Carbon County officials are looking at the prison’s policies, procedures and operations.

Last week, the county prison board briefly discussed a prison evaluation study proposal, which the board is expecting to act on during its August meeting.

Sheriff Anthony Harvilla, president of the prison board, said this week that the study came about earlier this year once the new board was seated.

“The board felt that a review of policy, procedures and operations at the prison would provide a baseline for moving forward in future decision making,” he said, noting that the specific areas that will be reviewed will be finance, including budget compliance, review of contracts such as food service and work release money and the like; operations, such as staffing, inmate classification, disciplinary procedures, law enforcement liaison, visitor/attorney access and status of physical plant; and inmate/correctional officer programs, including a review of drug and alcohol, mental health, educational, re-entry programs, correctional officer training, employee assistance programs and correctional officer specific security training.

Harvilla said the prison board is “currently negotiating with two individuals who possess extensive community corrections and institutional corrections backgrounds, one of whom recently completed a similar study in Lackawanna County.”

The board will further discuss the evaluation at its August meeting, which will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 19.

The Carbon County Correctional Facility, located on the Broad Mountain in Nesquehoning, was constructed in 1995.