The Boxing Breakdown sits down with former Warden of Rahway State Prison and the importance of Boxing Training and Gyms. Bob’s story is personal, professional, gut-wrenching and inspirational and recounted in the memoir Not On My Watch. His story is a reminder that as a society, we have a long way to travel on the path to justice and equality, as well as a guidebook on how to get there.
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ABOUT BOB HATRAK
Bob Hatrak, the famed Rahway State Prison warden, has a rich history—and it began as a child of immigrants whose dreams of being a Major League Baseball star were crushed after a devastating injury.
Out of college, Hatrak pivoted his plans and became a high school teacher and head basketball coach. He started a career in corrections in 1967 when he accepted the Director of Education position at the Trenton State Prison in New Jersey. In 1973, he was asked to assume the warden’s position at the notorious, violent and riot-torn Rahway State Prison (now called East Jersey State Prison).
Under Hatrak’s leadership, violence at Rahway State Prison decreased dramatically, and the penitentiary became a model for prisoner rehabilitation across the state of New Jersey. In recognition of his contributions to the boxing vocational trades school, Hatrak has been inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame. His approach to prison management helped Rahway go from its prior reputation of a chaotic, dangerous and fearful detention center to one that the American Justice Institute honored as one of the five “most stable maximum-security prisons in America.”
Once he left Rahway State Prison, Hatrak led a corrections department in the Pacific Northwest, worked as a state department of corrections director and deputy director and owned and operated a successful prison consulting business for 22 years with his wife (and Not On My Watch co-author) Joan.
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