More Than a Warden: A Conversation with LaMonte Cooke

So we got to talk a lot about the past, but I know you're not done yet, because you have been looking forward to the future of a new detention center.

Yes.

And that has been very important to you.

Yes.

So could you tell us why

and where it's at? Okay.

We had looked at doing this for a while.

In fact, we had an initial plan to renovate and expand where we are now.

Yep.

But there were a lot of challenges, the lack of space.

We were trying to work that around, and I think we kind of saw part of it where we were going to put the addition.

We planned out all that.

Fine.

However, what were we going to do when it came time to renovate what we're working in now?

Yeah, because you, I mean, what do you, you have to be able to completely to still operate while you're doing the

renovations.

And so that was the tricky part.

And every time we planned something, and I know, I'm going to say his name because we just talked this morning.

I don't want my name in it, but I'm going to tell it anyhow.

Major Greenwood.

We were meeting on that initially.

Now, Brianna, our captain, Cotman, she's now involved because we're trying to pass that torch on to her, working with her.

She's been really great just getting into that.

She's learned a lot.

But every time we resolved it, then...