Carbon County Correctional Facility’s community service program has hit a slight snag.

On Wednesday, Frank Shubeck, work-release/treatment director at the prison, told the county prison board that the program, which aims to use work-release-eligible inmates who do not have employment for various community projects, has been temporarily suspended due to recent disciplinary issues with the inmates in the program.Shubeck said that the temporary suspension occurred this past week.Blue Mountain Health System campuses have been using a handful of work-release-eligible inmates for maintenance duties but had not needed them this week.Shubeck said that he plans to speak with the health system and see what the hospitals’ needs are and how they can move forward.The community service program was reinstated in the county in May 2015 after a few year hiatus and was open to municipalities and organizations that need work done.The inmates are paid $1 a day for working in the program.The entity that uses the inmates is required to provide transportation and supervision. In the past, an officer went out with the group to see that no problems occur.Shubeck also makes spot checks at the project sites. Other mattersIn other work-release matters, the prison board voted to form a committee to see if there are ways to change the work-release program to allow for additional inmates to be eligible.The work-release program is available to nonviolent and minimal crime inmates who have been approved by the courts.They can either receive immediate work-release eligibility or can become eligible if they serve at least half of their sentence, have had no disciplinary problems while incarcerated and have no serious detainers.To be eligible to go out to work, inmates must also have full-time employment in Pennsylvania and the employer must cover proper insurances.Robert Crampsie, county controller, said that the program benefits not only the facility but also the family and the inmate, who can still earn a salary while incarcerated.The new committee, which consists of Shubeck, Crampsie, Sheriff Anthony Harvilla and Commissioners Thomas J. Gerhard and Wayne Nothstein, plans to investigate the county’s options.Shubeck said that this may not work due to lack of current employment opportunities available to these inmates. Ways to interest employers to use work-release inmates will also be looked at.Currently, there are four inmates in the work-release program who have found outside employment.