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…