Word: warden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, the security staff doesn't feel Whitley favors or coddles prisoners. "With him you'll get the closest thing to a fair shake," says Michael Gunnells, the assistant warden in charge of security. A year ago, for instance, at Camp J -- home to Angola's incorrigibles -- staff morale had bottomed out in a storm of hurled food, spit and excrement. Whitley responded with a strict set of disincentives. Curse a guard, forfeit canteen privileges. Throw a meal tray, lose your radio. "The burden is on prisoners," says Captain Davy Kelone. "It drives them crazy." That it does. Camp...
...says, "is provide the opportunity." Does he believe a person can really change? "Sure, I've seen it. They've aged. They've matured. They've shown they can handle their emotions." Would he give some of them a second chance? "Sure." Coaxed, the warden allows that there are "a couple hundred" he could set free tomorrow without reservation...
...University, he tried and failed to secure an appointment to the state police. Disappointed, he settled for a corrections job. After nine years at Angola, he moved to Louisiana's Hunt Correctional Center, where in 1983 he became The Man. "I never really had a desire to be a warden," he says. "I just kept being promoted up." (Sybil, his wife of 17 years, counters, "He says he's not ambitious. I say he is.") After retiring from the civil service in 1989, he became warden of a privately run prison in Texas. When the call came from Louisiana asking...
When Whitley took the wardenship, he signed on for three years. Extending his stay, he says, depends on how much he feels he can accomplish. It is clear Whitley wants more: more medical, culinary and maintenance staff, a bigger hospital, more classroom space. Like every other warden in America, though, he runs up against budget limitations. "This is shortsighted," he says. "What you send out of prisons is going to reflect what you had in them." If that includes the warden, Angola's graduates are now just a little more likely to come out fair, decent, straight up. Just like...