A corrections expert witness with more than 20 years of experience in federal correctional operations and institutional security, this expert specializes in inmate management, correctional security procedures, use of force and deadly force, prisoner transportation, gang management, Special Housing Unit operations, inmate communications, correctional health care issues, and prison culture analysis. The expert has more than 5 years of experience providing consultations, deposition testimony, courtroom testimony, and litigation support in matters involving inmate standards of care, conditions of confinement, prison homicide investigations, inmate assaults, suicides, deaths in custody, correctional staffing practices, correctional accreditation and compliance review issues, and Bureau of Prisons policy interpretation.

Professional experience includes 20 years with the Federal Bureau of Prisons serving in progressively advanced operational and leadership positions including correctional officer, lieutenant, captain, and associate warden assignments at administrative, medium-security, detention, and high-security federal facilities throughout the southern United States. Responsibilities included oversight of institutional safety, operational security, emergency response coordination, policy implementation, accreditation preparation, institutional character profile reviews, internal investigations, mortality reviews, and institutional audits. The expert also served as on-scene commander during inmate disturbances and riots, participated in after-action and mortality review teams, and conducted investigations involving assaults, homicides, staff misconduct, and criminal activity in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Marshals Service, Office of Inspector General, and Federal Bureau of Prisons Internal Affairs.

Extensive detention oversight, instructional, and specialized operational experience includes Office of Detention and Oversight audits for Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities utilizing Performance Based National Detention Standards. Audit responsibilities involved evaluation of use of force and restraint procedures, Special Management Unit operations, detainee classification systems, food service operations, staff-detainee communication, and sexual abuse prevention and intervention compliance. The expert is also certified as a Prison Rape Elimination Act Auditor for adult correctional facilities and has completed advanced training involving correctional leadership, investigative supervision, disciplinary hearing procedures, hostage survival, crisis prevention, emergency management, prisoner transportation, correctional ethics, crime scene management, suicide assessment, and inmate behavioral management.

Instructional responsibilities have included service as a Federal Bureau of Prisons instructor for terrorism awareness, first responder operations, institutional security procedures, report writing, use of force techniques, deadly force procedures, ethics, and nonviolent crisis intervention. Specialized operational assignments included Disturbance Control Squad leadership, Special Operations Response Team leadership and command, and institutional emergency response functions. Additional professional activities have included continuing legal education presentations addressing prison investigative processes, inmate behavior, inmate classification, prison gang influence, and correctional investigative procedures. Professional memberships include the American Correctional Association, the Louisiana Sheriffs’ Honorary Membership Program, and the Louisiana Correctional Association.