Warden Timothy Fritz said that the inmate population at the Carbon County Correctional Facility as of Wednesday was 231.

"The numbers have come down a little over the last few weeks," he said.A few weeks ago, the jail was averaging 240 inmates in the 223-bed facility."Hopefully we can get under that 223 mark shortly," Fritz said.Fritz said that laws allow the prisons to provide temporary beds to inmates for up to 30 days.He said that they have been shifting inmates around in certain blocks to alleviate some overcrowding in some areas.Fritz asked the prison board for a letter of support for a grant to start the re-entry program at the prison.Sheriff Tony Harvilla said the re-entry coalition has been working on the county re-entry strategic plan since last September. Pinebrook Family Answers has offered to write for a grant that the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency announced recently.