Mark S. Inch served as Florida's 12th Secretary of Corrections from January 2019 till his retirement in December 2021, completing 40 years of public service. The Florida Department of Corrections is the third largest State Corrections Agency in the Nation. He is now semi-retired and divides his time between family and community, prison ministry and reentry efforts, and personally engaging in the advancement of the corrections profession as an author, speaker, consultant, and executive mentor.

Major General (Ret) Inch previously served as the 15th Provost Marshal General of the Army, Commanding General (CG) of the Criminal Investigation Command (CID) and Army Corrections Command, and Executive Manager of the Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency. Serving as a Military Police Officer for 35 years and US Army Reserve Soldier for 2 years, he held other key positions including: CG, Combined Joint Interagency Task Force 435 in Afghanistan, where he was responsible for Detainee Operations and Rule of Law Development within the Afghan Security Sector; Chief of the Military Police Corps Regiment/46th Commandant, U.S. Army Military Police School in Fort Leonard Wood, MO; Chief of Staff, Task Force 134 (Detainee Operations) in Iraq; 48th Commandant, U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, KS, and Deputy Provost Marshal, United Nations Operation in Somalia. Following his military career and prior to joining the Florida DOC, Inch served as the 9th Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2017-2018. Director Inch oversaw the operation of 122 Bureau of Prisons' facilities with oversight of 39,000 staff and 186,000 incarcerated persons. He resigned this position due to matters of conscience.

 

In 1982, Inch received a BA in Biblical Archaeology from Wheaton College, IL., in 2002, a MA in Geography (focus Middle East/Africa) from the University of Texas at Austin, and in 2005, a MMAS in Military.

Amber Vargas began her career with the Florida Department of Corrections in 2000. Throughout the past 21 years, she has held positions of increasing responsibility and authority. She has over 16 years of experience working in classification, including serving as Classification Officer, Senior Classification Officer, and Classification Supervisor at several facilities and as a Correctional Services Consultant and Correctional Program Administrator for the Bureau of Classification Management. Amber currently is the Assistant Bureau Chief for the Bureau of Classification Management, where she is leading the efforts to establish classification programming, services, and systems development. Additionally, she oversees the Classification Services, Classification Systems Development, Public Records, and the Unannounced Classification Audit sections, where she oversees the operations of the statewide classification programs, monitors the classification decisions statewide, and provides New Classification

Officer training to staff. Amber is a member of the American Correctional Association, the Corrections Foundation, and the Correctional Peace Officer’s Foundation.

Angela Carter began her career with the Florida Department of Corrections in 1996 as a correctional officer. She was promoted to the position of Classification Officer in 2004 and progressed through the ranks of institutional classification to serve as Classification Supervisor before her appointment to central office as a Correctional Services Consultant in the Bureau of Classification Management. In her current position as

Correctional Programs Administrator, she oversees the automated programing of a variety of classification functions such as gain time, inmate custody, inmate discipline, visitation, inmate program rankings, and risk and needs assessments. Angela assists institutional staff daily, troubleshooting system issues and assisting with the interpretation and implementation of policy. She is a member of the American Correctional Association

and the Corrections Foundation.