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| Optimism centers St. Cloud prison warden |
| By sctimes.com - David Unze |
| Published: 10/27/2011 |
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St. Cloud MN -- It wasn’t exactly a “Scared Straight!” moment, but it could have been for Eddie Miles Jr. He was a senior at Miami Springs High School, growing up in the projects, when a class trip took him to a prison. There was an incident of some sort inside the facility, and Miles and his classmates had to be rushed into a room where they could be safe while prison staff handled the situation. “You’d think most 17-year-olds would be scared, but that just kind of fascinated me for some reason,” Miles said. “I always liked the prison movies and the whole idea of a warden. It was just something I was interested in.” Jump ahead about 25 years and meet the new warden of the Minnesota Correctional Facility-St. Cloud. It’s “the dream job” for the man who was a star high school football player and spent his college days helping out at the prison in Lino Lakes when he wasn’t taking classes or playing linebacker and defensive end at the University of Minnesota. Miles replaces Patt Adair, who retired after 16 years as warden. He is in charge of a facility that houses 950 to 1,000 inmates a day and employs about 400 staff members. It’s the intake facility for all adult male prisoners in the state, so it’s an important first stop for those who will be transferred to other facilities to serve the balance of their sentences. Miles began his new job in March. He wasn’t in St. Cloud long before he would encounter a challenge no boss wants to face. Shutdown The state was heading for a shutdown because of a budget impasse at the Legislature, and the new warden had to tell some of his employees that they were going to have to take time off without pay. He immediately had some tough decisions to make and had to convey to prison staff that they are important to the daily operations of the facility but at the same time they can’t come to work. “It’s difficult whenever you have to tell people, in this particular case, ‘We’re asking you not to come to work for a few weeks,’ ” he said. “It wasn’t easy. It was probably the most difficult thing that I did in my career in this business.” Read More. |
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