[0:00] Good morning, mayor. Who else we have?

[0:08] Hi Kristen.

[0:15] Sheriff Chief just walked in. Good morning. Who just joined?

[0:20] Ryan. Okay.

[0:21] Good morning, Ryan. Good morning, DA.

[1:16] Good Okay. Okay. This time I'd like to convene the

[1:20] the prison board and seek approval for the minutes.

[1:23] I move to approve. I'll second.

[1:29] Any additions or corrections? Hearing none, all in favor?

[1:33] Aye. Aye.

[1:35] Aye. That motion

[1:38] carries. At this time, public comment on agenda

[1:40] items only.

[1:44] Hearing none, we'll move on to the approval of bills.

[1:48] Can I have a motion? I'll move to approve the bills.

[1:51] I'll second.

[1:57] Any comments concerns?

[2:06] Have we ever checked into seeing if the health care could

[2:11] do any of these prescriptions? I think that we spoke to

[2:16] Yeah, but we haven't gotten the word back.

[2:19] Yeah. Okay.

[2:21] All right. Actually, Warden, have you noticed any

[2:25] decline in the price of food or leveling off a little bit of the price price of

[2:29] food?

[2:32] I believe that there has been a decline in the price of food, but I also think

[2:36] our vendors uh we're we're down to only one vendor who's submitting bids and and

[2:41] perhaps uh Controller Rogers might be able to

[2:44] uh discuss that a little further, but I think that was one of the concerns. We

[2:47] used to have three vendors, we're down to one now, so it's

[2:50] Okay. Why did the other two drop out? I didn't know that.

[2:53] I think because of the um fluctuation in pricing

[2:58] Okay. that they they didn't want to submit

[3:00] they submit bids quarterly and they're I think locked into that price

[3:04] and because of the um the way that the market on food was fluctuating, they

[3:10] they didn't feel comfortable I believe it at least that's what I had

[3:14] heard from our food service supervisor. Sure.

[3:17] Okay. Maybe we can get them back if the price is level off a little.

[3:23] Okay. All in favor? I.

[3:25] I. I. Any opposed?

[3:28] The motion carries. We'll move on to approval of personnel actions. Warden.

[3:33] Thank you, Commissioner. We have multiple personnel actions. Uh

[3:37] the first five on your list are correctional

[3:40] officers at the prison. That would be Matthew Fogle,

[3:44] Zane Hill, Robert Paul Hammes, Zachary Baylor, and Tammy Dunlap.

[3:50] We also have Jennifer Tedesco, who is clerk three, and Christopher Hess as a

[3:54] full-time resident supervisor at pre-release.

[3:59] Any questions? Can I have a motion to approve?

[4:04] I'll move. Judge?

[4:05] Here in the second motion. And Swartz second that.

[4:11] Okay, all in favor? Aye.

[4:12] Aye. Aye.

[4:13] Any opposed? That motion carries.

[4:17] Okay, informational highlights. First informational highlight is the

[4:20] population report. In the month of July, the prison carried

[4:24] an average of 170.10 males,

[4:28] and at the pre-release center, we carried 37.42

[4:31] males for an average daily population of 207.52.

[4:37] We had a peak population in the month of 221.

[4:40] For females at the prison, we carried an average of 26.29.

[4:45] At the pre-release center, it was 15.94 for an average daily population of

[4:50] 42.23, and there was a peak population of 46 in

[4:54] the month. Our average daily population then

[4:58] for was 249.74, which you can see is just about 20

[5:02] inmates more per day than what we averaged in June.

[5:07] Uh we also had a peak population in the month of 263.

[5:12] Um we had 13.13 males on in-home detention and 0.74

[5:17] females. There were no overcrowding transfers, so our total again is the

[5:22] same as the average daily population 249.74.

[5:28] The prison disciplinary report in the month of July, there were 35 hearings

[5:35] conducted. 31 of those hearings resulted in

[5:39] findings of guilt with disciplinary lockup time imposed.

[5:44] Two hearings resulted in guilty findings with disciplinary lockup time suspended

[5:51] and two hearings resulted in not guilty findings.

[5:55] The number of inmates were 31 that had hearings,

[5:59] four of which had greater than one incident.

[6:02] And staff generated 21 informational reports in the month.

[6:06] Is there any other information, Ryan, that you wish to add?

[6:09] No.

[6:11] The next report is the pre-release center report.

[6:15] The monthly average for work release was eight males and one female.

[6:20] On work crew, it was 30 males and 15 females

[6:24] for a total average of 38 and 16, and our year-to-date average is 35 and 10.

[6:31] There were no program highlights in the month.

[6:37] The bail release program report is next, and there were a total of an average

[6:43] total of 149.45 clients on supervised bail. That's

[6:48] broken down into 46.68 on supervised bail, 100.13

[6:54] on intensive supervised bail, and 2.64 on supervised release serving a sentence

[7:00] for driving under suspension. Those clients then saved 4,633

[7:05] bed days at the prison.

[7:10] And the last report for informational highlights is the

[7:14] mental health snapshot. That was taken on August 4th, and on that day there

[7:18] were 292 total inmates counted within the prison system.

[7:23] 249 males and 53 female or 43 females. Under roster A, there was 127 total

[7:32] inmates with no mental health history, and that was 43.49%

[7:36] of the population. There were 65 inmates under roster B

[7:40] having past mental health history but no active symptoms in the last year, that

[7:44] was 22.26%. Under roster C, there were 91 inmates

[7:50] having current mental health issues, that was 31.16%.

[7:55] And there were nine inmates experiencing serious mental illness under roster D,

[8:00] that was 3.08%. The psychotropic medications dispensed

[8:06] at the pre-release center of the 36 males that day,

[8:11] nine were receiving meds, and that was 25% of the population.

[8:16] Of the 14 females at the pre-release center, seven were receiving meds or 50%

[8:21] of the population. And at the prison, there were 189 males,

[8:26] 47 were receiving meds, that's 24.87%. And there were 23 females, nine

[8:33] receiving meds or 39.13%. The total percentage of inmates

[8:39] receiving medication psychotropic medication at the pre-release center was

[8:42] 32. The total percentage at the prison was 26.48,

[8:47] and within the entire prison system, 27.48.

[8:54] Additional informational highlights. On July 6th and July 20th, prison staff

[9:01] participated in expandable baton training, that was conducted by training

[9:05] sergeant Joe D. Francisco. On July 13th, Deputy Warden Evner

[9:10] participated in a statewide medication assisted treatment monthly meeting.

[9:15] Also on July 13th, medication assisted treatment was initiated at the prison,

[9:21] and that's being that's being provided in cooperation

[9:25] with West Branch Drug and Alcohol Abuse Commission and River Valley Health and

[9:29] Dental Center. On July 25th, members of the prison and

[9:34] PRC staff attended a re-entry simulation event at the Pennsylvania College of

[9:39] Technology that was conducted by the PA Department of Corrections re-entry team.

[9:45] And on July 27th, Deputy Warden Ebner conducted a prison tour for members of

[9:51] the Human Resource Office. And those are all the informational

[9:55] highlights that I have. Thank you, Warden.

[9:57] Anybody have any comments, questions? So, Warden, I believe that on the

[10:03] medicated assistant treatment initiated is being paid for by our opioid

[10:07] settlement. That's correct.

[10:08] funds. That was one of the items that it was allowed to be used for and

[10:13] commissioners and the board agreed to do that.

[10:16] Yes. Yes. Yeah, there was a there was a contract that was approved. Um

[10:22] I don't know the date of that, but it was presented to the commissioners and

[10:25] the contract is for those services, but at it said no cost to the taxpayers.

[10:29] It's all being handled through opioid settlement.

[10:32] settlement money.

[10:36] Okay.

[10:41] I'm going to move on to old business in the re-entry program.

[10:48] It's a big day today, right? Sure is.

[10:54] Good morning, everyone. My name is Nick Henning and I'm the

[10:56] re-entry coordinator for GEO Re-entry Services.

[10:59] Um to start, we'll do the in-prison re-entry report.

[11:02] As of 7/31/23, we have 36 active participants with zero pending.

[11:08] Um since the beginning of the year, there have been 76 intakes completed, 28

[11:14] LSIR assessments completed, 76 transition transitional action plans

[11:18] completed, and 184 sessions completed. Uh total participants released since

[11:25] programming began this year is 71. Um there has been 34 appointments made

[11:30] and 166 resources given. Um total referrals made to the program

[11:35] was 101, 76 coming from the prison and 22 from the pre-release center.

[11:41] Um we had eight referrals for the month of July.

[11:46] Uh referrals broken down by um sentence, we had 20 probation

[11:51] violations, 11 max outs, 34 new cases, 23 domestics, nine contempt, and three

[11:58] for treatment court. Our average population per day for

[12:02] re-entry was 70. We had total of 24 intakes and 14 discharges. Six of those

[12:09] discharges were successful. Uh our total numbers for EM right now

[12:13] are 32, 15 being adults and 17 being juveniles.

[12:19] Um then the report from John Stoll, program population statistics, there

[12:24] were 11 sentenced, 58 on APL, and one pre-trial.

[12:29] Total pro- Total program population as of August 1st was 70 with 47 male

[12:34] clients and 23 female clients. For GPS alcohol monitoring services,

[12:41] there are currently 15 active clients receiving monitoring services. Six of

[12:46] those are on a tag unit, three are on a GPS monitor, five are on a home guard,

[12:50] and one is on a SL3 breathalyzer. Um and as of juvenile overview of

[12:55] services, there are currently 17 active cases on GPS services

[13:00] um for juveniles. Any questions?

[13:06] Yeah, thanks. Thank you very much.

[13:10] Good luck today. Thank you.

[13:15] All right.

[13:20] The prison You can do both.

[13:22] Yeah, good. Yeah.

[13:23] Um

[13:26] All right. Uh the prison board meeting for next month will be held

[13:30] uh at the prison on 9/8/23. Uh is there any new business before

[13:39] We're moving to the executive session.

[13:42] None. No.

[13:43] Okay. We're going to recess and have an exist

[13:46] uh executive session back. And then we will reconvene.

[13:50] Jill, where can I reach you? Yes, extension 2240.

[13:57] If the other board members would remain on the line, I'll reconnect in the uh

[14:02] conference room.

[14:08] Thanks.

[14:20] Yeah. Yeah.

[14:21] Yeah.

[14:27] Amen. Just want to remind everybody we were

[14:29] well today.

[14:33] We don't have a quorum. Yeah.

[14:37] Well, the sheriff's on the phone, so

[14:41] I only have one board member who is not here.

[14:51] So, your wife still here? She should be.

[15:00] It's a good one.

[15:02] I have a phone in my ears, but the reason I'm going to take

[15:05] it is because I'm not getting a signal.

[15:12] The last fall, I screwed up my shoulder. It split what happened.

[15:16] Make sure I am. That would be good for my health.

[15:21] I think we're in constant I got shoulder issues,

[15:24] back issues. Yeah.

[15:26] That's what it is. It's all right.

[15:31] It had started in the hip center there. Yeah.

[15:36] That's what it is. It's all right.

[15:41] It's going to be an issue. 48 years but they don't remember

[15:45] She is. She is.

[15:48] This is it.

[15:51] It could be This one here.

[15:53] This is it.

[15:57] Yeah, I know. Second

[15:59] Is everybody invited? Yes.

[16:01] That's it. I have a bowling alley in my house.

[16:04] Yeah. 40 bucks a person.

[16:08] Yeah, and then they kick you out. It's a good deal.

[16:12] Yeah, well, we Hello.

[16:17] Okay. Everybody ready?

[16:20] It's to be your final call 2 hours before

[16:24] All right. So, we get

[16:26] orders on the shots people like to drink.

[16:31] This is how she matches the other shots. It's a serious situation.

[16:35] She got one. It's like

[16:39] She gets back at the same amount of shots.

[16:44] I don't know what to I guess it would be

[16:47] a bunch of Yeah. They prefer that

[16:51] That's what she said. She said So, actually

[16:55] that's what she just wants some solid Yeah, she wants some

[16:59] It's a girl's first time. One consistent

[17:03] And then I guess she's like, "No, it's it's like

[17:05] solid."

[17:08] And she said today or yesterday she said she got

[17:13] She wants some She said you got the steps.

[17:18] So, it's like So it's like

[17:23] Seems like that should work.

[17:27] So it should work both ways. It also just feels like

[17:31] it won't stay. It's got to be this.

[17:34] Yeah, it's all this right here. That's what I said to them about

[17:37] everything that you did that stair with you.

[17:42] And I went to follow this down on the field. And he said, "Actually, how's it

[17:45] feel?" And he said, "It feels great. It's like a It don't

[17:49] I just asked him if you can really solve

[17:51] or not. Solving it. And I said,

[17:54] other than the And he said, "Yeah, it's very cool

[17:56] though. It's very cool though. I get it.

[18:02] You do that for fun. And when she had the photos

[18:06] and she said, three or four times the same

[18:09] And then we had

[18:13] And then we had two guys

[18:23] And then we had something

[18:27] Yeah, what was that? Yeah.

[18:30] I'm just talking.

[18:33] It's like And to be honest with you,

[18:36] that's what I said.

[18:39] I was like, "This is kind Right.

[18:44] I mean, you can talk to

[18:47] You can try to do So we can keep

[18:52] Yeah. Listen to this guy.

[18:55] I just don't think I can do it though.

[19:02] You can do anything. I don't forget

[19:07] You can do something cool.

[19:11] It's like this. You can shut

[19:15] Is this the same

[19:23] Yeah, I'll do

[19:28] Good.

[19:32] When is that?

[19:36] I have I'm not sure what's

[19:46] She won't run. So then

[19:54] Good luck. I don't think I think we

[19:57] We're out there. Friday before

[20:01] three times

[20:03] You just get three payments

[20:11] I think it's

[20:39] I think you just have one second. I'll give you the picture of

[20:51] Hi Joe, you can call back in. Thanks.

[21:09] It's the same

[21:14] Hello. Hi, can you hear me?

[21:16] Okay. Get this done. I'd like to reconvene

[21:20] with the board meeting and seek a motion for the termination of

[21:24] Kelly Burkholder at pre-release. I'll move to terminate.

[21:29] Chair, I'll second that motion. Okay.

[21:33] Any other discussion? All in favor?

[21:36] Aye. Any opposed?

[21:40] Abstentions. Okay, that motion carries.

[21:46] Okay. Any other comments?

[21:50] Okay, we are adjourned. Are you ready?

Prison Board Meeting 8/11/2023

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