The Reformatory-Tales from Green Bay's Maximum Security Prison

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. Working inside a maximum-security prison is the furthest thing from any 9-5 job and through his interviews with more than 150 past and current prison employees, Verdegan tells the real-life stories that will make you laugh and cry. Read more