A new era of safety was ushered into the county with the arrival of two thermal body scanners at the Butler County Prison and Butler County Government Center last week.
In preparation for their use, .
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An inmate of Butler County Prison who was charged in connection to the overdose death of his cellmate waived his preliminary hearing Monday, March 11.
William J. Derrick, 43, waived the hearing on a .
The Butler County Prison will soon use a body scanner to check new inmates for COVID-19 and contraband.
The Butler County Commissioners accepted $337,000 from a federal grant to go toward two thermal.
A Butler County Prison inmate charged in connection with the overdose death of a fellow inmate saw those charges advance to the county Common Pleas Court following a preliminary hearing Monday, Feb. 1.