Thirteen years ago, when welder Jeffrey Kleine was training for his job as a Wisconsin correctional officer, somebody said, “Remember, you won’t make a difference.”
Kleine’s now a sergeant in the canteen at Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution. “I do make a difference. I know I make a difference. I know that some of these guys when they do leave are better for running into me along the way. . . . Some people are made for being correctional officers and others aren’t,” Kleine said at a rally Thursday for state employees whose 2003-05 labor contract is almost two years past due.