Public Safety Correction Management Consultant

William D. Colon is a proven forward-thinking correction management consultant with over 26 years of field experience in law enforcement security operations. My dedication to enhancing public safety standards has consistently provided efficacy and efficiency in its administration. As a critical thinker, I have demonstrated due diligence and resilience in the face of adversity as I served in multiple leadership positions, with duties & responsibilities at the highest administrative levels of government within the New York Department of Correction. Serving as a subject matter expert for both uniform & civilian personnel in all ranks, including executive-level leadership positions in workforce operationalization, cost engineering, and governance. I have worked with various clients in a professional capacity by providing expert advice to organizations, such as the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association Inc. within the Office of Collective Bargaining, and pro bono services to non-profit organizations such as Recidiviz, whose missions are to accelerate progress towards a more fair and effective criminal justice system. As a detail-oriented professional, I also served as an item writer for promotional examinations to the rank of Assistant Deputy Warden, provided pre-promotional training for newly promoted Deputy Wardens, and provided training for every rank within the chain of command up to the highest executive level. 

As a subject matter expert, I bring a unique perspective to serve as an amicus curia, a neutral third-party consultant, or a court-appointed receiver when a jurisdiction is compelled to reform its jail system through receivership when a system has been found to deprive people of their constitutional rights systematically. An indifference that can encompass institutionalized persons and workforce personnel. These court-ordered reforms serve to reconstitute practical and constitutional correctional workforce operationalization standards from conditions of staffing, budgetary, and leadership gross mismanagement. In such capacity, regulatory crises are addressed in orchestration and governance to achieve jurisdictional compliance and efficacy in management standards to establish adequate mandatory operational conditions as codified by law within the American criminal justice system.

The U.S. Constitution is the cornerstone document codifying our nation's sovereignty, uniting its citizens as members of a whole, and vesting the union's power in the people.  

As a nation, we have and will continue to encounter outstanding leadership. However, this reality exists at all levels of government, where a leader’s competency may not be comprehensive enough to capture the full breadth and complexity of matters at hand. In these instances, one would hope that wisdom prevails over personal selfishness and tribalistic political dissension to achieve meaningful discourse toward a fair, effective criminal justice system.

Ethical progress in leadership ensures that legitimate government authorities, in service to the people, adhere to the enduring principles of truth.