We need more bridges | Anthony Annucci | TED Goes to Prison at Coxsackie Correctional Facility 2022

Listen to the head of Corrections for New York State talk about the third TED event he has attended at one of his prisons. Anthony J. Annucci was named the Acting Commissioner for the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, effective May 1, 2013. He has been employed with the Department in excess of 37 years, and he started his career in 1984 as Deputy Counsel. He then rose to become Deputy Commissioner and Counsel in 1989, and later Executive Deputy Commissioner in 2007. He devotes time and attention to the Department's use of evidence based programs designed to reduce recidivism through reliance on the risk, needs and responsivity model, with a renewed emphasis upon educational opportunities. In addition, he guides efforts in achieving system-wide accreditation by the American Correctional Association, and in complying with the national Prison Rape Elimination Act standards, while also focusing on the safety of staff, incarcerated individuals, and parolees. Annucci is a member of the American Correctional Association and the Correctional Leaders Association and is a regular lecturer on topics including prison operations and sentencing laws. He has twice been recognized by the New York State Bar Association: once for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Correction and the other for Excellence in Public Service. This past January, he received the prestigious Michael Francke Career Achievement Award from the Correctional Leaders Association, whose membership includes every corrections commissioner in the country.