Areas of Expertise: Use-of-Force; Security Management; Law Enforcement; Police Procedures; Criminology; Criminal Investigations; Weapons; Criminal Forensics; DEA — Drug Enforcement; Drug Enforcement; Inadequate Security; Negligent Security; Disability Rights — ADA; Recruitment & Hiring; Sexual Abuse & Assault; Correctional — Jails & Prisons.
Lenard Vare has over 28 years of practical experience in inmate management in both jails and prisons in CA and NV. He served as a prison Warden with the State of Nevada managing various types of prisons and correctional facilities. He served as the Director and administrator of the Napa County Jail system in California and retired in 2018. Lenard's expertise is in inmate classification, security audits, policy development, program design, high-risk inmate transportation, organizational development, and training law enforcement and correctional personnel in topics related to inmate management. He has served as a criminal investigator and hostage/crisis negotiator, supervised fugitive recovery teams, conducted internal affairs investigations, and operated community-based correctional facilities. He has also served as a criminal justice faculty teaching courses at the undergraduate level at local colleges. He is a Certified Jail Manager (CJM) and certified project management professional (PMP). Lenard has also worked as a COO over an international electronic monitoring company that also provided treatment and day reporting centers to criminal justice agencies. He has provided his expertise to both plaintiffs and defense counsel in a variety of cases in over 30 states in the US. He has also consulted internationally on prison and incarceration issues.
Lenard is the author of the book — Elephant Keepers: Reflections of a Prison Warden. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNFSNJHY/ref=tmm_kin_title_sr?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1700140955&sr=8-1