SANDRA TAN

News Staff Reporter

Two audits released last week by the Erie County Comptroller's Office have found no evidence that private money owned, earned and used by county jail inmates is being stolen or spent unlawfully by anyone in the Erie County Sheriff's Office.

But auditors still found plenty of other problems with Sheriff's Office handling procedures in inmate money, including a lack of safeguards to prevent any unscrupulous administrator from embezzling or misdirecting those funds held in trust, which amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In addition, the county has inadvertently lost some revenue as a result of lax record-keeping practices and failure to follow county procurement policies.

The two audits, released this week, examined how sheriff's administrators han

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