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Keith Watters

Wartburg,TN

Summary

Experienced Correctional Captain with solid 18 year background in corrections and leadership talents. Understands and professionally applies regulations to manage inmate populations and maintain safety. Skilled in training and motivating staff to meet requirements.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Correctional Captain

MCCC
Wartburg, TN
04.2021 - Current
  • Ensure Daily operations of 3rd shift are done in a timely and orderly manner. Managed the daily roster to ensure all critical post are filled. Approve and disapprove leave slips on a daily and weekly rosters. Keep attendance and Draft records are kept up to date and accurate. Do daily rounds to all post to ensuring all staff are abiding to post orders and policies. Monitoring the inmate counts at the 1030 pm and 5:00 am count times are done by TDOC policies

Administrative Lieutenant

MCCC
Wartburg, TN
12.2015 - 04.2021
  • Ensure the daily operations of Day shift staff are done in a timely and orderly manner. Assign staff to post to balance the roster. Ensure the Master Roster is up to date,and the daily roster are given to the shift OIC,s weekly in timely manner. Sign and inspect all monthly gate passes for the 27 annex inmate work crews. Update all MCCC post orders an ensure they are on all post. Reasonable for the upkeep and maintenance of the grounds of MCCC to ensure that it is secure and safe. Approve and disapprove tools that will be used in the institution. Ensure the MCCC garden is put out in a timely manner and is productive.

Security Threat Group Sergeant

MCCC
Wartburg, TN
03.2014 - 08.2015
  • Interviewed Security Threat Groups at MCCC to confirm them as a member of a STG and there involvement in the groups. Respond to incidents at MCCC to see if there was STG involvement. Updated tattoos and facesheets for inmates at MCCC and inmates arriving off the chain bus at MCCC. Reported to the TDOC Security Threat Group investigator on weekly reports and weekly calls.

Transportation Correctional Corporal

MCCC
Wartburg, TN
09.2007 - 03.2014
  • Transported inmates to court dates in east Tennessee county courthouses, dropped inmates off to county jails. Escorted inmates to doctor appointments , hospitals ,and to surgery . Drove chain buses to exchange inmates with other state prisons. Ensured all maintenance and repairs where done on all state equipment and state vehicles.

Correctional Emergency Response Team

MCCC
Wartburg, TN
09.2007 - 01.2011
  • C.E.R.T member form September 2007 thru January 2011.

Correctional Officer

MCCC
Wartburg, TN
09.2006 - 09.2007
  • Completed intake paperwork, fingerprints and searches. Made rounds at specified intervals and conducted head counts and roll calls. Observed and supervised inmates throughout visits, meal time, recreation, phone calls and showers.

Education

High School Diploma -

Central High School
Wartburg, TN
05-1989

Skills

  • Firearms operations trained
  • Security procedures
  • Pod control
  • Suicide prevention training
  • Inmate transport
  • Job assignments
  • Inmate movement control
  • Body searches
  • * Man Tracking
  • Inspections
  • Crowd control
  • Self-defense techniques

Timeline

Correctional Captain

MCCC
04.2021 - Current

Administrative Lieutenant

MCCC
12.2015 - 04.2021

Security Threat Group Sergeant

MCCC
03.2014 - 08.2015

Transportation Correctional Corporal

MCCC
09.2007 - 03.2014

Correctional Emergency Response Team

MCCC
09.2007 - 01.2011

Correctional Officer

MCCC
09.2006 - 09.2007

High School Diploma -

Central High School
Keith Watters