The Butler County Prison is making an investment in safety as new metal detectors have been purchased for the facility.
A total of three units will be purchased at a cost of $12,000 each, using money that has been budgeted for equipment of this kind.
“Anytime we can get equipment that’s going to make things safer for the employees and the inmates, it’s a plus,” Warden Joe DeMore said in an interview. “These detectors can identify anything as small as a staple hidden on somebody’s body.”
The current hand-held metal detector units sometimes give a false positive but these new detectors are guaranteed to never give a false positive so any alert means that metal is present, according to DeMore.
The new detectors are expected to be in place by the end of August.
Written By: Ryan Saeler for the Butler Radio Network
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