Inmates in Allegheny County Jail recently got an early Christmas gift, forty Sony Bravia 42-inch flat screen televisions. Not only are the inmates presented with the televisions, but each television is equipped with cable for the inmates’ watching desires. Besides being treated to flat screens televisions, inmates are supplied with three hot meals and a bed to sleep in. Onorato administration officials argued in a statement that it’s not the public’s money.
“No taxpayer dollars or county funds are being used to purchase the televisions. The inmates are purchasing the televisions to replace old or broken sets. The decision to purchase the TVs was made by a committee that consists of jail personnel and inmate advocates.”
The County Jail Oversight Board permitted the purchase for the televisions in the common areas. The Oversight Board only just approved the purchase of 40 televisions for $16,000 or $395 a piece. The funds come from their “Inmate Welfare Fund,†profits from the jail commissary used by the inmates.
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And this is what we spending our tax dollars on?!….smh they living better than the homeless
Shante OBVIOUSLY only read the title and not the article.
Why is this gossip? Who cares? People in prisons don’t deserve to have tvs?? This is the one institution in the US in which the abolition of slavery does not apply. They deserve a damn tv, and no, Shante, they did not use “tax dollars”.
I agree. They’ve taken everything else from the inmates, so why not give them flat screens with cable *shrugs* it’s not tax dollars
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MACK is loose… Clearly she didn’t read the post indeed. But shit, looks like Ima need to commit a crime. Life is hard, at least they eating 3 times and got cable television!!! SMFH [-__-]
I have worked since I was 16. I am now 53. I just bought my first flat screen tv a year ago. Prisoners have not earned such a luxury.
Well dag!!! I need to get in trouble out there! They have flat screens and 3 meals a day! I have a tube tv and barely eating 2 meals. They doing better than me and I am free!!!!!
All that glitters is not gold.You really have an ear for pop music.They’re in red and white.hind your light under a bushel.Walt invented the steam engine.He is tough，but I am even tougher.He fell behind with his work.They will arrive in half an hour.I don’t have any cash with me.Suppose it rains,what shall we do?