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| How one prison leader is taking on solitary, from Maine to NYC |
| By northcountrypublicradio.org |
| Published: 08/21/2015 |
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Joseph Ponte is one New York prison official championing prison reform, not only in New York but all over the country. He is the New York City Corrections Commissioner and is seen as one of leading prison reformers in the country. When Ponte was the head of Maine’s Corrections Department, he used to spend a lot of time walking around his prisons. He’d walk up and down the halls, talk to inmates, check in with guards. On one of those walks in a solitary housing unit, he had a chat with a corrections officer. He still thinks about how the officer responded when asked, "how's it going today?" "How well do you think its goin’ when the best thing that could happen in the course of the day is nothing?" What this officer had come to define as success amounted to keeping inmates quiet. For Ponte, who’s 68 and worked in some of the country’s toughest prisons since he was 22, that hit a nerve. Read More. |
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