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 while serving in multiple leadership positions, with duties and responsibilities at the highest administrative levels of government within the New York Department of Correction. I have served as a subject matter expert for both uniformed and civilian personnel of 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 toward a fairer and more effective criminal justice system. As a detail-oriented professional, I have 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 delivered 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 curiae, a neutral third-party consultant, or a court-appointed receiver when a jurisdiction is compelled to reform its jail system through receivership after a system has been found to systematically deprive people of their constitutional rights. This indifference can encompass both institutionalized persons and workforce personnel. These court-ordered reforms serve to reconstitute practical and constitutional correctional workforce operationalization standards in response to conditions of staffing, budgetary, and leadership gross mismanagement. In such a capacity, regulatory crises are addressed through orchestration and governance to achieve jurisdictional compliance and efficacy in management standards and 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 encountered 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 the 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 and 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.