After two years and six wardens the Monroe County jail has a new person in charge.
The Monroe County prison board didn't have to go far to find their next warden. Friday morning members chose Republican county commissioner Donna Asure.
She will be the seventh warden at the Monroe County Correctional Facility since 2007.
It's a role she said will be challenging, especially with the jail's recent troubled past.
Now the new warden is promising change.
"It's still very overwhelming right now because I have made a major decision to apply for something that will change my lifestyle and everything that I have done to this point," said Asure.
Newswatch 16 sat down with newly named prison warden and Monroe County commissioner moments after she got the news.
The 10-year county commissioner and past prison board president beat out three other finalists for the warden spot. Asure has even been serving as the interim warden since the spring.
"We have had no stability out there. There has been no consistency," the new warden said.
The position of warden has become somewhat of a revolving door over the past few years.
Since 2007 the prison has had six wardens. In March warden David Mauro resigned after being suspended. He had only been on the job for a couple of months.
Before him warden Marlene Chamblee resigned in July, 2008 after only six months in the position.
She had replaced warden David Keenhold who left the job in 2007 after a prison sex scandal. Six corrections officers and a kitchen worker from the Monroe County jail faced charges of sexually abusing inmates the year before.
Asure said it was during that troubled time she wanted to do something to change the prison.
"With the mistakes that were made over the past year-and-a-half we tried to put the right fit into that facility," Asure said. "They know my management style, both there and here. They know my leadership capabilities and I think it is going to be a great fit."
With Asure now prison warden a Monroe County judge will appoint her replacement to serve out the remaining two years of her term as Monroe County commissioner.
The Monroe County prison board didn't have to go far to find their next warden. Friday morning members chose Republican county commissioner Donna Asure.
She will be the seventh warden at the Monroe County Correctional Facility since 2007.
It's a role she said will be challenging, especially with the jail's recent troubled past.
Now the new warden is promising change.
"It's still very overwhelming right now because I have made a major decision to apply for something that will change my lifestyle and everything that I have done to this point," said Asure.
Newswatch 16 sat down with newly named prison warden and Monroe County commissioner moments after she got the news.
The 10-year county commissioner and past prison board president beat out three other finalists for the warden spot. Asure has even been serving as the interim warden since the spring.
"We have had no stability out there. There has been no consistency," the new warden said.
The position of warden has become somewhat of a revolving door over the past few years.
Since 2007 the prison has had six wardens. In March warden David Mauro resigned after being suspended. He had only been on the job for a couple of months.
Before him warden Marlene Chamblee resigned in July, 2008 after only six months in the position.
She had replaced warden David Keenhold who left the job in 2007 after a prison sex scandal. Six corrections officers and a kitchen worker from the Monroe County jail faced charges of sexually abusing inmates the year before.
Asure said it was during that troubled time she wanted to do something to change the prison.
"With the mistakes that were made over the past year-and-a-half we tried to put the right fit into that facility," Asure said. "They know my management style, both there and here. They know my leadership capabilities and I think it is going to be a great fit."
With Asure now prison warden a Monroe County judge will appoint her replacement to serve out the remaining two years of her term as Monroe County commissioner.
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