Green Bay native Joe Verdegan spent nearly 27 years working the front lines as an officer at Green Bay Correctional Institution in Allouez, Wisconsin, which one of three maximum-security prisons located in Wisconsin.  Verdegan provides a most unique perspective of the often unpredictable and volatile world where an officer can earn his or her salary in less than 30 seconds responding to everything from gang-related brawls, staff assaults, suicide and escape attempts and everything in between.

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