The escape of two prisoners on Monday is shedding light on current issues with Philadelphia’s jails and leading to more calls for the city’s prisons commissioner to step down. ByClaudiaVargas and RosemaryConnors have the details:
Philadelphia Prisons Commissioner Blanche Carney said all prisoners were reported as accounted for when head counts were taken at 11 p.m. Sunday, 3 a.m. Monday and 7 a.m. Monday, despite Grant and Hurst escaping earlier Sunday evening.
The search continues for two prisoners who escaped a correctional center in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, the Commissioner of the Department of Prisons continues to answer questions on the incident amid calls from a union for her to resign. NBC10's Rosemary Connors has the story. “That’s a shame. It’s time for new leadership,” Robinson said. “We had a vote of no confidence on May 2nd. It was unanimous. I reached out to the mayor’s office and of course the mayor said that he supports her. That’s his pick. His term is almost up so I don’t see him firing her. I don’t see her resigning.
When workers checked the recreational yard, they discovered a hole in the fence. They then looked at surveillance video which showed Hurst and Grant escaping from their cell door and exiting their housing unit before squeezing through the hole in the yard and climbing over the fence around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, the report said. According to the report, their housing unit was “unmanned due to staff shortage.
“The escape is only the latest, most notable sign of the lack of staffing and the lack of staff supervision that’s been plaguing the jails for quite some time,” Barth told NBC10.“We’ve been observing and reporting on decrepit conditions, problems with rodents, moldy showers, broken lights, broken phones, inoperable locks,” Barth said. “So the problems are diffuse.”
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