Allegheny County Jail Guard Union Head Facing Charges
Allegheny County Jail Guard Union Head Facing Charges - Pittsburgh, PA - The corrections officer is accused of causing a disruption at a recent high school football game.
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Allegheny County Jail Guard Union Head Facing Charges - Pittsburgh, PA - The corrections officer is accused of causing a disruption at a recent high school football game.
Allegheny County Jail is short-staffed by more than 100 corrections officers, and more than half of budgeted health care positions are unfilled, according to an audit by Controller Corey O'Connor.
It started at summer’s peak with a fight in an Allegheny County Jail day-room and unraveled Friday into charges alleging a corrections officer helped plant drugs on an inmate. That officer, Scott Stawiarski, 31, of North Fayette, was charged Friday — and indefinitely suspended from his job without pay —
The union representing some employees at the Allegheny County Jail claims there are safety concerns for not only guards but also inmates.
A survey published last month found that a majority of correctional officers at the Allegheny County Jail feel undervalued, undertrained and overworked. The findings were the focus of a board meeting last month which adjourned early after participants broke out in a protest song.