Christopher A. Pirolli
Qualifications
Professional Experience
Bucks County Department of Corrections
Extensive knowledge and capability in the field of corrections; advancing from Correctional Officer to Director of Corrections.
Director of Corrections: 2017 to 2021
Acting Director of Corrections: 2011, and February 2017
Deputy Director of Operations: 2004 to 2017
Lieutenant: 2002-2004
Sergeant: 1986-2002
Officer - Food Service: 1982-1986
38 years’ experience at Bucks County Department of Corrections has given me a progressive and broad range of competency in the field, including oversight of divisional departments, special projects management and contracted services includes responsibility for the following correctional functions:
Security and security systems control.
Custody functions and custody/offender problem solving.
Compliance with American Correctional Association and Pennsylvania Title 37 Regulations.
Compliance with National Commission of Correctional Health Care Standards.
Finance and budgetary oversight including bids, RFPs, and capital planning.
Coordination and oversight of essential services including Food Service, Maintenance, Sanitation, Laundry and Warehouse.
Inmate health services, HVAC controls, food services procurement and staff uniforms contract administration.
Offender telephone and cable contract, and commissary contract administration.
Promotion of new and innovative correctional programming and objectives.
Implementation of Unit Management.
Offender treatment and counseling advanced programing including the initiation of vocational training.
Long range planning for programming, technology, facilities, and operations.
Reception, Records, Offender Property, Housing and Health Program enhancement.
Liaison to and Coordination with Bucks County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Departments and Agencies
Alternative Incarceration Analyses such as Minimum Security, Work Release, House Arrest.
Coordination of management team to supervise departmental daily activities.
Staff Issues including union contracts: hiring, grievances, arbitrations, terminations.
Implementation and supervision of timekeeping systems (Kronos/Telestaff).
EDUCATION, Leadership Activities, and Memberships
Bucks County Community College, AA Degree Management 1992
Pennsylvania County Corrections Association, Membership, Conferences and Seminars
Certified Jail Management
Relevant Issues in Jails
Leading in Tough Times
Pregnant Females - Care Required during Incarceration
Act 81, Act 22, Labor Management
Designer Drugs, Excited Delirium, Mental Health Re-entry
The Expanded Use of Opiates and Synthetics
PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) Awareness
PREA and Unclothed Body Searches
Security Threat Group (STG) Recognition and Response
Right Wing Extremism Focusing on Sovereign Citizens
Crisis De-Escalation
Negotiating with Difficult People
Inmate Welfare Fund Usage
Jail Administrators Professional Seminars and Conferences
County Commissioners Association: Prison Risk Management Workshop
Pennsylvania Justice Network, JNET Certified
Bucks County Police Training Center
Suicide Prevention –QPR Question Persuade Refer
Hostage Survival
PREA
Weapons Re-Certification
Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing Seminar: Revised Sentencing Guidelines in Pennsylvania
Honeywell: Certification for Security Systems, DVM and HVAC Systems, 2010 to 2016
National Commission on Correctional Health Care: Mental Health, Communicable Diseases, HIV, MRSA, TB
R.W. Powitz & Associates, P.C.: Forensic Institutional Environmental and Public Health, 2001 to 2021
National Restaurant Association: Serv-Safe Certification
Kronos Implementation Leader
Timekeeping and Absence Management
Project Team Fundamentals Train the Trainer, 6 CPE credits
Publications
Corrections Managers’ Report: June/July 2020: 26(1): Some Practical Public and Environmental Health Strategies and Practices to Prevent Respirable Disease Epidemics in Jails
