Matthew Martel
Matthew Martel, a retired chief deputy warden, has been named interim warden at California Institution for Men in Chino, said spokesman Lt. Glen Pratt.
Warden Aref Fakhoury retired Dec. 30 after a 30-year career with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Mr. Fakhoury, 58, of Rancho Cucamonga is a graduate of Chino Valley Adult School and Chaffey College. He began his career in corrections as a correctional officer at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco in 1978 before transferring to the California State Prison in Los Angeles.
He was a correctional counselor from 1998 to 2002, a correctional administrator and associate warden from 2002 to 2005, and was named chief deputy warden at CIM in 2005.
Mr. Fakhoury was named acting warden in May 2009 after warden Mike Poulos began working as associate director of high security prisons and transitional housing in Sacramento. Mr. Fakhoury was named warden May 14, 2010, by Gov. Schwarzenegger.
The announcement of his move to full-time warden came the same day 50 CIM correctional officers received Medals of Valor for their work during the Aug. 8, 2009, riot that injured more than 250 inmates and destroyed a housing unit. Mr. Fakhoury had been interim warden only three months when the riot erupted.
Mr. Martel has worked for more than 30 years with the Department of Corrections after spending 11 years teaching high school in Buffalo, N.Y.
He retired after 23 years from the U.S. Air Force and is a Desert Storm veteran. He began his career in corrections in 1982 at California Rehabilitation Center in Norco. Mr. Martel worked as a counselor I and II, program administrator and correctional captain.........
6 of 8 paragraphs are about Fakhoury! I thought this was about Martel?
ReplyDeleteWait until the Los Angeles Times get's a hold of this story. Warden at California Institution for Men collecting pension plus a salary. It is not the c/o's salary that is busting the budget but upper management. Let's cut the fat not the line staff.
ReplyDeleteSomething is wrong. 30 yrs Correction plus 23 Airf force. (53 yrs so far). Plus 11 yrs teaching. (64 yrs so far) how old is he?
ReplyDeleteAdding up 64 years of employment if be started working at 18, that makes him 82! Looks pretty good for 82.
Delete90% percent of wardens salery for a pension, plus a wardens payroll check $$$$$$$$ LOL. Previous Warden made out too, he put in enough time to lock in Wardens salery for retirement and then left. Have these guys even said thank you to the tax payers of california LOL The New hire at the bottom of the pay scale walking a level 4 yard is the drain on tax payers LOL
ReplyDeleteYou can serve in the military AND work for CDC! Many of our partners are in that same boat. That's why there is a section in the MOU that relates to deployment!
ReplyDeleteInteresting...........................hope for the best.
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