Albert “Bud” Gardner, a retired Corrections Professional, Vietnam Combat Veteran, and University Adjunct Instructor. Began his career as a Correctional Officer at Rhode Island’s 1878 Maximum Security Prison in 1969. Bud rose through the ranks to Warden and Rhode Island’s Department of Corrections Assistant Director. And serving on the Board of Directors for the Wyatt Detention Center, (Federal Detention Facility). Always interested in history, he researched the history of Rhode Island’s century old Maximum Security Prison. Bud is a proud father of three and a grandfather of five.
We Called Him Boss
by Bud Gardner
We Called Him Boss
by Bud Gardner
Published Sep 16, 2021
283 Pages
Genre: FICTION / Historical / General
Book Details
Two Men from Two Different Worlds, Brought Together By Fate, in a Place of Loneliness and Despair. A Prison of the Nineteenth Century when “What Happens in Prison Stays in Prison.”
General Nelson Viall, a veteran of two wars, appointed as Warden of the Rhode Island State Prison by his Civil War commander, now Governor, in 1868. Dr. Henry Jones, a young doctor who emigrates from England, a reformer, looking to improve the plight of the poor, infirmed, and imprisoned of society in the late 1800s. Young doctor Jones is employed as the first full-time physician of Rhode Island’s State Prison. A prison run by Warden Viall for the past twenty five years. Recognized by the prison staff, prisoners, and all who deals with him as “Boss.” The two men’s relationship develop to a point where, together, they begin to slowly bring about changes in a system which existed during a time period in history when society wanted the poor, mentally ill and prisoners, out of sight and out of mind.