In attendance representing the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections were Daniel Mowery, veteran’s services unit manager and veteran’s coordinator, and Jessica Fio, drug and alcohol treatment specialist, both working at SCI Houtzdale, a medium-security correctional facility.
Fio and Mowery discussed openings and career paths in both corrections and social work and job stability in each field.
Traveling from Montgomery County, Maryland, Officer Joe Arnold also spent time with one of Professor David Bish’s criminal justice classes, “what I said to the class was, how many people have heard of Montgomery County?
Only one person raised their hand and I look at that as a good thing. If we were doing something wrong, you would have heard about us on the news. … we do a lot of training and I think that’s why. We do things the right way.”