Gregory Fizer

I have worked in the field of corrections for forty-five years.  I have been a correctional administrator (warden - deputy warden)) for thirty of those years.  My correctional experience includes working in juvenile probation, adult and juvenile correctional institutions, and a community release center with parolees.  I have worked at the county, state, federal, and private prison level of correctional organizations.  I have worked with every custody level, both genders, and all the special offender populations. I retired from state service with the the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry in 2016.  I then served as the assistant warden of programs at the Red Rock Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona until August 2023.  At that time, I relocated to Indiana to serve as the warden of the Heritage Trail Correctional Facility. I am very passionate about providing meaningful programs to incarcerated offenders as a means to assist them make sustainable transformations and improve their opportunities for success upon return to the community.  

 My involvement in academic studies while serving as a correctional administrator helped me to realize the importance and value of education, research, and the collaborative engagement of correctional practitioners and local universities.  As a complex warden, I met with professors from the School Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University (ASU) and discussed possible collaborative projects that would be beneficial to the school, prison, and inmates.  The results were internships, program evaluations, the initiation of an Inside-Out Program, conference work at the National Institute of Justice, and opening an opportunity for project work awarded to ASU through the National Institute of Justice.  

I grew up in Indiana, but I have lived most of my adult life in Arizona.   I am a U.S. Air Force veteran.