I suppose it’s only fitting that former Milwaukee County House of Corrections Superintendent Ron Malone’s ID card and badge turned up in a toilet at the HOC last week, considering it could be said his career’s in the toilet as well. Malone has done a terrible job as Superintendent at the HOC, resulting in the HOC being rebuked in a federal report for being “marred by security lapses, bad management, poor employee morale and crowded conditions.”
As a former employee of the House of Corrections, I can attest to the difficult (that’s probably putting it mildly) working conditions for security staff at the HOC. Employee morale was a problem for the duration of my time at the HOC, as was a lack of adequate staffing, which resulted in tremendous amounts of overtime for staff. In fact, I distinctly remember working 27 of the 30 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas one year, and I was always amazed that more wasn’t done in the nearly 8 years since I worked at the HOC to alleviate the problem. I was on my way out the door at the HOC when Ron Malone was hired as Superintendent, and I can remember my hope that as a former manager within the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, Malone would bring the fresh perspective that would be necessary to change the culture and environment at the HOC. Alas, it seems Ron Malone was simply content to collect his fat County paycheck without doing much to change things at the HOC, and so I’m not shocked he was demoted and placed under Sheriff Clarke’s authority.
Although to be honest, I’m not sure Sheriff David Clarke’s the kind of leader the HOC needs to change the culture, because he’s not exactly a leader that inspires those who work under him. If anything, Clarke will tighten up security at the HOC, but I don’t see much of a culture change, and until that happens, the HOC will always have problems it has now.
H/T to capper.
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