Stan Bates:  

Life after High School in Springfield, Oregon included going into the U.S. Air Force for 7 1/2 years and being stationed in Texas, Japan, and Maryland. After my military service, I went to the University of Arizona where I graduated With Distinction and finished all the course work for a Masters of Arts in Management degree from the University of Phoenix. I ran a community based volunteer organization known as Alternatives to Incarceration in Tucson prior to starting a career in Correctional Administration. I have subsequently retired from the State of Arizona Department of Corrections after 25 plus years working as a Prison Warden(all custody levels and types of adult male and female prisoners) and as the Assistant Director for Administrative Services(budget, payroll, purchasing, contracts, construction, maintenance, food service,security, communications, and information technology). I was home doing honey do's for 20 days and was going Stir Crazy (Yes, I worked at the Florence, Arizona prison where that movie was filmed)so my wife convinced me to find another job to keep me busy. Actually, I think she knew that since she was retiring herself that it would be in our best interest if only one of us was home 24/7/365. So, based upon her sage advice, I took another State of Arizona job but in another retirement plan working on the grounds of the State Hospital. I was the Chief of Security and was responsible for the security of the Hospital in all three major components of the Hospital including those patients with Civil commitments, patients with Forensic commitments as well as those sexually violent persons committed to the Hospital following the completion of their prison sentences. Most of t...Expand for more