
The state is building new facilities that should be done in three years and has asked counties to temporarily take in prisoners during that time. County prison warden Mary Sabol said she’s scheduled to meet with representatives of the Department of Corrections Thursday to discuss details such as when the prisoners will be moved to York County. Sabol said the county made the state an initial offer of 50 beds, which the prison can easily accommodate. The prisoners will be low-level-security inmates, she said. “They would be a population that would probably be with us for a year or two,” Sabol said.
The jail also houses about 700 prisoners from federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Sabol said.
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