Incoming Bridgeway CEO brings a wealth of personal experience, education to addiction treatment

Carlos Texidor Maldonado started helping people recover from addiction while he was still in prison.

In 1997, he was several months into a prison sentence for drug possession and robbery at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution. He met Ricardo Olalde, who was visiting with a workshop on drug and alcohol recovery for Latino inmates. 

Texidor Maldonado and other inmates were looking for something to give them a break from their prison’s routine, so they attended.

“He…