State officers need to know the way and why a Pennsylvania girl died while serving a two-day jail term associated to her youngsters’s truancy.
Eileen Dinino, a 55-year-old mother of seven, died Saturday on the Berks County Jail in Bern Township, about midway by the 48-hour sentence she was ordered to serve after her youngsters racked up a number of truancy violations.
A jail workers member discovered Dinino unresponsive in her bunk while performing blood stress exams on inmates.
An post-mortem has been accomplished, and no foul play is suspected, however the coroner is awaiting toxicology outcomes earlier than figuring out a trigger of demise.
Some legislators are asking why Dinino was jailed.
“I cannot understand how someone ends up going to jail,” stated state Sen. Judy Schwank (D-Berks County). “They did not murder someone, they did not steal, they did not commit a felony. How does jail time equate to resolving this particular problem?”
Authorities had filed 55 violations towards Dinino after her youngsters missed quite a few class days in each Reading and Muhlenberg Township.
Those violations every carry a potential five-day jail term underneath state legislation.
“That unfortunately is part of the law in Pennsylvania, and I think it is insanity,” stated Christian Leinbach, a Republican Berks County commissioner. “There has got to be a better way to deal with truancy than putting somebody in prison.”