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Jerry Elmblad, A Plant Guy

Vital Stats
Name: Jerry Elmblad
Age: 55
Field: Facilities, physical plant and energy management
Title: Administrative Manager
Agency: Michigan Department of Corrections
Time Served: 25 years

Jerry Elmblad’s office at the Michigan Department of Corrections in Lansing is littered with papers and publications on cutting-edge technologies.

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Trade Files: Sprung

Sprung Instant Structures Inc. is a member of the Sprung Group of Companies, which was established in 1887 as a manufacturer of chuck wagon covers, teepees and other shelters. A pioneer in engineered structures, Sprung patented stressed-membrane technology, which utilizes a non-corroding aluminum substructure overlaid with architectural membrane panels placed under high tension.

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The Case for Private Prisons

Over the next decade, the private sector’s share of inmates within the U.S. could increase to 11 percent from its current level of 8 percent. This equates to roughly 5 percent to 7 percent annual inmate growth over that time.
There are a confluence of events driving what should be a multi-year acceleration of private sector inmate growth:

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Trendspotting

Happy New Year! It’s hard to imagine that we were so concerned about Y2K and the simultaneous meltdown of global ATMs a decade ago when now it’s what is not in the bank’s vaults that seems to be of greater concern.
A lot of things have changed in the last 10 years — especially economic connectivity — but at the same time, human conflict is no less prolific than a decade, a century or even a millennium ago. 

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Ask the Expert: Accurate Assessment

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Spotlight: Prison Gray

Photos courtesy of NYDOCS

FISHKILL, N.Y. — From coast to coast and border to border, corrections officials must face the prospect of housing ever-growing numbers of older inmates and providing for their special needs.

The United States must deal with the looming reality of an en masse graying of society, as approximately 76 million baby boomers begin to turn 65 years old. Boomers — born between the mid 1940s and mid 1960s — account for almost 30 percent of the U.S. population.

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Trendspotting: The Footprints of David Parrish

Carter

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