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Allegheny County Jail officials refuse to comment on potential staff shortage due to vaccine mandateAt a meeting with the Allegheny County Jail oversight board, administrators said more than 200 employees haven't been vaccinated with less than a month before a mandate kicks in.
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For now, Harper said, “the C-SAU training has been paused while there is a legal review of this action.”
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Members of the Allegheny Jail Oversight Board Monday night voted 4-3, with one abstention, in favor of ending the company’s contract to train corrections officers in tactics to remove noncompliant prisoners from their cells.
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Members of the Allegheny County Jail Oversight Board will hear from a use of force expert, jail administrators and the contractor himself before determining whether C-SAU should continue training corrections officers.
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Multiple prisoners' rights groups gathered Downtown Wednesday to call on the Allegheny County Jail Oversight Board to cancel a training contract at the jail. The jail hired controversial high-risk corrections training company C-SAU in July to implement new processes for cell extractions.
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A COVID-19-positive man, who had been incarcerated in the Allegheny County Jail prior to his admission to a hospital in late August, has died in that hospital, county officials announced Sunday. The death of the 48-year-old man is the first related to COVID-19 involving a person in the custody of the county jail.
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The Allegheny County Jail oversight board met for its monthly meeting Thursday. After heated debate about pausing training with the Corrections Special Application Unit, the board voted to observe a C-SAU demonstration and obtain more information about the contractor before deciding whether the training should be implemented.
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The warden of the Allegheny County Jail has responded to growing criticism over the facility's apparent new control tactics that will replace practices banned by voters this spring.
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Allegheny County Council takes up three bills to increase election monitoring as well as one that seeks to publicize more information on county contracts and purchases.
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Questions arose Thursday during an Allegheny County Jail Oversight Board meeting about two contracts approved by jail administrators. One would provide military-style training and gear to guards. Another supplies so-called less lethal weapons to the facility.