Field Services Administrator Dawn Sides retiring after 35 year with Wyoming Dept. of Corrections

Subject Providers Administrator Daybreak Sides will retire in July. (WDOC)

CASPER, Wyo. — A subject providers administrator with the Wyoming Division of Corrections will probably be retiring on July 5 after 35 years of service with the company.

Daybreak Sides, a local of Lusk, started her profession on July 3, 1987 as a correctional officer on the Wyoming Girls’s Heart, in response to the WDOC. Sides was promoted to corporal in 1988 on the finish of her probationary interval and proceeded to rise via the WDOC’s ranks as much as affiliate warden whereas working on the Wyoming Girls’s Heart.

She was then appointed as warden of the Wyoming Honor Farm in 2004 earlier than being appointed as Jail Division deputy administrator in 2008. Sides grew to become the sphere providers administrator in 2011.

Awards, certifications and recognitions Sides acquired throughout her profession included the next, in response to the WDOC:

• ACA’s Greatest within the Enterprise Award within the June 2009 Corrections In the present day Journal
• Acquired the Licensed Corrections Government certification in 2009 and maintained that certification till two years in the past.
• Appointed to the Governor’s Impair Driving Council in 2012
• Accomplished the Wyoming Legislation Enforcement’s First Line Supervision in 2016 and Getting ready for Management the comply with 12 months
• POST licensed teacher for Wyoming for a number of years on Mission, Imaginative and prescient and Values
• Nationwide Institute of Corrections (NIC) Safety Audit coaching
• Government Coaching for New Wardens through NIC
• Senior-Degree Management Coaching through NIC• Public and Media Relations through NIC
• Operational Observe in Girls’s Jail through NIC
• Licensed Custody & Management Teacher via WLEA early in profession

“This was only a job after I began in Lusk, it had nice advantages and respectable pay,” Sides mentioned within the press launch. “It quickly changed into a profession for me.”

“WDOC has lots of nice workers and it’s been a privilege to get to do this kind of work for so long as I’ve.  I’ve realized as a lot from others or most likely greater than they ever did from me.  I hope I’ve left my footprint within the sand for others to construct upon.  It’s been a trip.  Now it’s time to tug up my boot straps, as my dad used to say, and see what else is on the market.”

WDOC Director Daniel Shannon thanked Sides for her work.

“I’ve recognized, labored with, revered, sought her steerage and admired Administrator Sides for a few years and her retirement is bitter candy for the Division,” Shannon mentioned within the launch. “She is properly deserving of this event but will probably be tremendously missed.”