A.T. Wall is retiring next month as the director of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. Wall started working as a corrections officer in 1976. As he prepares to step down after more than a decade at the helm of the state prison system, he took a few minutes to speak with Rhode Island Public Radio.

One of the state’s top political reporters, Ian Donnis joined The Public’s Radio in 2009. Ian has reported on Rhode Island politics since 1999, arriving in the state just two weeks before the FBI...