Brian S. Fischer was the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, the fourth largest state prison system in the United States. He was appointed by former

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Eliot Spitzer Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10, 1959) is an American politician and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he was the 54th governor of New York from 2007 until his resignation in 2008. Spitzer was b ...

in 2007 and retired in 2013. He was previously superintendent (the official title in New York equivalent to that of a prison warden) of Sing Sing Prison. He has spent his entire career in the Correctional Services department since receiving his B.S. in Psychology from Upsala College in 1966 and an

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from the University of Bridgeport in 1968.

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