Clarion native named SCI Forest superintendent

From staff reports

Derek Oberlander, a 15-year veteran of the Department of Corrections (DOC) with more than 20 years of criminal justice experience, has been appointed superintendent of the State Correctional Institution (SCI) at Forest.

The appointment of Oberlander, a native of Clarion, was effective March 23, 2019, according to a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections news release.

As superintendent of SCI Forest, Oberlander is responsible for overseeing 655 employees and 2,300 inmates.

“Derek is a well-rounded corrections expert who has a military background, an understanding of facility infrastructure, parole supervision experience and upper management experience in our prisons,” said Executive Deputy Secretary for Institutional Operations Tabb Bickell. “His prison management skills, specifically the violence reduction efforts led at SCI Forest, have served as examples for other prison administrators.”

Oberlander began his corrections career in 2004 at SCI Forest. In 2011, he accepted a position with the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole as a parole agent. In August 2013, he was named acting supervisor for the Franklin suboffice.

He returned to the DOC and, from 2014 to 2019, served as deputy superintendent for facility management and deputy superintendent for centralized services.

Oberlander is also a veteran of the Marine Corps, where he served as a military police officer and as an embassy guard at the American embassies in the Central African Republic and N’Djamena Chad.

From staff reports

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