Pennsylvania jail where Danelo Cavalcante escaped will spend millions to increase security
The Pennsylvania jail from where killer Danelo Cavalcante lately escaped will spend as important as$3.5 million to enclose out-of-door exercise yards in expedients of precluding unborn flights, officers said Wednesday.
The Chester County jail board unanimously approved a series of security upgrades, which include plans to cover eight out-of-door exercise yards.
Other advancements proposed are the installation of over to 75 further surveillance cameras around the West Chester installation and the hiring of eight further staff members to cover those eyes in the sky.
When Cavalcante escapedAug. 31, he was wearing a noncommittal white shirt, dark pants and white lurkers. He was captured two weeks latterly.
Howard Holland, acting Chester County captivity warden, said Wednesday that he plans to change what convicts must wear.
captures should slip ” high visibility apparel and also vary the color grounded on their bracket situations,” he said.
The location where Cavalcante climbed to freedom is where another inmate, Igor Bolte, also got away by scaling the walls May 19. Bolte was captured in a residential neighborhood about a half-mile from the prison.
Chester County residents attending a town hall Wednesday night were still livid about the recent escapes.
“It’s shameful that we’ve made national news, worldwide news because of all the bungling,” one of them, Bobbie Surrick, told NBC Philadelphia on her way into the meeting.
Chester County Vice Chairman Josh Maxwell, who also attended the hearing, said he understands the community’s outrage.
“We have to go out every single day, every single week to try to earn this community’s trust and deliver on those promises we’re making,” he said.
