California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's video: Inside CDCR: From Cadet to Parole Agent

Last week you met Sgt. Vanessa Melendez as she looked back at her academy days, including chemical agent training. But she wasn't alone during that training – among the cadets alongside her in 2013 was Brandon Lugar, whose CDCR career has taken a different trajectory, this time to the Division of Adult Parole Operations (DAPO). Here, Parole Agent Brandon Lugar shares his journey from a cadet at the Richard A. McGee Correctional Training Center to a correctional officer at California State Prison-Sacramento, to a DAPO parole agent committed to keeping communities safe through effective parole supervision. To learn more about becoming a Correctional Officer, visit https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/por/. Learn more about DAPO at https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/parole/. Have you been enjoying the Inside CDCR videos? This project highlights the staff, volunteers, community partners, programs, and incarcerated men and women that make the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation exceptional. If you have a story we should cover, please email Kristina.Khokhobashvili@cdcr.ca.gov.