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Tier Talk: What advice would you give someone who is entering corrections?

Listen in as we answer questions and prepare our future CO’S by sharing with them our career experiences


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What advice would you give someone who is entering the field of corrections?

Today on Tier Talk, Anthony Gangi sits down with Keith Hellwig and shares with us the good advice needed for those who enter the world of corrections. Listen in as we answer questions and prepare our future COs by sharing with them our career experiences.

Keith Hellwig has served in law enforcement and corrections for more than 35 years with county and state agencies, eventually rising to the rank of captain. He worked in three correction facilities and is currently a line captain at a state maximum security facility after a brief stint of retirement. Keith has been on hostage extraction teams, emergency response units, cell extraction teams and hostage negotiation teams, and he led a sniper team. He taught hostage survival skills and communications techniques at the Corrections Training Academy. Although No Place Like Home is his first book, Keith has published work in newspapers and professional publications. He and his wife have been married for more than 35 years and have two daughters and two granddaughters.

Tier Talk, hosted by Corrections1 columnist Anthony Gangi, features interviews with industry experts, conversations about hot topics and pressing issues, and offers lessons to new staff and old about the evolving and ever-changing field of corrections.
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