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Carl Toersbijns
Carl Toersbijns (retired) has worked in corrections for over twenty-five years. He held positions of a correctional officer I, II, III (captain), chief of security for a mental hea...view moreCarl Toersbijns (retired) has worked in corrections for over twenty-five years. He held positions of a correctional officer I, II, III (captain), chief of security for a mental health treatment center, program director, associate warden, deputy warden of administration and operation in both the New Mexico and Arizona Department of Corrections.
He is an experienced prison professional and specializes in consulting and developing strategic plans for sound correctional practices, mental health treatment, security threat groups, and training and staff development. Carl is currently resident in Riverside County, California, but calls Mesa, Arizona, home.
As an author, Carl has published three books in the Wasted Honor Trilogy that includes Wasted Honor I, Wasted Honor II, Wasted Honor / Gorilla Justice as well as written semiprofessional correctional blogs on Corrections.Com and guest writer for Yahoo.
These books are insightful references to prison management procedures, practices, politics, and cultural diversity issues related to staff-inmate relationships and administrative decision making. He currently serves as a vice president of Law Enforcement Officers Advocacy Council and also serves on the advisory board of David’s Hope Inc.
Carl’s prison philosophy is all about the safety of the public, staff, and inmates. “I believe my strongest quality is that I create strategies that are practical, functional, and cost effective.”
Experience / consultant / advocacy and prison reforms 2005–2014
Prepared, created and provided written summaries or narratives of case by case situations and made assessments accordingly to rule of law, policies, and procedures as well as correctional best practices. In conjunction with David’s Hope, a mental health advocate, I drafted operational standards and procedures for the seriously mentally ill from intake to housing to operational concerns leading to treatment, compliance with medication, multidisciplinary team decisions, housing, individual treatment plans, incentives, self-studies, and stabilization / therapeutic environmental conditions.
Arizona Department of Corrections June 2005–April 2010
Facilitated a safe and secure prison environment on behalf of the complex warden and carried out duties and responsibilities assigned and identified according to policy and procedures, administrative directives, and routine and emergency operational issues based on the main focus of public safety, staff safety, and an orderly prison environment. Employed with the Arizona Department of Corrections Strength in investigations, report writing, interviews and interrogations, internal affairs and employee misconduct reviews. Loss control assessments. Develop lesson plans, instructor for instructor trainer. Strong computer skills and administrative skills to perform special staff safety projects with deadlines and citations or references.
New Mexico Corrections Department Deputy Warden Operations September 1985–May 2005
Contributed to the overall success of a sound correctional team that operated an adult men prison according to rule of law, policies, and procedures and best practices developed by accreditation and compliance standards.
Organizations:
Arizona Gang Investigators Association Associate, member since April 2014
Present additional organizations LEOAC vice president Yahoo Associated Content writer David’s Hope Inc. volunteer advisory board Correctional Officers Brotherhood (Facebook) administrator Corrections.Com writer. Volunteer experience and causes sentencing reforms.
David’s Hope Inc. October 2011–January 2013
Civil Rights and Social Action Worked on community related topics involving the seriously mentally ill persons in our community and the criminal justice system in areas of sentencing, programing, adjustment, and treatment opportunities. Skills-based volunteering (pro Bono consulting)
Causes Carl cares about:
—human rights
—animal welfare
—children
—civil rights and social actionview less