{"id":222403,"date":"2026-06-18T16:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222403\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:39:07","slug":"berks-commissioners-approve-hiring-of-new-jail-warden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222403\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks commissioners approve hiring of new jail warden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berks County officials on Thursday formally approved hiring a new warden.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioners authorized the appointment of Sean Smith as warden of the Berks County Jail System starting July 13. He was most recently assistant warden of community corrections at Montgomery County Correctional Facility.<\/p>\n<p>The previous warden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/04\/15\/a-bittersweet-decision-berks-county-jail-warden-is-leaving-post\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey Smith, stepped down from the post last month<\/a> after five years in the role to accept a position at Lehigh County Jail to be closer to his family.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Smith will receive an annual salary of $152,000.<\/p>\n<p>He has built a career at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, working his way up the ranks from a correctional officer to being named assistant warden in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berks County officials on Thursday formally approved hiring a new warden. The commissioners authorized the appointment of Sean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,1444],"class_list":["post-222403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-lan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}