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Officers Hold Drills At County Prison
By thetimes-tribune.com
Published: 01/28/2011

A Lackawanna County Prison corrections officer refused to slip his food tray through an opening in his cell door Thursday morning, prompting a forced cell extraction.

"Not till I get my visit," he told other corrections officers. "Not till I see my kid."

Had he been an actual inmate rather than posing as one for a training exercise, the fake pepper spray a corrections officer blasted through the food-tray slot would have been real as the first step in extracting him from his cell.

"You always try to show the least amount of force initially," explained Interim Prison Warden Vincent Mooney. "A lot of times inmates just decide that they're not going to come out."

As did this "inmate."

While one guard monitored him to make sure he did not have a dangerous reaction to the spray or arm himself with a weapon, the rest of the extraction team listened to the game plan out in the hallway.

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