Police and jail administrators are investigating how a newly hired corrections officer at the Allegheny County Jail allegedly got through security last month with a gun, why it was not reported to supervisors and how the woman, who is reported to have a previous criminal record, got hired at the facility in the first place.
Bethany Hallam, a longtime Jail Oversight Board member, said the employee — who graduated from the county jail’s academy less than a week before the incident — was walked out of the jail and suspended earlier this week, as were multiple other employees.
Hallam also reported that the woman, who appears to have mistakenly left the gun in her purse when she reported to work that day, did not have a permit to carry a concealed weapon. She also is a person prohibited from having a gun in the first place because of a prior criminal record…