John Aldi

Instructor

John Aldi is a twenty-two-year veteran with the Connecticut Department of Correction. He started his career as a Correctional Officer and has held the position of Correctional Treatment Officer, Correctional Counselor / Program Coordinator in the department's Close Custody Security Risk Group Unit and Counselor Supervisor, tasked as a Unit Manager. He currently serves as the Connecticut Department of Correction's Statewide Security Risk Group Coordinator in the department's Security Division. In this vital role he promotes the coordination of security risk group intelligence sharing throughout the Department of Correction and across criminal justice and policing agencies throughout the state.

Training on new trends and identifiers for Security Risk Groups is an integral part of the Correction’s Security Divisions mission. John has been a trainer for the Department of Correction's Pre-Service Classes, Department of Correction's New Supervisor training, Parole Officer training, local/state law enforcement, community/school groups and training the department's executive management team.

John has been a presenter at the Department of Justice's Correctional Intel regional meetings, he has testified on the status of gangs in Connecticut before the state legislature's Commission on Children. He has worked with the National Institute of Corrections in Mississippi, Massachusetts, Indiana, Nevada and the Washington State Department of Corrections on developing strategies for dealing with their prison gangs as well as performing assessments of their security risk group management systems.

John is a graduate of the Connecticut Criminal Justice Command Institute and he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Justice and Law Administration from Western Connecticut State University.