From
Capitol Report New Mexico.com -
Gregg Marcantel has a big job. He not only has to run a state agency but he has to try to turn around a department that has a reputation for having the most infighting and the lowest morale in the state. There has been plenty of controversy surrounding the
New Mexico Corrections Department in recent years. Just a few months ago, the previous secretary,
Lupe Martinez, resigned after her live-in boyfriend shot a rattlesnake on Corrections property and was later accused of tampering with evidence. (The warden and the warden’s family live on state prison property.) And just this past weekend,
Deborah Baker of the Albuquerque Journal reported how former Corrections secretary Joe Williams is now working in Florida for the
GEO Group, Inc., a private prison company that oversees facilities in Hobbs, Clayton and Santa Rosa. It’s the same company some state lawmakers accused Williams of going easy on after GEO faced fines for understaffing. GEO which used to be part of the
Wackenhut corporation also donated to a number of campaigns of former Gov.
Bill Richardson, who had appointed Williams. Into all this steps Marcantel, who served in the Marine Corps in his younger days and may need all of that hard-nosed training to get the department moving in the same direction.
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Gregg Marcantel trying to change a culture
From Capitol Report New Mexico.com - Gregg Marcantel has a big job. He not only has to run a state agency but he has to try to turn around a department that has a reputation for having the most infighting and the lowest morale in the state. There has been plenty of controversy surrounding the New Mexico Corrections Department in recent years. Just a few months ago, the previous secretary, Lupe Martinez, resigned after her live-in boyfriend shot a rattlesnake on Corrections property and was later accused of tampering with evidence. (The warden and the warden’s family live on state prison property.) And just this past weekend, Deborah Baker of the Albuquerque Journal reported how former Corrections secretary Joe Williams is now working in Florida for the GEO Group, Inc., a private prison company that oversees facilities in Hobbs, Clayton and Santa Rosa. It’s the same company some state lawmakers accused Williams of going easy on after GEO faced fines for understaffing. GEO which used to be part of the Wackenhut corporation also donated to a number of campaigns of former Gov. Bill Richardson, who had appointed Williams. Into all this steps Marcantel, who served in the Marine Corps in his younger days and may need all of that hard-nosed training to get the department moving in the same direction. Read more
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