ACI Employee Awards Recognition Event, October 8, 2015 PebbleCreek, Tuscan Falls Country Club, Goodyear, AZ 85395

Having spent most of my career in Corrections, I have grown accustomed to seeing headlines that focus on the negative, like the Kingman escape and recent riot. But last August I instead saw headlines like:

  • “Inmates Help the Injured After Prison Bus Crashes Into Semi” from The Huffington Post
  • “Arizona prison bus crashes as inmates tend to injured and direct traffic” from the Guardian
  • “Prison bus crashes; Unhurt inmates helped the injured” from the Associated Press

After getting past the horror of the accident, learning that the injured were being treated and would, hopefully, all fully recover, I thought to myself, “Thank you. Thank you for not making a terrible situation even worse.” More…

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