Tanga R. Payne
White Plains
Summary
Experienced with maintaining security and order within correctional facilities. Utilizes conflict resolution and interpersonal skills to manage inmate behavior effectively. Strong understanding of regulatory compliance and teamwork in high-pressure environments.
Corrections professional committed to high standards and achieving results. Extensive experience in maintaining security, managing inmate behavior, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Known for strong team collaboration and adaptability in dynamic settings. Excellent communication and problem-solving skills valued by employers.
Professional with strong background in maintaining safety and security in correctional facilities. Proven ability to manage challenging situations with calm and assertive approach. Skilled in conflict resolution, surveillance, and enforcing regulations. Known for reliability, adaptability, and effective teamwork in high-pressure environments.
Diligent manager with solid background in maintaining security and order within correctional facilities. Proven track record of managing inmate behavior and ensuring compliance with regulations. Demonstrated conflict resolution and interpersonal skills effectively in high-pressure environments.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
Work History
Supervisory Corrections Officer
DC Department of Corrections
06.1997 - Current
- Maintains oversight and responsibility of subordinate staff of over 100 full-time employees. The incumbent conducts employee evaluations, provides training, and makes recommendations for promotions, reassignments, appointments, and disciplinary actions. Performs other related duties as assigned.
- Responsible for the management of the DOC subordinate correctional force and the planning, directing, and administering of the security program of the facility on assigned shifts.
- Oversee the day-to-day warehouse, support services, and basic facilities and maintenance, which include planning, organizing, inventorying, coordinating, and implementing operational activities, assigning appropriate staff and contractors, evaluating their performance, adjusting as determined necessary, and delegating responsibilities to ensure completion and adherence.
- Reviews assignment rosters to ensure 24 hours, seven-day-a-week coverage of all duty posts on any one of three shifts, and equitable assignment rotation in the interest of training and morale.
- Formulates officers’ leave, training, shift rotation, and sign-off-day schedules under the security requirements of the facility.
- Responsible for the department’s fleet of more than fifty vehicles for the transportation of inmates to court, outside medical appointments, etc., and special assignments to the Director.
- Provides direction and deployment of a correctional force, according to shifts and posts, to ensure the safety and security of the facility, maintain the discipline and decorum of inmates, and encourage work production and training.
- May assume charge of emergency or escape procedures and direct such activities until superiors’ arrival. Serves on the facility’s Safety/Security Committee, established to formulate plans and issue regulations for the improvement of safety conditions; the Disciplinary Board, and other committees as assigned.
- Maintains liaison with representatives of other units and service/program areas to facilitate coordination in the execution of the facility’s daily program.
- Works closely with Medical and Mental Health personnel to provide the most appropriate treatment and housings for the mental health population.
- Investigates and resolves grievances that could adversely affect the efficient performance of official duties.
- Conducts extensive investigations on all shifts to detect and eliminate apparent weaknesses in the facility’s physical plant or mode of operation. Inspect correctional duty posts and inmate worksites to ensure that officers remain alert, attentive, and maintain adequate custodial safeguards. Inspect inmate housing units, recreational areas, and worksites to ensure strict adherence to regulations relating to housekeeping and sanitation.
- Investigates actual or potential escapes, riots, strikes, and demonstrations, eliminates all known causative factors that conflict with existing regulations, and prepares complete reports for study by the senior management and other senior officials.
- Conducts thorough investigations of all charges levied against inmates, actual or potential escapes, riots, strikes, and demonstrations. Responds to all issued cell phone calls from subordinates.is required as needed to return to duty and in emergencies.
- Required to use physical exertion involving prolonged walking and standing, restraining prisoners during emergencies, and participating in escape investigations.
- Possess computer skills to complete work-related tasks efficiently.
- Possess the ability to provide leadership and direction in a supervisory capacity and team-based environment, and to secure subordinate staff.
Supervisory Youth Development Representative
Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services
04.2017 - 05.2023
- Serving in a supervisory role, leading initiatives as a key member of the treatment staffing team that develops, enforces, and implements a Rehabilitative program for the court-ordered juvenile population assigned to this secure setting, ensuring all student obligations, such as school attendance and recreational activities, are met.
- Responsible for the entire operational duties of staff (deployment, staff development, payroll, training, etc.) and programming for youth (school attendance, truancy issues, behavioral issues, etc.).
- Conducted frequent security checks to ensure the safety of the unit, residents, and staff.
- Facilitated management meetings to promote accountability for the required conditions of confinement, youth scheduling, record keeping, and documentation, and prepared and submitted payroll.
- Attends regular training and maintains appropriate certifications to include, but not limited to, Safe Crisis Management, Suicide Prevention, and Positive Youth Development, Communicating Non-Defensively, Critical Thinking, and mandatory Management Supervisory Service trainings.
Youth Development Representative
Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services
01.2011 - 04.2017
- Key member of the treatment staffing team that developed, enforces, and implements a Rehabilitative program for the court-ordered juvenile population assigned to this secure setting, ensuring that all student obligations, such as school attendance and recreational activities, are met.
- Evaluates the juvenile population to determine areas of behavior that may require attention and determines the best practice to teach new ways to approach real-life situations healthily and positively.
- Provides youth with secured transportation to and from various destinations, on and off campus.
- Supervises meal distributions and observes youth during meals, ensuring proper behavior and a safe environment.
- Conducts frequent security checks to ensure the safety of the unit, residents, and staff.
- Maintains daily logs of shift activity.
- Accurately always maintains a physical head count of assigned youth.
- Prepares narrative reports on investigations and incidents and presents findings to the supervisor.
- Attends regular training and maintains appropriate certifications, including Safe Crisis Management, Suicide Prevention, and Positive Youth Development, Communicating Non-Defensively, and Critical Thinking.
Education
Master of Science - Criminal Justice Management
Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZBachelor of Arts - Communications
Bowie State University
Bowie, MDSkills
- DC Department of Corrections Laws and Regulations
- First Aid and CPR Certified
- Inmate Movement
- Firearms
- Youth Rehabilitative Program Management
- Crisis Prevention Intervention
- Restraint Techniques
- Knowledge of occupational hazards and safety precautions
- Incident and Investigative Reports
- Investigative Techniques (including collection, assessment, evaluation of records, parole, detainees, employment applicants, and sensitive and complex investigations)
- Verbal communication
- Security procedures
- Emergency response
- Inmate supervision
- De-escalation techniques
- Restraint techniques
- Leadership qualities
Timeline
Supervisory Youth Development Representative
Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services
04.2017 - 05.2023
Youth Development Representative
Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services
01.2011 - 04.2017
Supervisory Corrections Officer
DC Department of Corrections
06.1997 - Current
Bachelor of Arts - Communications
Bowie State University
Master of Science - Criminal Justice Management
Grand Canyon University