by TChris

Pennsylvania's prisons seem to be having management problems. From Westmoreland County:

Westmoreland County's prison warden was threatened with a contempt hearing and a potential involuntary stay in his own building Thursday over repeated failures to release an inmate on work release. Warden John Walton said he attempted to comply with the court orders but was looking after the county's financial interests when a self-employed inmate didn't have any workplace insurance.

Here's a clue, Warden: that's a problem for the judge to worry about. Your job is to follow the judge's orders, not to ignore them because you think it's in the county's "best interests" to do so.

From Fayette County, a problem that involved a corrections officer, rather than an inmate:

Fayette County has reached a nearly $16,000 settlement with a correctional officer who was temporarily fired 10 years ago for urinating in a prison office. William Prinkey, 48, who was dismissed in 1994 after relieving himself at his duty post when he was denied a restroom break, will receive $15,800.

When ya gotta go, ya gotta go.