This private reference site is not a government office. It cannot confirm custody, release a person, post bond, or retrieve an official booking record. Contact the public office that holds the record or status directly.
Official Record Contacts
Lackawanna County has separate offices for detention, warrants, court records, and formal public-record requests. The public county site did not verify a prison records schedule or a special booking-photo line, so a written request is the appropriate route when an agency record is needed.
Lackawanna County Prison
1371 North Washington Avenue
Scranton, PA 18509
570-963-6639
Call for routing. Public records hours and a photo fee were not verified.
Lackawanna County Sheriff's Office
200 North Washington Avenue, first floor
Scranton, PA 18503
570-963-6719
Sheriff Detectives: 570-963-6761
County Open Records Officer
Fran Pantuso, Commissioners' Office
200 Adams Avenue, sixth floor
Scranton, PA 18503
570-963-6750
pantusof@lackawannacounty.org
Common Pleas Criminal Division
200 North Washington Avenue
Scranton, PA 18503
570-963-6759
Choose the Right Route
Use the office that created or maintains the item. Lackawanna County Prison is the contact anchor for county detention, while the county Open Records Officer receives the formal Right-to-Know form for an existing county record.
- Use the county record path for a focused booking-record or photo request.
- Use the Sheriff's Office to ask which unit handles a warrant inquiry.
- Use Pennsylvania UJS Case Search for a public criminal docket and disposition.
- Use the PA DOC locator only for state-sentenced or parole-related status.
- Use VINELink for qualifying custody-event notifications, not booking photos.