Jail and Prison Expert Only

Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness

Additional Information

• Began corrections work as a Deputy Jailer in 1984 • Retired Administrative Officer, Senior (Deputy Director) for Division of Community Corrections, Lexington, Kentucky-2008 • Served in the Marine Corps • Bachelors-University of Kentucky (Psychology, Sociology & Political Science Majors) • Masters(A)-University of Kentucky (Theory of Geography) • Doctorate-Kennedy-Western University (Public Administration) • Designed, developed, and supervised the pre-service and in-service training programs, management information systems, and offender classification systems • Certified FBI firearms instructions, BOP defensive tactics instructor, NIC instructor on jail multiple jail management topics (staffing analysis, classification, operations) • Developed contracts for a variety of privatized jail services • Served as a jail management consultant for various agencies such as the National Institute of Corrections (NIC); American Jail Association (AJA): Voorhis-Robertson Justice Services; U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); and the Netherlands Ministry of Justice, and individual local and state agencies • Provide consulting and expert services to jurisdictions across the United States in jail and prison management and operations • Assisted in implementing statewide jail risk management initiatives in South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and Wisconsin • Served on the Board of Directors of AJA; Institute for the Prevention of In-custody Death (IPICD), Board of Americans for Effective Law Enforcement (AELE) • Expert witness, both plaintiff and defense-jails and prisons only • Testified nationally in multiple State and Federal Courts-civil and criminal