A staffing dispute is unfolding over who guards Allegheny County Jail inmates when they\u2019re hospitalized.<\/p>\n
Sheriff Kevin Kraus has pulled his deputies from those assignments, citing budget and officer safety concerns over a new family notification policy.<\/p>\n
Kraus says he\u2019s working with the county to resolve the issue after pulling his deputies a week ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re taking the approach for a solution-based outcome here, is what we\u2019re trying to do and I\u2019m hopeful we can come to that, said Sheriff Kraus. \u201cAt the end of the day, I cannot put my deputies are risk. It\u2019s my job to assess risk, mitigate risk and look out for the personal safety of my employees.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kraus says corrections officers are now responsible for guarding hospitalized inmates.<\/p>\n
Kraus says he\u2019s concerned about the new policy, that notifies families when an inmate is hospitalized and that could bring visitors to the hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a very serious concern and over decades, we\u2019ve taken very serious and sensitive protocols, as it relates to safety,\u201d added Kraus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A staffing dispute is unfolding over who guards Allegheny County Jail inmates when they\u2019re hospitalized. Sheriff Kevin Kraus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9647,49688,73,75,74,14076,114911],"class_list":["post-273182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny-county-jail","tag-inmate","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sheriff","tag-sheriff-kevin-kraus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273182","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=273182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}