By David Singleton
The Times-Tribune
LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — Change is rarely popular, and as the person challenging the status quo at the Lackawanna County Prison, interim Warden Vincent Mooney acknowledges he is not exactly the best-liked guy within the walls of the jail.
“But I am not here to win a popularity contest. I’m here to try to help the Lackawanna County Prison rise to the level of professionalism that is expected,” Mr. Mooney said. “There are great people who work there who want to be professionals. They want to have that professionalism, and they know they have to start somewhere.
“Just because something was being done for 20 years doesn’t mean that it was right.”
Thursday’s unprecedented top-to-bottom search of the prison by a small army of state Department of Corrections officers - an operation so secret that its timing wasn’t revealed to the chairman of the prison board until Wednesday night - punctuated what has been a whirlwind, two-month effort by the career corrections official to establish more order and accountability at the facility.
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