Join as we speak to former prison warden Percy Pitzer on his foundation for helping steer kids away from prison with Scholarships. Percy H. Pitzer is the Chief Executive Officer of Creative Corrections LLC and has over 30 years of correctional experience and retired as a warden at the United States Penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas. He is credited with implementing several innovative and advanced prison reform programs which are still utilized by many correctional facilities.
I’m a retired prison Warden interested in getting kids in school rather than jail. We have assisted 190 young adults with scholarships so far.
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Percy H. Pitzer, Co-Founder/President of the Board
Percy H. Pitzer is the Chief Executive Officer of Creative Corrections LLC and has over 30 years of correctional experience and retired as a warden at the United States Penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas. He is credited with implementing several innovative and advanced prison reform programs which are still utilized by many correctional facilities.
Percy has earned national awards in cost reduction and community service. Early on in his career it became obvious to him that a seriously at-risk group of young people were the children of the incarcerated.
Percy and his wife Sununt founded Pitzer Family Education Foundation (PFEF), previously (Creative Corrections Education Foundation- CCEF), and the Foundation received a 501(c) 3 status from the IRS on June 25, 2012. Percy and Sununt Pitzer donated over $1.3 millions of their own money to start and operate the foundation.
Percy also created a program within the foundation to assist individuals on parole with tuition assistance in the southeast Texas area to enroll in a trade course and earn a trade certificate in welding, electrical, pipefitting, scaffold builder, carpentry, instrumentation, or Core safety class. This initiative is to reduce the possibility of individuals returning to prison because they do not possess the skills to obtain employment.
Melissa Bill is a journalist with more than 16 years of experience. She started her professional career at The Miami Herald in Miami, reporting on community news, government and general assignments. She then went on to become the morning anchor at WIOD News Radio, covering state and local news.
Melissa Bill covers national and local news for The Texas Insider, with a focus on business, technology, space and finance. Melissa has reported on stories including the proposed Texas-based stock exchange and Texas’s growing oil and energy sector. She explores and writes about topics important to those living in the Lone-star state..
Melissa received her BA in Mass Communications/Broadcast journalism from Florida International University in Miami.
