Jack T. Donson
Director
of Case Management & Programs
Jack Donson is
FedCURE's Director of Case Management & Programs. His duties include
representing FedCURE and its advocacy. Monitoring and analyzing BOP Case
Management & Programs activity for compliance with statutory law, identify
issues impacting people incarcerated in the federal prison system, on post
conviction supervision and the safety of the public, that require policy and
or legislative reform.
Jack brings a wealth
of working knowledge and experiences to FedCURE from his twenty-three (23)
years of employment with the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons,
from where he retired in the summer of 2011. During that time, he held
positions as a Correctional Treatment Specialist, Case Management Coordinator
and Unit Manager.
Jack's institutional
duty experiences are diverse and include: Federal Prison Camp (minimum
custody), Federal Correctional Institution (low and medium custody),
Administrative and Witness Security (WITSEC) Units. Jack also had duty
assignments and responsibilities in the Philadelphia Regional Office and the
New York City Community Corrections Office.
During his tenure,
Jack worked with BOP Program Review Division teams auditing facilities
throughout the Northeast region. Served on the bureau's Hostage Negotiations
Team; and as annual training instructor and staff mentor for over twenty (20)
years, receiving two national awards: The Correctional Treatment Specialist
of the Year and Excellence in Community Corrections and Detention Center
Operations.
Donson participated in
writing work groups, crafting national policy issues on Security Designation
and Custody Classification Manual, the Protective Custody Unit Manual; and the
work group writing the bureau's first policy on pretrial detention.
Prior to his
employment with DOJ/BOP, he was a parole officer in the State of Pennsylvania
where he supervised a caseload and wrote pre-sentence reports. Jack has a
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology/Anthropology and a Master of Science in Criminal
Justice with a concentration in Public Administration. He has an Honorable
Discharge from the US Army where he served as a Military Policeman and Stinger
Missile Gunner.
Aside from his duties
at FedCURE, Jack is the operating owner of a private consulting company; and
serves on the Corrections Committees of the NACDL and ABA. He was recently
hired as an adjunct professor for Marywood University, Scranton, PA and will
begin teaching in the spring of 2013.
Contact Jack
Donson at: J.Donson@FedCURE.org