A broken promise

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Recent events dating back to 2009 when Governor Brewer appointed an interim director to run the Arizona Department of Corrections, have illustrated a severely broken system in the way Arizona runs their prisons. There are no doubts that the current director has found himself in hot water more than once over the controversies that exist in his agency as well as in the public view with his management style and strategies supervising private prisons on contract  with the state. It appears the time has come for him to seek the help of another corrections expert to determine the correct strategies and the appropriate approaches on how to run the prison system.

Charles L. Ryan, the current director must have been desperate to seek the help of his former boss and mentor who currently acts as a consultant for a private prison contractor. He must have realized that this man can help determine direction, overcome obstacles and resolve complex matters with the precision of a surgeon cutting on a cadaver. In a way, its exactly the way the governor wanted it to be when the former director left and the void had to be filled with someone who knew the prison system and its necessary. Thus a former love affair is rekindled and reconnected to operate prisons with a goal of privatizing the public prisons to the competition. I am sure when its all said and done, this is something that Director Ryan wanted to do all along for the past couple of years but didn’t have the opportunity to sneak the consultant in without criticism. Most likely not to reveal or announce such a secret partnership or close personal friendship they meet often but depart separately in different vehicles. Looking at the shadow’s resume, it is quite impressive and one could say much better than the current director in place. Perhaps he is the de facto director and blessed by the governor’s office that requires strict control on media coverage, institutional gossip and failures and public opinion.

The shadow has been back from Iraq for a while now and perhaps took a silent role in the background to do some stealthy reconnaissance for the director as his scouting skills are sharp and able to find qualified candidates to assist the director with his management team selection. For sure, he has sent a pocketful of “players” the director’s way in the past several years to bolster the team to function as a unified work crew. Actively seeking employment with the private prison contractors as a consultant, he landed one that is amidst one of the most damaging scandals in Arizona prison history, the Kingman escape. He has been seen at community meetings sitting among the top officials of the department and chatting with them on a very personal basis. It is unknown whether or not his role is limited exclusively to consulting the private prison contractor or if it has been unofficially extended to include Arizona public prisons.

Being a consultant up there in the best seats in the house is a privileged position and with good reason to suspect who is really running the prisons. Is it Charles L. Ryan or is the man in the shadows. Breaking tradition to operate the prisons and prevent privatization of public prisons as promised to his staff, it appears Director Ryan is looking internally for help to continue his control of his agency with the help of an unrestricted friend, consultant and free agent in prison practices.