TribLive: “Being in charge of the Allegheny County Jail means running from meeting to meeting.

But on Fridays, Warden Trevor Wingard slows down to a walk.

At the end of each week, Wingard strolls from floor to floor of the 16-level lockup, taking the pulse of the beleaguered facility he’s been tasked with changing.

Racking up 7,000 to 10,000 steps on his rounds, the new warden chats with corrections officers, checks the housing units for problems and answers questions — lots of questions — from those incarcerated….

Long, of the Abolitionist Law Center, said that her organization’s goals are to stop deaths in the jail and improve conditions there.

‘No one warden is going to do that, but I have been pleasantly surprised at the gains we’ve made,’ she said. ‘It would be a lie to say things haven’t gotten significantly better.’

Among those improvements, Long said, incarcerated people and their families are better positioned to advocate for themselves.

Part of it, Long said, is that the new administration is no longer combative.

‘We don’t have to fight about every little thing.'”

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