{"id":324249,"date":"2026-11-09T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324249\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T16:30:08","slug":"a-celebration-of-renewal-at-lackawanna-county-treatment-court-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324249\/","title":{"rendered":"A celebration of renewal at Lackawanna County Treatment Court (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lackawanna County Treatment Court celebrated its 42nd graduation ceremony Thursday at the People\u2019s Security Bank Theater at Lackawanna College in Scranton. Forty-seven men and women were among this year\u2019s graduates for all of the specialty courts. In addition to the graduates, 17 individuals had their charges dismissed and nine had their charges expunged at the event. The ceremony marks the completion of an intensive program of comprehensive drug and alcohol and mental health treatment, close supervision and full accountability, court officials said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Judge for the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County Michael Barrasse speaks during the Lackawanna County Treatment Court graduation at Lackawanna College's People's Security Theater in Scranton Thursday, November 5, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/STT-L-DRUGCOURT-1106-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1976059\" \/>Judge for the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County Michael Barrasse speaks during the Lackawanna County Treatment Court graduation at Lackawanna College\u2019s People\u2019s Security Theater in Scranton Thursday, November 5, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The Lackawanna County Treatment Court graduation begins at Lackawanna College's People's Security Theater in Scranton on Thursday, November 5, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/STT-L-DRUGCOURT-1106-03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1976060\" \/>The Lackawanna County Treatment Court graduation begins at Lackawanna College\u2019s People\u2019s Security Theater in Scranton on Thursday, November 5, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lackawanna County Treatment Court celebrated its 42nd graduation ceremony Thursday at the People\u2019s Security Bank Theater at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,28,727,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-324249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}