Carbon County's drug program in the prison is going well, officials report.

On Wednesday, Jamie Drake of Carbon-Monroe-Pike Drug and Alcohol Commission and Cheryl Donovan, the full-time drug counselor at the jail, spoke to the prison board about the drug treatment services that were implemented in January.Drake said that since the program was implemented, Donovan has seen 34 unique clients and has a total of 30 clients in the program as of Wednesday.Male inmates are primarily doing intensive treatment, which includes individual sessions plus two group sessions, while the female inmates are receiving individual sessions and one group session.Drake said there is a seamless transition procedure in place so that addicted inmates either leaving prison or coming into prison have services in place to continue drug treatment.To date, four clients have transitioned from jail to outpatient services and are currently active in the program, one has transitioned out of jail and stopped treatment, and two clients transitioned from outpatient services into the jail for charges they faced and are now receiving services while incarcerated.Drake said opiates are the drug of choice for many of the clients.She said that if Carbon-Monroe-Pike Drug and Alcohol Commission billed per service provided, the cost for the services over the three-month period would have been $23,347, which would equate to approximately $100,000 in a year. That means that the county, which entered into a contract with the commission, is seeing an annual savings of thousands of dollars.In other matters, Warden Timothy Fritz reported that he received the state inspection report for the prison and said that the county "made some decent strides in correcting some of the deficiencies."He said there are still some areas in the prison policies and procedures that need to be addressed, which he and his staff have been working on as time permits."The biggest thing is getting some of the language changed in some of the policies," Fritz told the board, adding that there are also some minor tweaks on the maintenance end such as adding locks to a few cabinets in some areas."We are getting a lot better in the state and hopefully will see a big improvement at the end of the year for our 2015 inspection," he said.Fritz also reported that the lighting retrofit project, which was a topic of discussion last month, has now been fully completed by the company.Last month, it was noted that the company didn't do the retrofits in some lights because of obstacles that couldn't be moved to provide access to the lights.