TribLive 11/18/24: “Shane Dady had worked for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections for more than two decades when he took over last year as acting warden of the long-troubled Allegheny County Jail.

Even with all of that experience, he was apprehensive.

Dady was familiar with the jail’s reputation: bad, even as correctional facilities go.

Complaints ranged from the use of excessive force to staffing shortages, from a lack of medical and mental health care to a troubling number of deaths in the facility.

Underlying those problems: an administration long accused by critics of not having much interest in what happened at the jail.

“I knew this would be an arduous undertaking coming into this facility,” Dady told TribLive last week.

Now, 14 months later, Dady said things are better, but there’s much left to do. And at the end of this month, it’ll be someone else’s job to fix.

Dady must return to his post with the state, and still no new warden has been hired.

County Executive Sara Innamorato, who inherited ultimate oversight of the jail — and its attendant headaches — when she took office in January, announced in the spring that she hoped a national search would be completed by October.

It’s running behind.”

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