{"id":235214,"date":"2026-07-04T04:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235214\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T04:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:34:59","slug":"air-conditioner-malfunction-forces-inmate-relocation-at-erie-county-correctional-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235214\/","title":{"rendered":"Air conditioner malfunction forces inmate relocation at Erie County Correctional Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty five incarcerated individuals had to be relocated following an issue with the air handler that caused an air conditional malfunction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The inmates were moved out of the Gulf and Hotel units. \u00a0Officials say the cells in that unit will be out of service until they can get the air handler fixed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>There are currently 241 cell units out of commission at the Erie County Holding Center and Erie County Correctional Facility. \u00a0The sheriff&#8217;s office says their inmate population as grown from 717 to 760 in the past two weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is yet another constraint on my already strained classification team,\u201d said Sheriff John Garcia. \u201cWith 241 cells unavailable, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to assign incarcerated individuals to appropriate units, while still honoring the necessary classification requirements. We are quite simply running out of available places to house our population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff&#8217;s Office say several air handlers at Jail Management Division facilities are scheduled to be replaced as part of a $3 million project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixty five incarcerated individuals had to be relocated following an issue with the air handler that caused an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-235214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235214","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=235214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}