LEMON CREEK JOURNAL Insights & Images of Corrections on the last Frontier, Lemon Creek Correctional Center, Juneau, Alaska pandemic edition April 1, 2021 volume XV 1 In this issue: Forward to Volume XV 1 A Message From the Superintendent 2 2020 Employee of the Year 4 Employee of the Quarter 5 What Was It Like? 6 COVID Homework 12 COVID-19: A Mental Health Perspective 16 Sailing The COVID Sea 18 Recruitment 21 To our readers: The Lemon Creek Journal is a quarterly e-Publication of Lemon Creek Correctional Center, Juneau, Alaska. The Journal’s mission is to inform, engage, and challenge Corrections professionals and the public to think critically about the challenges facing Alaska’s correctional system. So that we can be more responsive to our readers, please share with us your impressions and suggestions by emailing the Editor at
[email protected]. Forward to Volume XV The Pandemic Issue This issue of the Lemon Creek Journal is the what they have to say about an experience first to see the light of day since our Holiday most of us know only from headlines. Issue of January, 2020. The original COVID Homework, offers an inside view of Volume XV was well on the way to what it was like to pack up and spend production in March of last year when months working from home. Paul COVID-19 came charging and just like that, McCarthy’s article gives the term, “Home Everything Changed. Talk about the Isolation” a whole new meaning. understatement of a generation. We aren’t out of the woods yet, and it will take years In COVID-19: A Mental Health to write the history of COVID-19 and to Perspective, Mental Health Clinician understand the consequences of our Rachael Cody discusses the effects of responses to it.