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College Welcomes John Wetzel, Secretary of Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
By .wcn247.com
Published: 03/19/2013

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.-- Westminster's Department of Criminal Justice will welcome John Wetzel, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, April 4 at 7 p.m. in the Witherspoon Room of McKelvey Campus Center. The event is open to the public.

Wetzel is the keynote speaker for Westminster’s Innovative Strategies in Criminal Justice Symposium taking place April 4-5. Wetzel has over two decades of experience in the corrections field with positions as a corrections officer, treatment counselor, supervisor of treatment services, training academy director, and warden. He was appointed as the corrections expert to the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons in 2007, and was appointed secretary of the Department of Corrections in 2010.

Wetzel has presented statewide and nationally on topics such as inmate labor issues, the mentally ill in corrections, jail staffing and conducting vulnerability assessments. He has also had several articles published and been part of efforts resulting in reduced jail population. NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.-- Westminster's Department of Criminal Justice will welcome John Wetzel, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, April 4 at 7 p.m. in the Witherspoon Room of McKelvey Campus Center. The event is open to the public.

Wetzel is the keynote speaker for Westminster’s Innovative Strategies in Criminal Justice Symposium taking place April 4-5. Wetzel has over two decades of experience in the corrections field with positions as a corrections officer, treatment counselor, supervisor of treatment services, training academy director, and warden. He was appointed as the corrections expert to the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons in 2007, and was appointed secretary of the Department of Corrections in 2010.

Wetzel has presented statewide and nationally on topics such as inmate labor issues, the mentally ill in corrections, jail staffing and conducting vulnerability assessments. He has also had several articles published and been part of efforts resulting in reduced jail population.

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