[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 17 (Monday, January 29, 2007)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E197]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            IN HONOR OF THE HONORABLE STANLEY W. TAYLOR, JR.

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                         HON. MICHAEL N. CASTLE

                              of delaware

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, January 29, 2007

  Mr. CASTLE. Madam Speaker, it is with great pleasure that I rise 
today to recognize the career of Stanley W. Taylor. Stan has served in 
Delaware's Department of Correction for 30 years. He has proven to be a 
tough and formidable leader in an organization that requires 
exceptional skill, knowledge, and dedication. I commend Mr. Taylor for 
his years of service.
  Stanley W. Taylor has been a Delaware resident since the age of 5. He 
was educated at Indian River High School and the University of 
Delaware. He began his career with the Department of Correction in 1976 
when he served as a correctional officer at the Sussex Correctional 
Institution. He quickly moved through the ranks at Sussex Correctional, 
being promoted to the positions of correctional counselor, training 
academy director, security superintendent, and warden.
  Stan's hard work and skill was recognized when he was promoted to 
chief of the Bureau of Prisons, a position in which he was responsible 
for all prison operations. When Department of Correction Commissioner 
Robert Watson retired in 1995, my colleague Senator Tom Carper, who at 
the time was serving as Governor of Delaware, appointed Stan Taylor to 
serve as commissioner of the Department of Correction.
  For more than 10 years, Stan Taylor has overseen an organization that 
is responsible for over 6,500 incarcerated offenders, over 18,000 
probationers, and more than 10 correctional facilities. He is the first 
person in the history of the First State to begin his career as a 
correctional officer and rise through the ranks to eventually lead the 
Department of Correction as its commissioner.
  I join with the people of Delaware to thank Stan for his continued 
dedication to the correctional system. He has served in a role that can 
be difficult at times, but is a necessity to the security of our State. 
I commend him for a life of service and thank him for his tireless 
dedication to Delaware.

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