Consultant issues scathing report on murder suspect’s escape
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A consulting firm says the Pennsylvania county jail where an inmate escaped before allegedly killing a woman had poor morale and training and a warden who wasn’t respected by staff – which included a guard who was nodding off instead of monitoring security cameras the morning of the escape.
The report by CSI Corporate Security says 38-year-old Robert Crissman was wrongly given a trusty job that enabled him to leave the jail to retrieve breakfast trays for inmates when he escaped from the Armstrong County Jail on July 30. Crissman, a heroin user, was still in drug withdrawal and shouldn’t have been in the program, the report says.
The Armstrong County Prison Board paid $15,000 for the report but says, despite its findings, no guards “should be held responsible or be blamed” for the incident.