CLEARFIELD- Inmates at the Clearfield County Jail now have a new handbook, and they will be given opportunities to review the handbook when first incarcerated and during their stay, members of the Clearfield County Prison Board learned Tuesday.
The handbook will be downloaded to all of the inmate iPads, which are shared among the population, and new inmates will be given an iPad and told to read the handbook when they enter the population.
The iPads are used for inmates to communicate in limited fashion with the outside. Their mail is downloaded to the system and can be accessed through the devices, eliminating the possibility of contraband drugs being smuggled via mail.
Inmates can also watch movies or listen to music and have other limited uses.
Warden Krisha Oates also reported that there was an extraordinary incident with one inmate who was attempting to cover the camera to his cell with paper. After numerous attempts to get him to remove the paper the corrections officers had to deploy spray and pepper balls, but then the inmate was cooperative and was taken to the showers and cleared by medical staff.
The board also learned that Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings will soon resume, which has been an concern for many people and the board expressed relief that the meetings will be available.
A new and more efficient lock replacement project is coming along and may be finished before the August deadline.
For the month of May the jail began with 159 inmates and ended with 152 and currently has an approximate population of 161.
