Menu
Sign In Pricing Add Podcast
Podcast Image

Death County, PA

Trust Exercise | 7

Tue, 27 May 2025

Description

How do you rebuild trust in a broken system? Justin Douglas and Lamont Jones the impact they've been able to make so far – and the work that lies ahead.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Audio
Transcription

What is the significance of de-escalation in prisons?

1139.36 - 1149.082 Joshua Vaughn (Narrator/Reporter)

And I think our prison has been a place where there's been a lack of transparency for so long that even when people see transparency, they don't trust it. They don't trust that it's transparent.

0

1149.182 - 1169.568 Joshua Vaughn (Narrator/Reporter)

They trust that like, okay, now you're being more open, but maybe you've just changed the facts or maybe you've massaged them or maybe, you know, and I respond to that with an understanding of you can't lie to people for so long. And then The moment you start telling them the truth, expect them to respond appropriately. You've got to earn trust. It's not just given to you.

0

1170.568 - 1218.786 Justin Douglas

One person in Dauphin County who's eroded public trust? County Coroner Graham Hetrick. He's up for reelection this year. Will he be voted into office for a 10th term? Or will the public finally hold him accountable? Back in March, Graham Hetrick was in the hot seat. The Boys and Girls Club of Harrisburg opened up their gymnasium to host a pre-election public forum.

0

1219.727 - 1232.836 Justin Douglas

Voters were invited to ask questions to candidates in Dauphin County elections. More than one community member asked Graham about his work on cases at DCP and his opinion on prime care.

0

1233.937 - 1239.778 Warden Gregory Briggs

My job is to be independent of it and say this is exactly what the evidence is.

1240.878 - 1259.905 Justin Douglas

And it's up to those people who run that prison to say, well, we shouldn't have somebody having hypothermia. That's not my job. Graham's campaign, thoughts on the likelihood that Graham will lose or thoughts that he will stay in office?

1260.485 - 1265.15 Joshua Vaughn (Narrator/Reporter)

Are you just asking me to prognosticate whether or not he's going to, like, if I was betting man, what I would bet?

1265.17 - 1266.051 Justin Douglas

What's your thoughts are, yeah.

1266.391 - 1285.562 Joshua Vaughn (Narrator/Reporter)

I mean, the man's got a bobblehead. He's very well known in that region. A lot of people like him. My Dedrick reaction would say, I'm betting on Graham. At the same time, that would have been everyone's knee-jerk reaction when I announced I was running for commissioner. So, you know, I was a coach for basketball.

Comments

There are no comments yet.

Please log in to write the first comment.