By Lisa Kopochinski
(04/11/2012)
(04/11/2012)
From a very young age, Lorenzo Lopez wanted to become an architect — a career he has never veered from and one that he continues to find rewarding and challenging.
(01/25/2012)
Jacqueline Moore expected her first correctional health care assignment to take about six months. Thirty-four years later, she's still in the field.
By: Ahavah Revis
(11/23/2011)
(11/23/2011)
As the commonwealth’s second youngest corrections secretary in history, John E. Wetzel, at 42, brings an unassuming, no-nonsense attitude to his greatest challenge to date: revamping the state’s prison system. Elected by former state attorney general Gov. Tom Corbett (R), Wetzel candidly states that “population is one of our biggest challenges,” and concedes the number of inmates was rising but “we are certainly expecting to reverse that trend,” noting it’s been flat the last year. One projection called for its numbers to reach 58,000 by 2014 and Wetzel said he is working hard to address that.
(11/04/2011)
J. Clark Kelso is receiver at California Correctional Health Care Services, which is responsible for providing medical care to 166,000 inmates (93 percent male and 7 percent female) at 33 adult institutions in California and overseeing more than 7,000 California prison medical care positions, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and administrative staff.
By Candice Dyer
(11/05/2010)
(11/05/2010)
When Erford Harrison joined Habersham Metal Products in 1956, building a detention facility meant years of heavy lifting, and piecemeal construction, finally crosshatched and finished with the clang of those iconic iron bars.
By Bryce Hubner
(08/04/2010)
(08/04/2010)
John Armstrong, 55, opted for an early retirement from the Connecticut DOC in 2003 after serving two terms as commissioner to enter academia as a professor.
By Bryce Hubner
(04/15/2010)
(04/15/2010)
Sam Youngblood brings 34 years of industry experience to the position, including three years as president and COO of Argyle and 15 years as CEO of detention equipment contractor ISI Detention.
By Bryce Hubner
(02/25/2010)
(02/25/2010)
Mike Retford, a project principal with primary responsibility for the western United States at design firm AECOM, brings 28 years of justice experience to his work in the field.
(01/05/2010)
Jerry Elmblad’s office at the Michigan Department of Corrections in Lansing is littered with papers and publications on cutting-edge technologies. With 25 years in the department, Elmblad has become one of the correctional industry’s foremost experts on energy use reduction.
(12/03/2009)
For Darrell Stelling, DLR Group’s criminal justice market leader for California, planning correctional facilities was the logical next step in the early development of his career. The efficiencies that are required for 24/7 operations at prisons and jails correspond well with his thought process for facility design.
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