131ST CONGRESS OF CORRECTION RECAP.

131st Congress Overview Reflecting on our Principles

More than 5,100 corrections professionals nationwide gathered in the "City of Brotherly Love" to discuss "Our Principles: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" at the 131st Congress of Correction in Philadelphia, Aug. 11-16. Congress attendees had the opportunity to network at events such as the Philly Phlashback, participate in workshops on a variety of subjects, discover the latest advances in correctional technology and services in the exhibit hall, and tour area correctional facilities, including the historic Eastern State Penitentiary.

During the Opening Session, Sunday, Aug. 12, American Correctional Association (ACA) President Betty Adams Green invited audience members to renew their personal and professional commitments to corrections, as well as focus on their goals and future plans. "ACA has a long-standing commitment to helping us remain focused on the goals and principles that guide us," she said.

Green continued by pointing out that principles such as opportunity, accountability, humanity and justice are common aspects of mission statements in the corrections profession. However, the question, she said, is not what these concepts represent but do we practice what we preach? "I recognize that no one of us can do all that needs to be done -- but together we can shape the future of corrections," Green said. "Together, we can effectuate the changes needed and improve the quality of life for those we serve, those we work with and the society in which we live."

Green's remarks were followed by an untraditional keynote address -- a performance by the satirical group, the Capitol Steps. Based in Washington, D.C., the troupe of current and former congressional staff lampooned a number of political figures during its skit, including Attorney General John Ashcroft, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, former President Bill Clinton and South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond. During the show, the cast portrayed New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's rise to the Senate in a comical version of the musical, Evita's "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" and Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords' abandonment of the Republican Party with, "Super Callous-G.O.P.-I'm Switching You're Atrocious."

The Capitol Steps formed 20 years ago, when three staff members were asked to provide entertainment for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Christmas party. Instead of staging the traditional nativity play, the staffers sang songs, replacing the lyrics to popular tunes with ones that poked fun at current events. Today, they perform more than 300 shows per year. For more opening session coverage, see page 34.

The next morning at the General Session, the Hon. Ed Koch, former three-term New York City mayor, talked about life after elected office as well as his Second Chance proposal, which would make it less difficult for some ex-offenders to obtain jobs once they re-enter society.

Koch expressed his strong support of corrections and acknowledged that people who commit major crimes should be incarcerated for a long time. However, he said that everything seems to go too far, such as mandatory sentencing. Koch noted that possessing 5 grams of crack cocaine results in a five-year mandatory sentence by federal law, while 500 grams of powder cocaine does not carry a mandatory minimum sentence and usually results in probation. This sentencing disparity crosses racial lines, said Koch, as crack is primarily used by minorities because it is cheaper. "Mandatory minimums are just wrong and unfair," Koch said. "The recidivism rate, which currently is about 75 percent, is extraordinarily high." To read an edited version of Koch's speech, see page 36.

During the rest of the week, Congress participants attended a variety of workshops on a wide range of topics, including telemedicine, balancing priorities in the face of budget reductions, youthful offenders in adult systems, health care needs of older offenders, security threat groups, alternatives to incarceration and much more. Also, ACA's exhibit hall was bustling with activity with more than 600 displays of the latest products and services in the corrections field. At the Student Poster Session and Job Fair, seven students from Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) and one from Georgia State University displayed their research on a variety of topics, including community partnerships, liberal arts education in correctional settings and minority confinement in juvenile justice systems.

Wednesday's Exhibit Hall Grand Prize Drawing left James LeBlanc, warden of the Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson, La., wondering whether he would fly home, as he originally had intended, or drive home in his new 2001 Oldsmobile Silhouette minivan. LeBlanc was one of three finalists, each of whom had to choose a set of keys with one being the set that would start the minivan.

On the final evening, members honored two dedicated corrections professionals at the annual E.R. Cass Correctional Achievement Awards Banquet. This year's winners were Joseph D. Lehman, secretary of the Washington Department of Corrections, and Virginia Swanson, former regional administrator of the Washington Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration.

Michele D. Buisch

Event: Opening Session ACA Kicks Off Congress With a Different Flair

The American Correctional Association (ACA) officially kicked off its 131st Congress of Correction during the Opening Session, Sunday, Aug. 12, at 8 p.m. with entertainment by the Capitol Steps, the Presidential Overview by Betty Adams Green and the presentation of the 2001 Exemplary Offender Program award.

The Capitol Steps, a satirical performance group out of Washington, D.C., comprised of current and former congressional staff members, lampooned a number of political figures in its 45-minute skit, including Attorney General John Ashcroft, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, former President Bill Clinton and South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond. The cast characterized New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's rise to the Senate in a comical version of the musical Evita's, "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" and depicted Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords' abandonment of the Republican Party in "SuperCallous-G.O.P.-I'm-Switching-You're-Atrocious."

The group was formed 20 years ago, when three staff members were asked to provide the entertainment for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Christmas party. Instead of staging the traditional nativity play, they sang songs that replaced the lyrics to popular tunes with ones that poked fun at the day's current events. Today, they perform more than 300 shows per year nationwide.

Also at the Opening Session, ACA President Betty Adams Green addressed the audience, inviting them to renew the personal and professional commitments they have made to the corrections field, as well as to remember goals and to plan for the future. "ACA has a long-standing commitment to helping us remain focused on the goals and principles that guide us," Green said.

Green noted that principles such as opportunity, accountability, humanity and justice are common aspects of mission statements in the corrections profession. The question, Green says, is not what these concepts represent but do we practice what we preach? "That becomes the real daily challenge," she said.

After pointing out that ACA was founded by individuals with vision, Green quoted from ACA's first Declaration of Principles: "The treatment of the criminal by society is for the protection of society. But since such treatment is directed to the criminal rather than the crime, its great object should be his moral regeneration."

"Although the language is old, the message is contemporary," said Green. "The role of corrections is to assist in the prevention and control of delinquency and crime but, ultimately, however, preventing criminal and delinquent behavior depends in large measure on the will of the individual and the constructive qualities of society and its basic institutions -- family, school, religion and government."

Green said ACA's Declaration of Principles are due for revision in 2002. "It is my hope that all of you will take time to review, examine and digest this document and consider its meaning for you personally and for our Association," Green said. She noted that these principles should guide us in our day-to-day endeavors. "It is important that we recognize, even in the stress of our everyday duties, the nobleness of our goal, and that we support each other as we move toward our goal and strive to improve an imperfect system."

"I recognize that no one of us can do all that needs to be done -- but together we can shape the future of corrections," Green noted. She concluded by urging attendees to recognize common goals and support one another. "Together we can effectuate the changes needed and improve the quality of life for those we serve, those we work with and the society in which we live."

Finally, the Exemplary Offender Program Award was presented to the Federal Correctional Institution (FCD)-Beckley's BRAVE (Beckley Responsibility and Values Enhancement) program, which helps inmates make positive personal changes while they are incarcerated. BRAVE is unique in that it benefits both participating inmates and facility staff by affording offenders the opportunity for positive change, while also acting as a way to manage a potentially difficult population.

BRAVE, which got its start in the West Virginia facility in 1998, targets offenders 32 and younger who are serving prison sentences of 60 months or more and have never been incarcerated in a federal prison. It provides inmates with the chance to make positive changes by facilitating development of pro-social values, maintenance of clear conduct and effective time management. Additionally, it offers a supportive treatment community for potentially difficult inmates by encouraging positive staff and fellow inmate interactions.

Joyce K. Conley, warden of FCI-Beckley and Patti Butterfield, BRAVE program director, accepted the award. "I am delighted and honored to accept the American Correctional Association 2001 Exemplary Offender Award on behalf of the Federal Correctional Institution of Beckley, West Virginia," Conley said. She also thanked those who played a major role in making BRAVE successful, including Butterfield, the five BRAVE treatment specialists and all of FCI-Beckley. Conley also acknowledged several people for their continuous support, including Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the executive staff.

-- Michele D. Buisch, Susan L. Clayton and Elizabeth A. Klug

Event: General Session New York's Former Mayor Ed Koch Delivers Keynote Address

Editor's Note: The following is an edited version of the General Session keynote address delivered by three-term New York City former Mayor Ed Koch, Aug 13, 2001. A former US. congressman, Koch was elected as New York City's 105th mayor, and re-elected to two additional terms. While a congressman in 1971, as a member of the Appropriations Subcommittee, he co-sponsored a bill for Norman Carlson, then director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), to help create halfway houses for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. A veteran with two battle stars for his service to our nation during World War II, Koch entered private law practice after his last term in office. He has authored 12 books, writes a weekly column for Newsday, and even writes film, book and restaurant reviews. He also is well-known as a judge on the popular television show, The People's Court.

I have been out of office now for about 12 years, and I have enjoyed the time out of office, as I did the time ... and I have enjoyed the time that I was congressman, mayor and city councilman immensely, but I am not sorry it is over. Many people often ask me, "What do you miss?" and they don't believe it, I think, in many cases, but it's absolutely true: I don't miss anything. I enjoyed every minute of it.

I believe that if I had been elected to a fourth term, I probably would have died on the job because you have to give it everything you have and, as the chairman mentioned, I am one of only three mayors who served for three terms in New York City. There will never be another because we now have term limitations. The other two were [Fiorello] LaGuardia and [Robert] Wagner. And I ran for a fourth term. No mayor had ever run for a fourth term. And I lost; I lost to David Dinkins. If I were such a good mayor, someone would ask, why did I lose? And I believe it was longevity. People just get tired of you. And they saw me on the television tube every night at 6 o'clock, making some kind of comment -- hopefully, mostly intelligent ones. And they said to themselves, "There must be somebody else who can do this." They found there wasn't.

What for me was the most interesting aspect was that when I lost to Dinkins, I helped him get elected; since I got 42 percent of the votes and he only won by 2 percent, he acknowledged that he couldn't have won without me. And he served for four years, and he did a lot of good things. But he will be haunted in history because of the rioting in Crown Heights that took place in 1991, which he allowed to go on, thinking it would peter out, and people will never forget that. And, while I am a Democrat, and I have supported thousands of Democratic nominees in the course of the years I have been in office and even before, I occasionally cross party lines. I decided I would cross them in 1993, when Dinkins and Rudy Giuliani were running against each other for a second time and the public was not happy. They really did not want Dinkins because of the Crown Heights rioting and his failure to control it. So, as I walked around the streets, people would say to me, over and over again, up to 10 times a day: "Mayor, you must run again." And my response was always the same: "No! The people threw me out, and now the people must be punished."

When I left office Jan. 1, 1990, the first day of my return to regular status, the people who were close to me in my administration wanted to make sure that ... you know, I hadn't made a cup of coffee in 12 years. They don't let you at Grade Mansion; you're taking somebody's job if you make a cup of coffee. So they knew that I'd have a hard time readjusting to that. There were 15 people always serving me at Gracie Mansion. I didn't want it, but that's the way it was and, when I came home, people were so nice to me, and my friends had stocked the refrigerator, and about a week later, everything was gone out of the refrigerator, and I had to go shopping for the first time.

I went downstairs -- I live on lower Fifth Avenue -- and I walked up Fifth Avenue to Ninth Street to go over to Balducci's, which is our famous market in Greenwich Village, and I met people and they said, "Oh, Mayor, it is so nice to see you. You were such a good mayor and you're such a good neighbor." Time after time, people would say that to me. As I crossed Ninth Street, again people said that to me. And then, when I got to Balducci's, standing in front of Balducci's was a kind of a disheveled guy, about 30, sitting on his bike. He looked at me and said, "You were a terrible mayor." And I said to him, "F--you!" I felt liberated for the first time. I couldn't say that when I was mayor!

I want to talk to you about jails. You know more than I, but I know something because I made it one of my major legislative priorities when I was a congressman and when I was mayor. In fact, I met Norman Carlson. I visited the Federal House of Detention in Manhattan, where police had been involved in a riot and I wanted to see what had happened. I support jails and I believe in them, but I also believe that they have to be humane.

When I got there, I asked the warden if I could see the maximum detention center, and he said sure and took me there. When I got there, some guy yelled, "Can I talk to you, Congressman?" and I said, "Sure." I went over and he said, "You know, this cell is built for two people and there are six of us in here, and they don't let me exercise, and they don't let me use the showers, and it's just awful." And I said, "What are you in here for?" and he said, "Bombing." "Ah," I said. "You're the Free the Village One Sam Melville." He was very famous at the time. He actually was killed up there at Attica; he was shot. "Well," I said, "I'll find out." And I wrote a letter to Norman Carlson asking: "Why can't he shower? Why can't he exercise?" And the director wrote back: "It's very dangerous. They have to be segregated. The prison population doesn't like bombers," he wrote. "You have to keep them segregated, otherwise, they are in danger. But I'll do what I can." Then, about two weeks later, I got a letter from Sam Mel ville, which read, "I want to thank you, and I've written a little poem: It takes a visit from the brass, to get the warden off his ass.' We can now shower and we can exercise ... And now," he had added, "I'd like to talk to you about the library."

As I said, I believe in jails. In fact, when I became mayor, there were only 7,000 people in jail, and when I left, there were 22,000 people in jail. And I must say to you I had to build those jail cells. In fact, when we got to the 7,000 mark, one of the federal judges said, "You can't take anybody in unless you let somebody out." Pretty nutty, right? "Your jails are full. And you have to give every one of those [inmates] 60 square feet of personal space." I said, "Judge, when I was in basic training, I didn't have 60 square feet of personal space. But if that's what I have to do, I will build the cells." And we'd built up to the next 22,000 when I left.

People talk about a reduction in crime and why it happened and there are lots of reasons why it happened. One of the reasons is mandatory sentencing. People who commit major crimes have to be in jail for lengthy periods of time and the judges, most of us felt, were not being tough enough. So mandatory sentences came into vogue, so the power of the sentencing was taken from the judges and they had to be mandatory. Now, it went too far. Everything goes too far. It's a pendulum. The pendulum always swings too far. I, at this particular moment, am involved in what I call the "Second Chance" proposal. It is to deal with the fact that you have enormous numbers of people in jail who are nonviolent drug offenders. Sooner or later, they are going to get out.

You know, 600,000 of the 2 million people in jail in the United States get out every year. So we have to understand that it is to the advantage of society if we are able to prevent them from becoming recidivists. I should tell you about when I met my first recidivist. I told you earlier that I was very interested in jails. I visited nearly every jail in New York City when I was a congressman and then I decided that I would visit the [Washington] D.C. Jail. I don't know if they've changed it, but when I got there, it was more than 100 years old -- a really old jail! I always went unannounced to the jails. So, I walked into the D.C. jail and there was an elderly man swinging a mop. He looked up and saw me and said, "Congressman Koch! How are you?" And I said, "I-low the hell do you know who I am?" He answered, "I had the pleasure at the Tombs." That was my first recidivist.

Getting back to Second Chance, one of our laws on mandatory minimums is terribly unfair, and that relates to the difference between powder cocaine and crack cocaine. If you use crack cocaine and you have five grams, under federal law, you are subject upon conviction to a mandatory five years in prison. In order for you to be subject to the same mandatory sentence if you use powder cocaine, you have to have 100 times the weight -- 500 grams. And if you have less, you are not subject to any mandatory minimum. In many cases, you are given probation. This is terribly unfair because the people who overwhelmingly use crack cocaine are [primarily] black and Hispanic because it's cheap. And the people who use powder cocaine are [primarily] white. So you have that enormous disparity in sentencing. One goes free, often, and one, the judge has no alternative but to send to jail for five years. Well, there have been efforts to change that and everyone is afraid to change it because they say that it will make us look soft on crime. It's just wrong. But I don't deal in my Second Chance with the sentencing, nor, changing the system.

There are many people who now are seeking to change the criminal system. But no one is doing anything about the person who has served his time. They are all talking about diverting a first offender and a second offender to a noncriminal sentence -- community service -- but the people who have served the five-year minimum, or the 15-year minimum, which has just been added to the federal system, come out. And they come out and what happens to them? I'm not even going to go into the fact that enormous numbers have AIDS and HIV. Thirty-eight percent have tuberculosis (TB); that's infectious. And they have the worst kind -- the one that doesn't get cured easily. And if you talk into a street telephone that one of those guys used, you're in danger. So we have to do something about that aspect of it, but I know that recidivism is extraordinarily high -- as much as 75 percent. And why? Because, they don't have families. Families make the total difference in changing the recidivism rate. You need the support. You need the emotional support, the obligations of being a father, taking care of children. Most women, quite understandably, are not going to marry a felon. He can't support them and their families. And why can't they get jobs, for the most part? Well, there are a lot of reasons. Some, because they are not given skills while they are in prison. After all, a guy's in prison, he's really in your total control. You can teach him. Some won't want to learn, but some will. But we don't do enough of that. It's not enough to make benches or license plates. We have to teach them computer skills. You have to recognize that prison is not for torture, and that they do come out, and that it is in our interest to make sure that they don't become recidivists.

We don't make any provisions for their health conditions; we don't make any provisions for where they're going to sleep that night. So we have to understand it's not being soft to say we have to do something. We want to do it for ourselves, so we're not going to get ripped off by these guys who can't get jobs. And why can't they get jobs? Almost as a matter of course today, employers have the question on the job application: Have you ever been convicted of a crime? You answer yes, and you generally do, because they are going to check it and then who wants to hire a felon if you can hire somebody else? There are laws that say you may not discriminate, even against felons, except in particular situations, but those laws are not observed and everybody understands that. You don't. Who's going to know why you turned down this guy and took the next one who doesn't have a criminal record? They can't get jobs. So I said to myself, "There has to be a way."

This is the proposal I've come up with, which has passed the assembly in the state of New York, and the governor likes it, and I believe that it may yet become law. And Charlie Reingold is supporting it in Congress. He's a very powerful legislator and I, therefore, believe that this has a lot of support. What's the proposal? The proposal is that offenders who get out of jail, having served their time, and have no more than two felonies and two misdemeanors -- drug offenders generally have a number of both -- that have all been nonviolent, become eligible for the Second Chance proposal. And the Second Chance proposal states that if you go into drug treatment and alcohol treatment and get your GED and do community service, at the end of five years, if you have not had a problem with the law, you can apply to a commission that will allow you to respond to the question, "Have you ever been convicted of a crime?" with the answer, "No." People will say, "What about if they do that and they go out then and they comm it a crime and they come into the criminal justice system?" This law that I am proposing only applies to the civil system, so that if you come before a court, your entire prior criminal record is before the court. It is only for civil matters and there are exceptions even there. We don't believe that you could get a Legislature to allow a felon to become a law enforcement person. So, for law enforcement, they can look at the criminal record. And there may be other areas you would want to as well. But we have limited them, knowing the Legislature will expand them when it takes up the legislation. And people will say, "Well, isn't this unheard of, authorizing them to say no, when in fact they have such a record?" Not in New York. In New York, they have, and I'm sure it's true around the country, that if you have a mental disability, you can go into court and ask the judge, who will look at your record, for permission to be able to respond if asked the question, "Have you ever been institutionalized in a mental institution?" to answer, "No." So, it is not a novel approach. And I am very hopeful that it will ultimately pass.

Now I want to turn to some political observations. I do a lot of media work and I'm probably the only media person in the whole country who says to people who'll hire me, "You know, I don't give up my right to endorse candidates and to be active politically" because that's the fun in life for me. And in New York City, there is a mayoral contest. There are four candidates. People like to think about New York City as a great place to visit, and for me, a great place to live. And there are four major candidates. And I am supporting one of them. The guy who is in the lead is not the candidate I am supporting, regrettably.

Rudy Giuliani couldn't run because of term limits, but he is supported, and I think really liked by a hardcore 35 percent of conservative people who are appreciative he helped bring down crime. He can't take too much credit. The person who really was primarily responsible was police Commissioner Bill Bradley and Maples, who just died. He brought in what we call ComSat, a novel approach in which you bring in all the commissioners and deputy commissioners and you beat them up in public, within the department itself, and you ask them, "If this captain is able to bring down crime, why is it that you, in the next precinct, are not able to meet those numbers? Competition is absolutely what makes the world go round and what makes capitalism so successful. It's the competition. You want to be as good or better as the next person you are compared to.

I've written 12 books. My last book is very good, if I say so myself. I'm Not Done Yet is the title. I said to myself, I'm never going to retire. Never. I want to die at my desk, if that's possible, without pain. I've had a number of medical incidents. In 1986, I had a stroke. I remember the exact moment of the stroke. I was sitting in my car, going to Harlem with the commissioner. He's talking, and suddenly, I wasn't listening. And that is not like me. And then, I started to speak and it came out gibberish. And I knew I was having a stroke. So I tapped the detective, Eddie Martinez, sitting in front of the car, on the shoulder and he could understand what I said, and I said, "Eddie, get me to the hospital. I'm having a stroke." So I got to the hospital in about two minutes -- lights, sirens, four blocks away -- and I went in and out of stroke three times in the space of the next hour, and then they put me into the intensive care section and my family came to see me. The next person was the rabbi of the syna gogue I go to. He said, "Ed, I'm here just to ask that you say after me the prayers that ask for God's intercession. Heal me and I shall be healed. Save me and I shall be saved." And I said prayers both in Hebrew and in English, and he left. He said, "I'm not going to stay long because you have to sleep." Ten minutes later the cardinal came -- Cardinal John O'Conner -- he and I wrote a book together, His Eminence and His Honor. We were very good friends. He was an extraordinary man. Really, whenever I talk about him, I nearly weep. Sometimes, I actually do weep. But, in any event, he said, "Ed, I'm not going to stay very long. You have to sleep." It was at that moment I knew that's what they say to everybody they think is dying. So I listened and he said, "Ed, you're in my prayers, and if you'd like, I will pray for you in Hebrew." And I said, "Your Eminence, I've taken care of the Hebrew. Would you try a little Latin?"

I actually recovered in four days, and I had a conversation with God at the time, one of those silent conversations, and I said, "Listen, God, I don't mind dying. I've had a very good, full life, and you can take me whenever you want to, but don't do it in pieces. All at once, or not at all." He's kept his share of the bargain.

And I decided in my life that I would use whatever time was left to me as positively as I could, and I think I have. I'm partner in a law firm. I have, by actual count, 11 jobs, and I get them all done. And what I really enjoy is that people still remember me in New York City. I walk around and people remember my motto. You may remember my motto, which was "How Am I Doing?" And as I walked around, people would yell across the street, "Don't ask. You're doing terrific!" And that actually makes you feel good. There is nothing like public service. Because you have the opportunity to make life better for somebody who needs help. I've always kept in mind that for me, 1 am so grateful that people allowed me to be the mayor. There are people who hold high public offices who think they belong to them, that they were born for the purpose. I'm grateful, and always will be, that I was given the opportunity.

I'm going to close with a little anecdote, which sort of finishes up that story about the stroke. Four days alter I had my stroke in 1986, I left the hospital and the doctor said, "Well, go home and take a week off." And I said, "OK." It wasn't hard to do. I was living in the mayor's mansion on the river, along the East River; it was just lovely. So, Idid.

It was hot; it was August. I was sitting on the porch, and suddenly the police officer at the gate called in and said, "Mayor, a car just drove up and there are four nuns in the car, and one of them says she's Mother Theresa. What should I do?" So I said, "I know Mother Theresa, but it's hardly likely she's in that car, but I'll come down and see." So I went down to the gate, looked in the car: four nuns, and one of them was Mother Theresa. I said, "Mother, what are you doing here?" She said, "Ed, I knew you were ill. You were in my prayers, so I came to see you. How are you doing?" I answered, "Mother, your prayers worked, and I'm doing terrific. And now that you're here, stay awhile with me." So, she got out of the car and I took her by the hand and we skipped up the path, three nuns behind us. It was just like a movie.

We went onto the terrace, the porch. This woman was a saint; everybody knew it before she died. I said to her, "Mother, everybody loves you because of all the work that you have done for everybody. I want to do something for you. Is there something I could do for you?" And she looked at me, thought a while, and said, "Yes." I said, "What, Mother?" She said, "I need two parking permits." Well, even a saint has to park.

At that point, at the end of the conversation, my chef (I had a chef in those days) came out with freshly made lemonade and freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, and I poured the lemonade for the mother and the three sisters and myself, and I drank it -- cool and delicious. It was so hot out there. I said, "Mother, why don't you drink the lemonade? It's so good, and it's so hot out here." She said, "Ed, my sisters and I work primarily in India. In India, if a family were to offer to us what you've just offered to us, it would cost them a week's wages. So we have a rule: When we go into the homes of the rich and the mighty and they offer us food and drink, we always decline. And then, when we go into the homes of the poor and we decline, they're not insulted because they know of our rule." And I thought to myself, "She's really a saint." And then I said, "But, Mother, these chocolate chip cookies are the best chocolate chip cookies ever baked." So she said, "Well, wrap them up!" Thank you.

New Policies and Resolutions Approved

Editor's Note: The following resolutions were adopted during the 131st Congress of Correction in Philadelphia: Drug Abuse Education, Prevention and Control Act and Children's Confinement Conditions Improvement Act.

Resolution on the Drug Abuse Education, Prevention and Control Act (S.304)

WHEREAS, substance abuse is a significant and pervasive problem in American society; and

WHEREAS, a substantial majority of offenders have documented substance abuse problems, representing a significant threat to the well-being of families and communities; and

WHEREAS, the American Correctional Association supports efforts to reduce illegal drug use and trafficking; and

WHEREAS, the American Correctional Association has long supported efforts to help provide drug education, prevention, and gender responsive treatment programs both in community corrections and facilities; and

WHEREAS, the Drug Abuse Education, Prevention and Control Act (S.304) provides for incentive grants in order to encourage the establishment and maintenance of drug-free prisons and jails; and

WHEREAS, the Drug Abuse Education, Prevention and Control Act (S.304) contains provisions that are aimed at protecting children from exposure to drugs, including increased penalties for drug offenses involving minors, character education and alternative educational services for at-risk youths; and

WHEREAS, the Drug Abuse Education, Prevention and Control Act (S.304) provides for the special needs of juveniles with substance abuse problems by authorizing grants for treatment services and for the expansion of drug abuse research;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the American Correctional Association endorses the intent of S.304 to establish and maintain drug-free prisons and jails and reduce the use of drugs by juveniles.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the American Correctional Association, as the organization representing professionals in adult and juvenile detention and corrections, be actively involved in the legislative process determining the provisions of S.304 to ensure that corrections professionals concerns for certain sections of the legislation are addressed by our profession.

Resolution on the Children's Confinement Conditions Improvement Act (S.1174)

WHEREAS, the American Correctional Association (ACA) recognizes that a growing number of juveniles are being adjudicated as adults and sentenced to jail or prison; and

WHEREAS, ACA's Public Correctional Policy on Youthful Offenders Transferred to Adult Criminal Jurisdiction supports the placement of persons under the age of majority who are detained or sentenced as adults in a juvenile detention/correctional system or youthful offender system distinct from the adult system; and

WHEREAS, the Children's Confinement Conditions Improvement Act (S.1174) supports the separation of juveniles under the jurisdiction of an adult criminal court from adult offenders and supports the housing of juveniles in separate facilities; and

WHEREAS, the Children's Confinement Conditions Improvement Act provides incentives and funding assistance to alter existing correctional facilities or develop separate facilities for juveniles who are detained or are serving sentences in adult prisons or jails; or to seek alternatives to housing juveniles under the jurisdiction of an adult criminal court with adult inmates, including the expansion of juvenile facilities; and

WHEREAS, such funding shall include grants for programs to provide correctional staff with ongoing training to address the developmental, educational, vocational, and mental and physical health needs of those offenders; and

WHEREAS, such funding shall provide access to educational programs, vocational training, mental and physical health assessment and treatment, and drug treatment for juveniles who are serving sentences under the jurisdiction of an adult criminal court;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the American Correctional Association endorses the general purpose of the Children's Confinement Conditions Improvement Act of 2001 (S.1174), "to provide incentives and funding assistance for states to reduce dangerous and unsafe conditions in the detention and incarceration of juvenile offenders under the jurisdiction of an adult criminal court, including separating those juvenile offenders from adult prisoners and ensuring that corrections officers who supervise them receive training in supervision issues unique to juveniles."

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the American Correctional Association, as the organization representing professionals in adult and juvenile detention and corrections, be actively involved in the legislative process determining the final provisions of S.1174 to ensure that corrections professionals' concerns for certain sections of the legislation are addressed by our profession.

New Policy

Editor's Note: The Public Correctional Policy on Re-Entry of Offenders, which previously was printed in the April issue of Corrections Today for member input, received final approval in Philadelphia.

Public Correctional Policy on Re-Entry of Offenders

Introduction:

Re-entry programs are in the best interest of society because they help prepare offenders for community life, help reduce future criminal behavior, remove the barriers that make it difficult for offenders to re-enter their communities and develop necessary community support.

Policy Statement:

The American Correctional Association fully supports re-entry programs and encourages the elimination of any local, state and federal laws and policies that place barriers on the offender's successful re-entry. Therefore, public and private agencies at the federal, state and local levels should:

A. Advocate for the review of existing laws and regulations that inhibit the successful reentry of offenders.

B. Initiate transitional planning, consistent with the individual needs of the offender, during intake to the facility.

C. Provide an expedited process to obtain appropriate legal identification prior to or upon release.

D. Assist the offender in accessing appropriate housing upon release.

E. Provide sufficient staff to supervise offenders released to the community.

F. Develop community partnerships and support networks for providing a seamless and timely connection between pre and post-release programs and services.

G. Provide information and assistance to address health care needs, such as obtaining medicaid, medical and substance abuse treatment, and other health and psychological services, to offenders in the community upon release. Provide a sufficient supply of prescription medication upon release.

H. Provide information and assistance to offenders to gain employment upon release, such as pre-employment readiness training, job identification and retention skills training, and job placement services.

I. Provide prerelease counseling to help reunite offenders with their families and communities.

Amended and Approved Policies

Editor's Note: The existing Public Correctional Policies on Correctional Health Care, Offenders with Special Needs and Victims of Crime were reviewed, amended and approved for continuation.

Public Correctional Policy on Correctional Health Care

Introduction:

Incarcerated individuals, or those in the custody of criminal justice agencies, have a constitutional right to adequate health care. Correctional jurisdictions must use a comprehensive, holistic approach to providing medical and mental health care services that are sensitive to the cultural, subcultural, age and gender responsive needs of a growing and diverse population. All services must be consistent with community health care standards. To ensure accountability and professional responsibility, these services should follow the policy guidelines set forth below, a well as the medical and mental health care standards of the American Correctional Association.

Policy Statement:

Health care programs for offenders include comprehensive medical, dental and mental health services. Such programs should:

A. Be delivered by qualified and appropriately credentialed health care professionals;

B. Include a comprehensive health promotion and disease prevention program designed to meet the specific health maintenance needs of the specific residential population, which includes health, nutrition and safety education programs;

C. Employ a stratified system of service delivery to maximize the efficient use of medical and mental health care resources;

D. Include correctional officers who work in medical and mental health care units as active participants in the multidisciplinary treatment team;

E. Create community linkages that will facilitate the continuation of the treatment plan by community health and mental health care agencies for persons being released from incarceration;

F. Establish appropriate classification, program and housing assignments for juvenile and elderly offenders and offenders with mental illnesses, chronic illnesses or terminal illnesses. Medical health, mental health and substance abuse programs must be developed that address the unique needs of these populations;

G. Establish hospice services for terminally ill offenders supported by a compassionate release program for those who qualify;

H. Establish comprehensive medical and mental health, housing and substance abuse programs that are specifically designed for the special needs of female offenders;

I. Upon intake screening, provide all offenders with language appropriate oral and written information concerning access to medical and mental health care services, followed by more formal instruction during the institution admission and orientation program;

J. Provide continuous, comprehensive services beginning at admission, including effective and timely screening, assessment and treatment, and appropriate referral to alternate health care resources where warranted;

K. Establish a system to provide access to emergency treatment 24-hours per day;

L. Establish a formal process to screen for, identify, treat and manage inmates with infectious diseases;

M. Provide appropriate health care training programs that are cognizant of cultural, subcultural, age and gender issues for all correctional and health care staff, and allow for continuing professional and medical education programs;

N. Provide a medical records system to document diagnosis and treatment programs to facilitate treatment continuity and cooperation between health care professionals, consistent with privacy, confidentiality and security requirements;

O. Provide a pharmaceutical distribution system that conforms to applicable state and federal laws and established formularies;

P. Provide a continuing quality improvement program including risk management programs and peer review activities to monitor and evaluate the health care services delivered;

Q. Establish a Patient Bill of Rights;

R. Provide a system for medical and administrative review of grievances relating to any health care offered, provided or denied;

S. Provide screening for dual-diagnosis and substance abuse; and

T. Provide all inmates who are given new prescriptions with oral counseling or written information about their medications. This information ideally should be provided by pharmacists.

U. Provide a sufficient supply of prescription medication upon release.

V. Provide the opportunity to establish a living will and/or advanced directives.

Public Correctional Policy on Offenders With Special Needs

Introduction:

The provision of humane and gender-responsive programs and services for the accused and adjudicated requires addressing the special needs of juvenile, youthful and adult offenders. To meet this goal, correctional agencies should develop and adopt procedures for the early identification of offenders with special needs. Agencies should provide the services that respond to those needs and monitor and evaluate the delivery of services in both confined and community settings.

Policy Statement:

Correctional systems should assure provision of specialized services, programs and conditions of confinement to meet the special needs of offenders. To achieve this, they should:

A. Identify the categories of juvenile, youthful and adult offenders who will require special care or programs. These categories include:

1. Offenders with severe psychological needs, mental retardation, significant psychiatric disorders, behavior disorders, multiple handicaps, neurological impairments and substance abuse;

2. Offenders who are physically handicapped or chronically or terminally ill;

3. Offenders who are elderly;

4. Offenders with severe social and/or educational deficiencies, learning disabilities or language barriers;

5. Offenders with special security or supervision needs, such as protective custody cases, death row inmates, and those who chronically exhibit potential for violent or aggressive behavior; and

6. Sex offenders for whom appropriate treatment may reduce the risk of reoffending.

B. Identify offenders needing special services and provide such services in a manner consistent with professional standards. Such services and programs may be provided within the correctional agency itself, or by referral to another agency that has the necessary specialized program resources, or by contracting with private or voluntary agencies, or with individuals who meet professional standards;

C. Maintain appropriately trained staff and/or contractors for the delivery of care, programs and services;

D. Maintain professionally appropriate record keeping of the services and programs provided;

E. Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of services provided; and

F. Provide leadership and advocacy for legislative and public support to obtain the resources needed to meet these special needs.

Public Correctional Policy on Victims of Crime

Introduction:

Victims of crime suffer financial, emotional and/or physical trauma. The criminal justice and juvenile justice systems are dedicated to the principle of fair and equal justice for all people. Victims' rights should be pursued within the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems to ensure that victims' needs are addressed.

Policy Statement:

Victims have the right to be treated with respect and compassion, to be informed about and involved in the criminal and juvenile justice process as it affects their lives, to be protected from harm and intimidation, and to be provided with necessary financial and support services that attempt to restore a sense of justice to them. Although many components of the criminal justice and juvenile justice systems share in the responsibility of providing services to victims of crime, the corrections community has an important role in this process and should:

A. Support activities that advocate for the rights of the victims;

B. Promote local, state and federal legislation that emphasizes victims' rights and the development of victim services;

C. Support efforts by federal, state and local units of government to increase the present level of funding and better use existing resources to support victim services and programs;

D. Advocate for the development of programs in which offenders provide restitution to victims, compensation and service to the community, and whenever possible, hold offenders financially responsible for their crimes;

E. Promote active participation of victims in the criminal justice and juvenile justice processes, including the opportunity to be heard and to participate in and/or attend juvenile and adult institutional release and/or parole release hearings, to receive advance notification of institutional release or escape, and to provide separate waiting areas for victims and their families where offenders and victims may be present at the same hearing;

F. Educate, with sensitivity to language and disability needs, crime victims and victim service providers about correctional practices and involve correctional personnel in victim advocacy activities;

G. Train justice officials for both juvenile and adult offenders on victim program services and the impact of crime on victims, and promote sensitivity to victims' rights;

H. Operate those victims' assistance programs that appropriately fall within the responsibility of the field of corrections. Correctional agencies should, at a minimum:

1. Designate personnel in each correctional agency to respond to questions and concerns of victims and to ensure that appropriate victim notification and assistance procedures are implemented;

2. Develop and distribute materials describing the correctional system and specific victims' rights within that system;

3. Support and facilitate the use of victim impact statements in sentencing, post-conviction review and programming processes; and

4. Recognize correctional staff who are assaulted or held hostage as crime victims and develop new approaches for responding to their victimization.

I. Promote the use of existing community resources and community volunteers to serve the needs of victims.

Philadelphia Workshops Address a Variety of Issues

Editor's Note: Congress attendees had the opportunity to attend various workshops Aug. 11-15. Topics ranged from juvenile offenders and work ethics to elderly and female offenders. The following is a summary of several of the workshops.

Babies Behind Bars or Babies Left Behind?

More than 1.2 million children in the United States have one or both parents in a state or federal correctional facility, or under correctional supervision. However, there are limited programs available to help these at-risk children cope with the issues that surround the incarceration of and ensuing separation from their parents. Speakers Larry Wayne, warden of the Diagnostic and Evaluation Center for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, and Mary Alley, parenting program coordinator for the Nebraska Correctional Center, addressed these issues in the workshop, "Babies Behind Bars or Babies Left Behind?'

The large number of children with an incarcerated parent, coupled with the dramatic rise in gangs nationwide proves that this issue needs to be addressed even though critics may argue that special programs aimed at strengthening the bonds between incarcerated parents and their children simply serve to coddle inmates, Wayne said.

"If we're not addressing the needs of these children, if we're waving it off as coddling female inmates and they're not able to have even a small, yet important role in continuing with the bonding relationship and continuing with the raising of their children along with the partner on the outside, who is raising these kids?" Wayne asked. "Gangs are filled with a lot of throwaway children. Gangs are strong family identification, strong self-esteem -- all the things you're supposed to get that you don't get in your home."

At the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women, where Wayne was warden for 11 years and 89 percent of the 262 inmates are mothers, a parenting program is in place to help create or preserve the relationships the mothers have with their children. "We wanted to stop the cycle of mothers and children and sisters coming to jail," Alley said.

Inmates with children ages 1 through 8 may earn extended visitation with their children for one to five days per month. During that time, the mothers and children participate in activities together that they may do at home, such as baking cookies or making crafts. The visit is much more meaningful, Alley said, "than talking to your child from across a table or, even worse, through glass."

Alley said she believes the visits are more beneficial to the children who are given the opportunity to see that their mothers are safe and that they are not wearing gray uniforms and scrubbing the concrete with toothbrushes. At the same time, they also are told that the visit is a special event and not typical of prison life.

In addition, the program promotes order and discipline since it is a privilege that must be earned by meeting certain requirements, including having a good institutional record and participating in parenting classes. Wayne said the benefits are not often measurable, but they exist.

In 1993, when the facility's inmates were averaging one birth per month, a nursery was added to the parenting program. Alley explained that when pregnant women gave birth, they would have their children taken away from them several days later before any bonding could occur. Upon release, the women would find that their babies had formed bonds with other people.

The nursery, which allows women to stay with and care for their babies, was created to allow those bonds to form. Consequently, to be eligible for the nursery program, a woman must be eligible for release within 18 months so the bonding process will not be interrupted. During their time in the nursery, inmates take parenting classes.

In 1996, the cost of the nursery program per child per year was approximately $11,000 and foster placement, which is the alternative for many of the children not placed in the nursery program, was about $18,000, said Wayne.

Now that Wayne is warden of a male correctional facility, he has taken some of the ideas from the parenting program at the women's facility to create a class for inmate fathers. Although the male inmates are not permitted overnight visits, Wayne and another instructor teach them how to be a part of their children's lives while they are in prison so that when they are released, it will be easier to step back into their parental roles. Although not as extensive as the program at the women's facility, Wayne said it is effective and he encouraged the workshop participants to "do something in the way of training or enriching visitation time for the large group of at-risk kids."

Meet the Experts

In the workshop, "Conference Spotlight -- Meet the Experts," five panelists gave brief presentations about projects in which they are currently involved. Speakers included: John J. Maloy, superintendent of the New York State Department of Correctional Services Albany Training Academy; Jeanne Stinchcomb, professor at Florida Atlantic University; Allen J. Beck, chief of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) for the U.S. Department of Justice; Robert J. Verdeyen, director of the Standards and Accreditation Department for ACA; and Ira J. Silverman, professor at the University of South Florida.

Stinchcomb gave an overview of her upcoming textbook, Corrections: A Comprehensive View, Sixth Edition, whose original author was Vernon Fox, a longtime corrections scholar. The book is divided into four major sections, each containing four or five chapters. The first part discusses the nature and function of corrections. Part 2 looks at correctional services, practices and institutions. The next section examines custody, treatment, confinement and release of institutional inmates and the final section addresses special topics, legal issues and the future of corrections.

Announcing that BJS is releasing a new study, Beck shared with the audience an overview of inmates in the U.S. correctional system. The report, Prisoners 2000, shows that 1,381,892 inmates were under the jurisdiction of federal or state correctional authorities at year-end 2000. Also at this time, 91,612 women -- 6.6 percent of all prison inmates -- were in state or federal prisons. Since 1990, the number of males inmates has grown 77 percent (reaching 1,290,280), while the number of female inmates has increased by 108 percent. Beck noted that in the second half of 2000, the state prison population declined by about 6,200 inmates (down .5 percent) -- the first decline in the state prison population since 1972.

Verdeyen then discussed ACA's accreditation process. "AS a warden, I didn't volunteer to join the accreditation process," Verdeyen said. Instead, his director at the time felt it was the right thing to do and recognized the importance of the process. Verdeyen noted that in 1995, ACA President Bobbie Huskey encouraged the move from process-based to performance-based standards. "We now want to know how effective we are," Verdeyen said. He also pointed out that ACA has just released performance-based standards for health care. "Now there is a process in place to tell others how effective we are, what we're doing and why."

Another author and professor, Silverman, also gave an overview of his new book, Corrections. A Comprehensive View, Fifth Edition. Silverman decided to write his own textbook because he was unsatisfied with the depth of coverage of textbooks he had used in the classroom. He noted that in the death penalty section, various chaplains gave him insight into how they counsel the condemned. Silverman also said his book discusses the life without parole sentencing option. "It costs more to execute someone than to keep him or her in prison," Silverman said. In the book, he also examines topics such as the history of the Southern prison system, mothers in prison and effective correctional programs.

The final panelist, Maloy, talked about professional certification. He noted that 32 people took ACA certification exams in Philadelphia, including exams for correctional officers, managers and executives. This is a substantial increase from the seven who took the exams last year. Maloy said the exam for supervisors is being developed. "We work in a very professional field and we need standards by which to compare ourselves," Maloy said, adding, "Look at how far accreditation has come in the last 15 years. This certification process reflects our knowledge." Finally, all five panelists made themselves available at individual stations for questions about their programs, books and research.

Youthful Offenders in Adult Systems

As the number of youthful offenders entering adult systems continues to rise, the difficulties of this unique group increase as well, placing many challenges on the adult facilities and demanding much attention from juvenile offenders who are considered adults by the courts.

William Sturgeon, consultant for the Institute for Adult Education and Training Inc. in Pittsfield, Mass., and J. Barry Johnson, superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Pine Grove in Indiana, Pa., challenged workshop attendees to view juveniles in adult systems as a separate population with different needs. They also examined the specific demands of this population and offered possible solutions to these challenges during this four-hour workshop.

Sturgeon began by emphasizing the importance of the planning process. Once in place, facilities must build in the changes the plan intends and reinforce its goals. The planning window includes four essential aspects: paper, people, places and materials.

First, policies and procedures must be assessed and reviewed. If something needs to be amended, professionals must take an in-depth look at what needs to be changed. Also, disciplinary actions must be immediate, programs must be structured, and every aspect of policies and procedures should focus on behavior and performance and building each juvenile's inner core.

Second, staff must be well-trained and it is essential for facilities to establish sound relationships with criminal justice officials, including police departments, courts, aftercare, judges, lawyers and parole officers. Educating politicians about policies, procedures and challenges the facilities face, and about juveniles in adult systems in general, also is important because they fund the majority of the programs. Further, it is essential for juveniles to keep in touch with their families and for facilities to establish a relationship with these families.

Third, the environment in which juvenile offenders complete their orientation, live and recreate is an essential aspect that affects their behavior. "We have to switch and make our systems work for us, rather than against us," said Sturgeon.

Fourth, materials for juvenile offenders in adult systems are essential, including medical, dental, educational and psychosocial instruments, and educational and recreational materials.

Correctional officers must be aware of the wide variety of differences between juvenile and adult offenders. Johnson gave a detailed presentation of these differences. For example, juveniles' anti-social attitudes need to be addressed immediately, because most do not understand the difference between right and wrong. Thus, officers must learn how to communicate with them.

In order to deal with these differences and relate to juvenile offenders, staff must have a clear understanding of group dynamics and the effects of peer influence. They also must realize that each offender needs individual treatment due to the fact that some juveniles are developmentally delayed whether it be physically, emotionally, socially or educationally. In addition, programs need to be highly structured and address education, drug and alcohol counseling, and life skills. Staff also must have a high level of contact with the offenders. More mature, self-confident officers with a high tolerance for frustration, good mentoring and communication skills and who can think outside the box are recommended to work with juvenile offenders in adult systems.

With these suggestions and observations, it is hoped that juveniles in adult systems will become a more manageable population, making everyday tasks, as well as life in general, easier for both staff and offenders.

Restorative Justice

Assisting inmates while they are incarcerated and once they are released to become productive, law-abiding citizens was discussed during the workshop, "Restorative Justice: Applying Principles in Institutions and After Release," by the Rev. Richard A. Swan, staff chaplain at Marion Correctional Institution in Marion, Ohio, and Thorn McMahon, division correctional service director of the Salvation Army in Milwaukee.

In Ohio, the newly developed Horizon Interfaith program at the Marion Correctional Institution already is making a difference in improving inmate behavior. Since last year, when 48 men enrolled in the 10-month program, there has not been one disturbance within interfaith housing, according to Swan. In fact, staff have found that nonparticipating inmates are nine times more likely be sent to solitary confinement than interfaith participants. "It shows it's doing what it's meant to do," Swan said.

The program is based on the three religions of Abraham -- Christianity, Judaism and Muslim -- because they have the same foundation and share common traits. Its mission is to provide inmates with the opportunity for spiritual enlightenment, inner growth and respect building. The focus is on learning to love God, oneself and others. Further, interfaith inmates learn life and faith lessons.

Most important, Swan said, is that inmates are in a place where they are comfortable practicing their religions. "Just being able to go down on your knees in front of your bunk without having people snicker around you makes all the difference in a prison atmosphere," he said.

Interfaith participants are taught basic religion by one of three spiritual leaders who represent each faith. Also, each inmate is matched up with an "outside brother," who visits weekly and acts as a spiritual mentor.

Another aspect of the program is letter writing. Program leaders help inmates make and maintain contact with their family members as a means of creating outside support. To date, nearly 100 percent of participants now have contact with someone with whom they lost touch. Inmates also learn conflict resolution based on scripture.

In February, interfaith inmates held an all-day interfaith conference to educate the general population inmates about Horizon Interfaith. About 130 people attended the event, which included outside speakers and exhibits.

Swan said correctional officers at the facility have noticed positive changes in the inmates: They are more respectful and have positive attitudes and better outlooks on their futures. Due to its success, Horizon Interfaith will be offered in two more Ohio dorms, including one at a women's prison.

Thom McMahon of the Salvation Army has been involved in aftercare and restorative justice for years and said he has found that the two go hand-in-hand when it comes to changing inmate attitudes and behaviors, and that both are time-consuming processes.

"McMahon shared several of his observations: First, you need to build trust with the inmates while they are still incarcerated, "Otherwise our words are empty." Second, if spiritual support is not there for inmates, the odds of them recidivating increase. It also is increasingly unlikely that they will embrace religion. Finally, if you have not told an inmate something 30 times, you have not told them at all: They need to hear things over and over again.

McMahon said if inmates receive help finding housing, employment, clothing and transportation, then the other important things in life, including mentoring, church, support and reconciliation with family, will follow. As a result, the inmates will develop their self-confidence, which will replace their fear.

-- Michele D. Buisch, Susan L. Clayton and Elizabeth A. Klug

ACA Honors E.R. Cass Award Recipients

Joseph D. Lehman

ACA's highest honor was bestowed upon Joseph D. Lehman and Virginia Swanson at the ER. Cass Awards Banquet, Wednesday, Aug. 15, in Philadelphia. The following citations are printed as they were read during the event.

Joseph D. Lehman is many things to many people -- a scholar, a pioneer, an advocate, a leader, a visionary and even a cheerleader, motivating others to be the best they can be. Above all, he is a shining example of the best of what corrections has to offer. During his more than 32 year career, Lehman has been a champion of rational sentencing, prison reform, community involvement, performance-based standards and victims' rights.

Lehman's lifetime of service began in 1969, when he became a parole and probation officer in Seattle. During the next 20 years, he served the Washington Department of Corrections in virtually every capacity. He was a field supervisor, administrator of the first Pre-Sentence Project, director of the Intensive Parole Project -- one of the first in the nation -- administrator of statewide work release, deputy director of field services, director of the Division of Prisons and deputy director of the department. His hard work and unwavering dedication have made a tremendous impact on staff, inmates, colleagues and lawmakers in Washington, as well as in Pennsylvania and Maine.

Lehman took charge of the Pennsylvania and, later, Maine prison systems during times of crisis. In 1990, he became secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections shortly after the Camp Hill riots. In 1995, he became commissioner of the Maine Department of Corrections, when the state was in the midst of a recession that required deep cuts in the prison budget. In both cases, Lehman successfully managed those crises. At the request of Gov. Gary Locke, Lehman returned to Washington in 1997 to become secretary of the Washington Department of Corrections. In addition to undertaking a massive reorganization of the department, he spearheaded development of new legislation known as the Offender Accountability Act.

A longtime ACA member, Lehman's contributions have served the association in a variety of ways, including as a member of the Resolutions and Policy Development Committee, the Delegate Assembly and the Proactive Correctional Management Task Force and chairman of the Restorative Justice Committee. From 1996 to 1999, he was chairman of the Standards Committee and led the move to performance-based standards.

In addition, Lehman has served as president of the Association of State Correctional Administrators and is on the National Justice Fellowship Board for restorative justice and the Washington Board for Corrections Standards and Jail Inspections. Somehow, he also has found the time to give speeches nationwide about correctional issues, write articles, teach and help create the National Campaign for an Effective Crime Policy.

Lehman's many accomplishments have been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Roscoe Pound Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, the Excellence in Government Award for Corrections, the Michael Francke Award for Excellence by the Association of State Correctional Administrators and the Maud Booth Correctional Services Award from the Volunteers of America.

For his devoted service to the field of corrections, ACA is proud to bestow its highest honor, the Edward R. Cass Correctional Achievement Award, to Joseph D. Lehman.

Virginia Swanson

Throughout her more than 40 years in juvenile corrections, Virginia Swanson touched the lives of many people -- from her colleagues to her clients to her professional associates. She was dedicated to providing juveniles and their families with the best services and to enhancing community corrections operations to the nation's highest standards.

Since 1956, Swanson has been involved in every facet of juvenile corrections, developing, managing and monitoring correctional and rehabilitative programs for Washington's youths. She began her career as a caseworker for children's services at which time she was responsible for adoption placements, home studies and foster care. Six years later, in 1962, Swanson became a parole officer for five counties in eastern Washington. By 1968, she was appointed supervisor of a Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration district parole office. In 1985, Swanson became a regional parole supervisor and held that position until 1995, when she was appointed regional administrator for the Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration. She supervised three community facilities, all of which have achieved ACA accreditation -- a unique accomplishment in Washington.

Swanson always approached her work, whether it is with juveniles, the courts, the public or attorneys, with professionalism and dignity. She treated each client and his or her family with kindness and respect and is quick to find their strengths -- something they could be proud of during their times of distress. She never lost sight of the fact that her clients were people, too. At the same time, she held them accountable for their behaviors, striking just the right balance between client needs and public safety.

During her career, Swanson also took a very active part in several professional organizations. She served as president of the Washington Correctional Association for 12 years and was honored with the Outstanding President Award in 1979. She also served as president of the Western Correctional Association and was named Outstanding Professional by the association in 1985. As a member of ACA, Swanson filled numerous roles: member of the Delegate Assembly, the Board of Governors and the Program Council; chair of the Juvenile Justice Committee; commissioner on the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections; and U.S. Ambassador with the Criminal Justice Delegation to China. Currently, she is the Nominating Committee chairwoman and a member of the Resolutions and Policy Development and the Women in Corrections committees.

Swanson's boundless energy also has kept her busy within her local community, where she has served on the Yakima County Campfire Board of Directors and is a member of the Yakima County Law and Justice Council and the Governor's Juvenile Justice Advisory Council.

This dedicated and hardworking woman knows juvenile corrections better than most, always encouraging proactive approaches for working with juvenile offenders. She is an outstanding example of the corrections profession.

For her devoted service to the field of corrections, ACA is proud to bestow its highest honor, the Edward R. Cass Correctional Achievement Award, to Virginia Swanson.

ACA's Second Charity Event Proves to Be Successful

For the second time, ACA's members, delegates and staff showed their generosity by supporting the American Correctional Association's (ACA) second silent auction for Habitat for Humanity. The auction raised more than $5,000 to benefit the popular organization.

Identical to the first auction held in Nashville during the 2001 Winter Conference, correctional agencies and other organizations donated a variety of items. Some of the crafts that winning bidders walked away with were an oak cedar chest; a stars and stripes, handmade rocking horse; a wood-crafted ship; handmade clocks; a crocheted afghan with ACA's logo; a Hard Rock Cafe denim jacket; artwork; a dozen of mosaic, handpainted eggs; and much more.

"ACA appreciates the support and donations that it receives from individuals, state departments of correction and other agencies," says James A. Gondles, Jr., executive director. "We are looking forward to contining what appears to be an ACA tradition, and it's all for a good cause," he said.

Looking ahead to the 2002 Winter Conference in San Antonio, staff already are preparing to send out donation request letters. So start thinking about what you would like to contribute to the next auction. It is the support and cooperation from our members, chapters and affiliates and other friends of ACA that help to make this event a success. Again, thank you for your generosity.

-- Dana M. Murray

Panel Tackles the Future of Corrections

Michele D. Buisch

The future of corrections, as discussed during the Closing Plenary Session, "Corrections in the Future and the Forces That Will Change What We Do and How We Do It," at the American Correctional Association's (ACA) 131st Congress of Correction in Philadelphia, Aug. 16, will be greatly impacted by changes in inmate populations and the nation's labor shortages.

Robert J. Brand, president of Solutions for Progress Inc., said, as evidenced in the latest census, Americans are accepting a "dangerous" level of polarization in society. For example, for families with the head of the household under 55, the median income has lowered since the last census, the racial wealth gap has increased by six times and one in five families has a negative net worth. "By income, we are polarizing more and more," Brand said. "This is a continuing and worsening trend that will affect everything," including crime rates and, ultimately, corrections.

Evelyn Ridley-Turner, commissioner of the Indiana Department of Corrections, discussed the disproportionate amount of minorities in the prison system. Ridley-Turner said mandatory sentencing accounts for some of the problem, i.e., possessing 5 grams of crack cocaine, which is used primarily by minorities because it is cheaper than powder cocaine, results in a five-year mandatory sentence by federal law. "That's just propelling this population into our system and then we wonder how it happens," she said.

Robert Lang, Ph.D., director of Urban and Metropolitan Research at the Fannie Mae Foundation, added that many children have been born to baby boomers, which may mean an increase in crime over the next decade, resulting in swelling prison populations. Those troubling conditions, along with the projected U.S. labor shortage of 4 million people by 2008, according to Brand, mean a challenging situation faces the corrections industry in the future.

Joann B. Morton, DPA, chairwoman of ACA's Vision Statement Task Force and an associate professor at the University of South Carolina College of Criminal Justice, has noticed a shift in the number of students pursuing law enforcement careers rather than correctional careers. In the past, she explained, one-third of her students were in the juvenile corrections program, one-third were in the adult corrections program and one-third were in the law enforcement program. Today, nearly 70 percent of the criminal justice students are pursuing law enforcement careers because they want to help people. Morton added that many do not identify corrections as a profession that helps people.

There are many reasons, Morton continued, for society's negative perception of corrections but mostly, it is due to politics. For example, directors and supervisors change each time a new governor is elected, creating a system based on politics not professionalism, which Morton said needs to change. Also, she said, working in a political environment makes it difficult "to stand up and say this is wrong."

Brand agreed: "We are stuck with a lousy system." He added that "vulgar" political candidates who run on public fear must be confronted and informed that corrections professionals are not simply jailers. He said changes are necessary and that people should not be incarcerated because they are mentally ill or addicted to drugs. However, it is difficult to convince politicians who are trying to get re-elected.

Ridley-Turner said she is very concerned about finding qualified people for corrections, explaining that in good economic times, people tend to leave corrections for more attractive jobs. It is a struggle to recruit and retain staff, she said, and she worries that if projections are correct and the nation's labor shortage reaches 4 million, then corrections "is really in trouble ... It's going to really impact what we do."

When asked what will be the biggest concern in corrections in 10 years, Lang said suburban crime and Brand said assertive actions to end poverty and polarization. Ridley-Turner said the concerns in 10 years will be the same as today, to which Morton added, "I hope we are smarter about it and I hope we're more proactive."

The Closing Plenary Session was delayed 30 minutes by a small group of protesters who demanded that inmates be included in the discussion. Standing before the audience of more than 80 people, five women, who later were joined by about seven more protesters, shouted a list of demands, including the humane treatment of inmates, rehabilitation and changes to ACA's accreditation process. The protesters then were interrupted by David Vaughan, a probation officer with the Philadelphia Adult Probation Department, who grabbed the microphone and sang several patriotic songs. Once police arrived, the meeting was moved to an adjacent room and the 12 protesters were arrested.

ACA Honors Correctional Award Winners

Each year at the Congress of Correction, several individuals and organizations are honored for their outstanding contributions to the corrections field. The American Correctional Association (ACA) would like to congratulate the following award recipients, as well as any others who were recognized in Philadelphia.

Correctional Industries Association

Rodli Award -- Pamela Jo Davis, CEO, PRIDE Enterprises (Fla.)

Staff Award -- Robert Baals, industrial manager I, DEPTCOR/New Jersey State Use Industries; Alton Bergeson, superintendent, license plate factory, Michigan State Industries; Patsy Grooms, business development manager, TRICOR (Tenn.); Ray Hendon, customer service supervisor, Arkansas Correctional Industries; and Jonah Kaauwai, program manager, Hawaii Correctional Industries

North American Association of Wardens and Superintendents

Warden of the Year -- Pamela K.

Withrow, Michigan

The Salvation Army

Chaplain of the Year -- Willis Pearl

Bode, Juvenile Research Center,

Canfield, Ohio

Volunteers of America - Massachusetts

Maud Booth Award -- Mary Q.

Hawkes

131st CONGRESS OF CORRECTION

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

MONDAY NIGHT EXHIBIT HALL RECEPTION

Philly Phlashback:

A Rock 'n' Roll Event

Congress attendees in Philadelphia dusted off their dancing shoes and got on the floor during ACA's Philly Phlashback: A Rock 'n' Roll Event in the Exhibit Hall. A variety of music from the American Bandstand era, as well as more recent tunes, helped attendees twist and hop their way through the hundreds of information packed exhibits.

ACA thanks our Exhibit Hall Reception Sponsors, Canteen, Cornell, Rosser, and Keefe, for making this event possible!

CANTEEN CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, A DIVISION OF COMPASS GROUP

2400 Yorkmont Road

Charlotte, NC 28217

[phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: Kurt Kimball, Executive Vice President-National Sales, North America Division

For nearly 25 years, Canteen Correctional Services has been a leading provider of food, commissary and vending support services to the corrections segment, currently providing services to over 153,000 residents in more than 150 correctional institutions. With Canteen's menu-management software, clients can streamline operations and control food costs. Canteen also leads the industry in commissary services. To ensure maximum security, a professionally trained team delivers orders directly to the facility or to the inmate population. Canteen's Windows[R]-based software system also enables clients to fully automate the commissary process and maximize commissions. The package even includes a Full Inmate Trust Accounting Program. Canteen offers the experience, knowledge, and resources to be the preferred provider to jails and prisons nationwide. For a no-obligation review of your current food and commissary service, call Canteen Correctional Services at [phone], ext. 4074.

Sponsors, your support makes this event possible!

CORNELL COMPANIES, INC.

1700 West Loop South, Suite 1500 * Houston, TX 77027

[phone]/[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web Site: www.cornellcompanies.com

Contact: Business Development Office

Cornell Companies, Inc. is a leading provider of privatized secure institutional, juvenile justice, pre-release and behavioral health services in the United States. The company offers an effective and efficient response to correctional and behavioral issues, as well as a low-cost alternative to public-run facilities. This is accomplished by providing integrated facility development, design, construction and operational service to governmental agencies. Cornell currently has contracts to operate 72 facilities located in 13 states and the District of Columbia with a total service capacity of 14,492.

KEEFE SUPPLY COMPANY

10880 Lin Page Place St. * Louis, MO 63132-1008

[phone]/[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: Rich Gray, Vice President, Sales

Keefe Supply Company is the nation's leading supplier of food and personal care products to prison and jail commissaries. Since 1975, we have provided quality products and services specifically designed for the correctional industry. Our product line includes more than 2,000 name brand and private label products, including our most recent in flexible packaging. Fresh Catch [R] Seafood, Brushy Creek[TM] Meals, Citrus Farms[TM] Juice Concentrates and Tokyo Diner[R] Meals are among the first product lines to help commissaries eliminate metal containers. Keefe also provides automated commissary service to correctional facilities through their affiliate, Keefe Commissary Network. The Windows [R]-based software can be integrated with various jail management systems to fit facilities' specific needs. Keefe's locations include: Denver (CO), Jacksonville (FL), Atlanta (GA), St. Louis (MO), Reno (NV), Edison (NJ), Cleveland (OH), Dallas (TX), Chesapeake (VA) and Seattle (WA).

ROSSER JUSTICE SYSTEMS!

ROSSER INTERNATIONAL, INC.

524 West Peachtree St., NW * Atlanta, GA 30308

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: Joy L. Matthews, Vice President, Business Development

Rosser Justice Systems is one of the nation's leading full-service practitioners of criminal justice planning, programming, consulting, architectural design and engineering. Rosser has completed more than 700 criminal justice programs in the past 50 years. The firm's design professionals include in-house electronic security and justice technology experts. These technical disciplines, combined with Rosser's operational experience, produce the most staff-efficient and cost-effective criminal justice projects in the Country.

131 CONGRESS OF CORRECTION

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

TUESDAY MORNING ExHIBIT HALL BREAK

HERSHEY HIGHLIGHT:

The Chocolate Drop-In

The sweet aroma of chocolate filled the Exhibit Hall Tuesday morning during the Congress Exhibit Hall Specialty Break Attendees took a breather while munching on Hershey chocolate treats, and participated in all kinds of fun activities, including the "Hot Ticket Game," which allowed attendees to visit exhibitors for a chance at winning Hershey chocolate dollars. While playing the game, attendees were reintroduced to the exciting products, services and technology offered at the hundreds of exhibitor booths.

ACA thanks its Sponsors, ARAMARK, AT&T, HKS and PHS for their support in making this chocolate event a real treat!

ARAMARK CORRECTIONAL SERVICES

1801 South Meyers Road

Third Floor

Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181

[phone]

Web Site: www.aramarkcorrectional.com

Contact: Daniel E. Jameson, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Celebrating its 25th anniversary in developing partnerships with state, county and community correctional facilities and detention centers, ARAMARK Correctional Services continues to lead the corrections marketplace in support service management. ARAMARK's tightly managed, customized programs help prisons and jails contain costs, increase efficiency, improve quality, meet ACA and other applicable standards and offer inmate vocational training. ARAMARK Correctional Services works in collaboration with jail and correctional administrators to provide cost-effective food service management, state-of-the-art commissary programs and comprehensive facility/building maintenance services, reducing the burden on your operation. For more information or to request a free on-site assessment of your current operation, call [phone], or visit their web site at www.aramarkcorrectional.com.

AT&T CORPORATION

295 N. Maple Avenue

Basking Ridge, NJ 07920

[phone]

Contact: Fran Frosoni-Gutierrez,

National Market Manager

AT&T Corporation is the world's premier communications and information services company, serving more than 90 million consumer, business and government customers. AT&T is able to design a telecommunications package specific to the corrections market through "The Authority [TM]," AT&T's Inmate Calling Service Program. This program offers an array of services, such as automated custom branding, call blocking and timing options, inmate identification systems and various levels of fraud protection, to meet the diverse needs of today's correctional facilities. These services are powerful and flexible tools that can be customized to fit your desired requirements. Because of the unsurpassed quality, consultive account management, competitive commissions and complete solutions, AT&T is able to offer a full range of services tailored for the correctional market.

HKS INC.

1919 MeKinney Avenue Dallas, TX 75201-1753

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Contact: John H. Richardson, Senior Vice President

HKS Inc., a nationally recognized architectural firm, founded in 1939, provides professional services in architecture, planning and engineering. HKS has offices in Atlanta; Dallas; Los Angeles; Orlando, Florida; Richmond, Virginia; Salt Lake City; and Tampa, Florida. HKS specializes in a diverse range of correctional facilities, including juvenile centers, prisons, jails, courts, special needs facilities for substance abuse, psychiatric care and medical examiner/crime laboratory facilities. HKS has been recognized for the seventh consecutive year by Modern Healthcare as the nation's number one health care facilities design firm. HKS is committed to designing facilities that are responsive to the unique needs and flexibility requirements of each client and is cost-effective in terms of construction and long-term maintenance and operational costs.

PRISON HEALTH SERVICES, INC. (PHS)

105 Westpark Drive, Suite 200

Brentwood, TN 37027

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Contact: Lawrence H. Pomeroy, SVP Marketing

Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS), founded the correctional managed healthcare field in 1978 and has been providing services to jails and prisons across the country for more than 20 years. PHS now provides services to approximately 200,000 detainees across 300 locations in 30 states. Our comprehensive medical, dental and mental health services are tailored to the unique needs of each client. With Secure Pharmacy Plus, which provides pharmaceutical management programs to correctional facilities, we serve more than 300,000 detainees in 40 states. Beyond cost-savings and risk-management benefits, we ensure quality of service through a rigorous physician/healthcare professional credentialling program and medical services that meet the standards of NCCHC, ACA and other accrediting bodies.

131st CONGRESS OF CORRECTION

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

Grand Prize Gtveaway

Approximately 2,000 attendees were on hand the final day of ACA's 131st Congress of Correction and each pictured themselves driving away in a brand new 2001 Oldsmobile Silhouette, which had been the shining center of attention all week long during the Congress. A hush swept the crowd in the Exhibit Hall as three finalists for the Grand Prize Giveaway Game were named and they converged on stage to try their lucky key in the ignition of this stylish minivan.

Finalist James LeBlanc, a warden of Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson, Louisiana, was the first to put his key into the ignition. In one quick motion, the engine started, and he emerged the winner.

"It was great! I was shocked. This is a once in lifetime thing for me!" LeBlanc said.

LeBlanc, who became the proud owner of a beige Silhouette that features an AM/FM stereo with CD player, dual sliding side doors, 4-wheel antilock brakes and side-impact air bags for both the driver and the front passenger, left the Exhibit Hall with a huge smile on his face I as he contacted his family in Louisiana by cell phone, informing them of the happy news.

The other finalists were Barbara Cadogan of Federal Bureau of Prisons in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Ann Gedgoudas of Jefferson Family Court of Birmingham, Alabama.

Cadogan, the second to be chosen out of the Grand Prize final drawing, won a tandem bicycle, following a coin toss.

"I was quite surprised. I never really won a prize before," Cadogan said.

Gedgoudas, the third place winner, didn't leave empty-handed, as she took home a brand new kids scooter.

"I think my heart stopped when I was named, Even if my key had fit, I don't think I could have turned it," Gedgoudas said.

COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTERS

75 Livingston Ave.

Roseland, NJ 07068

[phone], ext. 245

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web Site: www.cecintl.com

Contact: Dominic Lisa, Director of Business Development

Community Education Centers (CEC) provides a full range of correctional treatment services to adult and juvenile populations; comprehensive assessments, substance abuse treatment, educational services, social services, counseling, electronic monitoring and aftercare. CEC designs, constructs, owns and operates its facilities. The company currently operates 21 programs in eight states. New facilities will open later this year in Pennsylvania and Indiana. CEC offers services in both secured residential settings and in facilities where community access is available. Above all, CEC strives to provide the utmost in professional treatment in a healthy, drug-free, safe and secure environment.

DICK CORPORATION

P.O. Box 10896

Pittsburgh, PA 15236-0896

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Contact: John Sebastian, President - Building Division; David Burton, Vice President of Operations - Building Division; John Bonassi, Director of Business Development & Government Relations

Dick Corporation remains one of the nation's premier builders of correctional facilities. With a resume that includes work in 25 facilities comprising over 30,000 beds, the company has completed nearly $1.5 billion in correctional construction. Dick has successfully completed these projects under a variety of contract formats, including general contractor, construction management, design-build, design-build/leaseback and multi-prime. Dick has the resources to provide complete services to an owner, from site acquisition and design to construction and facility maintenance. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dick has performed work from coast to coast and has developed a strong offshore presence, including projects in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, Guam and Hawaii. Privately held since 1922, Dick Corporation welcomes you as a potential new client.

MCI WORLDCOM

2520 Northwinds Parkway, Suite 500

Alpharetta, GA 30040

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web Site: www.wcom.com/govt

Contact: Steve Montanaro, National Marketing and Sales Manager

The Department of Corrections division of MCI WorldCom Government Markets is the premiere provider of turnkey telecommunications solutions and managed service for state correctional departments. Today, MCI WorldCom provides inmate calling services to 16 state correction organizations. MCI WorldCom provides correctional departments with industry-leading solutions and service for comprehensive solutions to the complex world of correctional telecommunications needs. Global Tel [*] Link and MCI WorldCom recently formed a strategic marketing partnership. Through this partnership, we now offer the most technologically advanced equipment and the most reliable networking and customer service available in the corrections market today.

And the winner for making this Grand Prize event possible...

SCHLUMBERGER-GLOBAL TEL*LINK

Schlumberger

2609 Cameron Street

Mobile, AL 36607

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web Site: www.globaltellink.com

SMRT ARCHITECTURE ENGINEERING PLANNING

Contact: Joe Knntz, Corporate Communications Manager

Global Tel*Link, a wholly owned subsidiary of Schlumberger, is the manufacturer and service provider for the LazerPhone inmate call control system and the LazerVoice digital recording system. These cutting-edge systems are installed in municipal, county, state, federal and private correctional facilities throughout the United States -- including 10 state departments of correction. LazerPhone provides valuable capabilities such as on-site and remote alerts, fully integrated email, debit calling with complete call control, and detailed call reporting; LazerVoice offers keyword search, hot number alert, and comprehensive call monitoring capability. Furthermore, due to the sophisticated networking capabilities of these products, facilities can share information with other law enforcement officials such as federal agencies, state attorney's office, or special task forces.Global Tel*Link and MCI WorldCom maintain a strategic marketing partnership offering the most technologically advanced equipment, the most reliab le networking and the best customer service available in the corrections market today.

144 Fore Street

Portland, Maine 04101

[phone]

Fax [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: Philip F. Kaminsky, AlA, Principal/Justice Marketing Leader

SMRT's criminal justice team has extensive knowledge and experience in programming, designing and building prisons, pre-release centers and law enforcement centers. We are experienced in using Design/Build as well as traditional project delivery systems. Our proven track record for creating modern, cost-efficient and safe correctional facilities on time and on budget has kept us in the forefront of this industry. Our justice/corrections design and planning team consists of a dedicated staff of qualified architects and engineers with extensive justice/corrections experience.

Our Sponsors!

T-NETIX, INC.

1544 Vaiwood Parkway, Suite 102

Carrollton, TX 75006

[phone]/[phone]

Web Site: www.t-netix.com

Contact: Tom Larkin, President & CEO;

Art Heckel, Vice President, Sales & Carrier Relations East; Pete Meitzner, Vice President, Sales & Carrier Relations West

T-NETIX is a publicly held corporation, and is traded on the NASDAQ Exchange as "TNTX". The company is a leading provider of specialized call-processing and fraud-control software technologies, and is the nation's largest provider of corrections industry-related telecommunications services. Utilizing its patented voice verification technology and the Internet, T-NETIX monitoring division provides a cost-efficient solution for the supervision and monitoring of low-risk offenders. T-NETIX Inmate Services division provides advanced communication systems and solutions to more than 1,600 correctional facilities nationwide, and processes more than 1.5 million secured inmate call connections every day. These services are offered through partnerships with many of the largest communication companies in the world including AT&T, SBC, Qwest and Verizon.

WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCES, INC.

381 Mansfield Avenue

205 Greentree Commons

Pittsburgh, PA 15220

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Web Site: www.wexfordhealth.com

Wexford Health Sources, Inc. is a correctional health care company that offers a choice to its clients through responsibility, accountability and reliability. Wexford has been providing health care services for prisons and jails across the country for more than 10 years. We integrate various services to deliver patient care with maximum quality and efficiency. Our approach focuses on quality, streamlining operations and using economies of scale. All of Wexford's programs are designed to comply with the National Commission on Correctional Health Care and the American Correctional Association standards for medical services in jails and prisons. Wexford provides comprehensive health care programs that meet or exceed all federal, state and constitutional requirements, as well as any other applicable health care standards.

ACA Appreciates Its Generous Sponsors Support!

The American Correctional Association and its Congress Sponsors represent Our Principles: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Our generous Sponsors provided invaluable support for the 131St Congress of Correction. Their dedication to the American Correctional Association exemplified the Congress theme, "Our Principles: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow."

ARAMARK Correctiona1 Services

1801 South Meyers Road

Third Floor

Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181

[phone]

Web Site: www.aramarkcorrectional.com

Contact: Daniel E. Jameson, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Celebrating its 25th anniversary in developing partnerships with state, county and community correctional facilities and detention centers, ARAMARK Correctional Services continues to lead the corrections marketplace in support service management. ARAMARK's tightly managed, customized programs help prisons and jails contain costs, increase efficiency, improve quality, meet ACA and other applicable standards and offer inmate vocational training. ARAMARK Correctional Services works in collaboration with jail and correctional administrators to provide cost-effective food service management, state-of-the-art commissary programs and comprehensive facility/building maintenance services, reducing the burden on your operation. For more information or to request a free on-site assessment of your current operation, call [phone], or visit their web site at www.aramarkcorrectional.com.

AT&T Corporation

295 N. Maple Avenue

Basking Ridge, NJ 07920

[phone]

Contact: Fran Frosoni-Gutierrez, National Market Manager

AT&T Corporation is the world's premier communications and information services company, serving more than 90 million consumer, business and government customers. AT&T is able to design a telecommunications package specific to the corrections market through "The Authority [TM]," AT&T's Inmate Calling Service Program. This program offers an array of services, such as automated custom branding, call blocking and timing options, inmate identification systems and various levels of fraud protection, to meet the diverse needs of today's correctional facilities. These services are powerful and flexible tools that can be customized to fit your desired requirements. Because of the unsurpassed quality, consultive account management, competitive commissions and complete solutions, AT&T is able to offer a full range of services tailored for the correctional market.

R.R. Brink Locking Systems, Inc.

500 Earl Road

Shorewood, IL 60431

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Web Site: www.rrbrink.com

Contact: Charles R. Brink, President

R.R. Brink Locking Systems, Inc., is a manufacturer of a full range of high-security locks and accessories designed for the modern correctional facility. After more than two decades in business, R.R. Brink Locking Systems has a reputation for product quality, service and innovation. R.R. Brink Locking Systems pioneered the narrow-jamb type of electromechanical lock now used widely in minimum- and medium-security institutions. The company offers a complete range of locks and accessory items for key and/or remote electric door control. We invite you to inquire about our new sliding door locking and operating device, which is designed for retrofit applications, as well as new construction.

Canteen Correctional Services, A Division of Compass Group

2400 Yorkmont Road

Charlotte, NC 28217

[phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: Kurt Kimball, Executive Vice President-National Sales, North America Division

For nearly 25 years, Canteen Correctional Services has been a leading provider of food, commissary and vending support services to the corrections segment, currently providing services to over 153,000 residents in more than 150 correctional institutions. With Canteen's menu-management software, clients can streamline operations and control food costs. Canteen also leads the industry in commissary services. To ensure maximum security, a professionally trained team delivers orders directly to the facility or to the inmate population. Canteen's Windows [R]-based software system also enables clients to fully automate the commissary process and maximize commissions. The package even includes a Full Inmate Trust Accounting Program. Canteen offers the experience, knowledge and resources to be the preferred provider to jails and prisons nationwide. For a no-obligation review of your current food and commissary service, call Canteen Correctional Services at [phone], ext. 4074.

ACA takes pride in its Sponsors! Sponsors Equal Success!

Carter Goble Associates, Inc.

1619 Sumter Street

Columbia, SC 29201

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web Site: www.cartergoble.com

Contact: Colin C. Lovett, Director of Business Development

Carter Goble Associates, Inc., offers the following services to effectively manage change in the fields of criminal justice and corrections: Prisons, Jails, Detention Facilities, Courts--Adult & Juvenile

* System and Facility Master Planning

* Needs Forecasting

* Operations-based Programming

* Architectural Programming

* Renovation/Best-use Assessment

* Staffing Analysis

* Operational Design Oversight

* Transition Planning

* Strategic Planning

* Project Management

Community Education Centers

75 Livingston Avenue

Roseland, NJ 07068

[phone], ext. 245

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web Site: www.cecintl.com

Contact: Dominic Lisa, Director of Business Development

Community Education Centers (CEC) provides a full range of correctional treatment services to adult and juvenile populations; comprehensive assessments, substance abuse treatment, educational services, social services, counseling, electronic monitoring and aftercare. CEC designs, constructs, owns and operates its facilities. The company currently operates 21 programs in eight states. New facilities will open later this year in Pennsylvania and Indiana. CEC offers services in both secured residential settings and in facilities where community access is available. Above all, CEC strives to provide the utmost in professional treatment in a healthy, drug-free, safe and secure environment.

Cooper Lighting

1121 Highway 74 South

Peachtree City, GA 30269

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: Greg Deal, National Sales Manager

Correctional Lighting has been looking for the next step in products, and Fail-Safe has answered. Distinguishing itself as a quality manufacturer of energy-efficient products with more than 17 years of experience in the corrections field, the Fail-Safe brand of Cooper Lighting has developed the new "Low Profile Series." This line of slimmer products is dedicated for use with T8 and T5 lamp technology that has resulted in an overall height fixture profile as low as 2-5/8"! Having designed for more than 2,000 confinement institutions nationwide, Fail-Safe is the leader in new product development and the right choice for confinement lighting needs.

Cornell Companies, Inc.

1700 West Loop South, Suite 1500

Houston, TX 77027

[phone]/[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web Site: www.cornellcompanies.com

Contact: Business Development Office

Cornell Companies, Inc. is a leading provider of privatized secure institutional, juvenile justice, pre-release and behavioral health services in the United States. The company offers an effective and efficient response to correctional and behavioral issues, as well as a low-cost alternative to public-run facilities. This is accomplished by providing integrated facility development, design, construction and operational service to governmental agencies. Cornell currently has contracts to operate 72 facilities located in 13 states and the District of Columbia with a total service capacity of 14,492.

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)

10 Burton Hills Boulevard

Nashville, TN 37215

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: James H. Ball, Jr., Vice President, Sales and Customer Relations

Based in Nashville, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is the industry leader in private sector corrections with 65 facilities with 68,000 beds under contract or development in the United States and Puerto Rico. CCA offers a full range of services, including finance, design, construction, renovation and management of new or existing facilities, as well as long distance inmate transportation. CCA brings innovation, flexibility, efficiency and high standards of management to the correctional setting.

Dick Corporation

P.O. Box 10896

Pittsburgh, PA 15236-0896

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Contact: John Sebastian, President - Building Division;

David Burton, Vice President of Operations - Building Division;

John Bonassi, Director of Business Development & Government Relations

Dick Corporation remains one of the nation's premier builders of correctional facilities. With a resume that includes work in 25 facilities comprising over 30,000 beds, the company has completed nearly $1.5 billion in correctional construction. Dick has successfully completed these projects under a variety of contract formats, including general contractor, construction management, design-build, design-build/leaseback and multi-prime. Dick has the resources to provide complete services to an owner, from site acquisition and design to construction and facility maintenance. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dick has performed work from coast to coast and has developed a strong offshore presence, including projects in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, Guam and Hawaii. Privately held since 1922, Dick Corporation welcomes you as a potential new client.

ACA's Sponsors are always Winners!

Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Inc. (HOK)

71 Stevenson Street, Suite 2200

San Francisco, CA 94105

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Web Site: www.hok.com

John Eisenlau [phone] Atlanta

Cliff Isom [phone] Dallas

Charles Smith [phone] Los Angeles

Mike Frawley [phone] St. Louis

Chuck Oraftik [phone] San Francisco

Bill Prindle [phone] San Francisco

Duncan Broyd [phone] Tampa

Jim Kessler [phone] Washington, D.C.

HOK continues to be one of the nation's largest and most respected practitioners of justice services: programming, consulting, master planning, security, technology, architectural design, and engineering. Over the past 21 years, HOK projects have been recognized for excellence by joint ACA/AIA selection committees 87 times - more than twice as often as any other firm. The HOK Justice Group focuses on careful listening, effective communications, teamwork, and the delivery of flexible, efficient, and budget conscious facilities.

Hazelden Publishing and Educational Services

P.O. Box 176

Center City, MN 55012-0176

[phone]

Web Site: www.hazelden.org

Contact: Peter Bell, Executive Vice President

Hazelden is an internationally respected non-profit foundation dedicated to providing quality rehabilitation, education and professional services in chemical dependency and related areas. Hazelden began in 1949 and has since assisted millions of people through its wide array of services. They are dedicated to providing the most effective services and materials available for professionals in the corrections field. Hazelden offers flexible curricula, videos, recovery and education programs. Please contact Hazelden to inquire about "A New Direction: Mapping a Life of Recovery and Freedom," their upcoming comprehensive cognitive behavioral treatment program for criminal offenders tailored for short, medium or long term programs.

HDR Architecture, Inc.

8404 Indian Hills Drive

Omaha, NE 68114

[phone]

Contact: Michael Brenchley, Tom Vandeveer, Willia Akiyama,

Norman Dean, Harris Falkin, Glen Renfro or W. Alan Turley

HDR Architecture, Inc. (HDR), founded in 1917 as a civil engineering firm, has grown from a designer of utilities systems in the Midwest to the most dynamic, responsive health care and criminal justice design firm in the nation. HDR teams have led the planning, design or evaluation of over 230 justice projects. The firm's in-house team of specialists has worked together on projects of all sizes, levels of security, operational philosophies, budgets, schedules and delivery systems. HDR provides the following multi-disciplinary consulting services: architecture, engineering, interior design, security consulting, medical equipment planning, strategic planning, construction administration, technology systems planning and full-time, on-site representation.

Our Sponsors made it all Possible!

HEERY International, Inc.

999 Peachtree Street, NE

Atlanta, GA 30309

[phone]/(800) 52-HEERY

Fax: [phone]

Web Site: www.heery.com

Contact: Su Cunningham, Director, Corrections/Criminal Justice Programs

For two decades, HEERY has been a leader in the planning, programming, design and construction of criminal justice facilities in the United States. Their specialists in the field have a total of more than 100 years of experience providing a full array of professional services to the public; owners/clients and operators of state, federal and county prisons; county and city jails; federal, state and municipal courts; juvenile detention, correctional and court facilities; county and city police; and law enforcement facilities. Each HEERY

office throughout the United States offers an entire range of criminal justice services from concept development through completion. Their services include architecture, engineering, interior design, program, facility and construction management.

HKS Inc.

1919 McKinney Avenue

Dallas, TX 75201-1753

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Contact: John H. Richardson, Senior Vice President

HKS Inc., a nationally recognized architectural firm, founded in 1939, provides professional services in architecture, planning and engineering. HKS has offices in Atlanta; Dallas; Los Angeles; Orlando, Florida; Richmond, Virginia; Salt Lake City; and Tampa, Florida.

HKS specializes in a diverse range of correctional facilities, including juvenile centers, prisons, jails, courts, special needs facilities for substance abuse, psychiatric care and medical examiner/crime laboratory facilities. HKS has been recognized for the seventh consecutive year by Modern Healthcare as the nation's number one health care facilities design firm. HKS is committed to designing facilities that are responsive to the unique needs and flexibility requirements of each client and is cost-effective in terms of construction and long-term maintenance and operational costs.

HLM Design

121 West Trade Street

Suite 2950

Charlotte, NC 28202-5399

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Contact Robert Boyle, AIA, National Director of Justice Architecture

Criminal justice facilities demand innovative design, a consensus-building approach and operational understanding. HLM Design's solutions for complex correctional facilities address public sensitivities and social philosophies regarding safety, security, cost and efficiency. Courts and correctional facilities intertwine to create the nation's justice system; HLM Design creates the buildings that support its changing needs.

Take a bow Sponsors...

Jacobs Facilities Inc.

422 Ivy Mills Road

Glen Mills, PA 19342

[phone] JACOBS

Fax: [phone] FACILITIES

E-mail: [e-mail] Engineers, and

Web Site: www.jacohs.com

Contact: Stephen A. Donohoe, PMP,

Vice President & National Justice Market Leader

Jacobs Facilities Inc., a division of Jacobs Engineering, is a national leader in the criminal justice field with resources of more than 1,600 programmers/planners, designers, engineers, and construction professionals. Our team of justice specialists brings the experience of more than 100 justice facilities programs, valued at over $10 billion, and the capability to provide professional services to meet your every need. We provide Total Solutions including facilities planning, design, construction/program management, design/build, finance services, and more. Change is Good, and we've changed to better meet your changing needs. Call us today to see what's new!

Keefe Supply Company

10880 Lin Page Place

St. Louis, MO 63132-1008

[phone]/[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: Rich Gray, Vice President, Sales

Keefe Supply Company is the nation's leading supplier of food and personal care products to prison and jail commissaries. Since 1975, we have provided quality products and services specifically designed for the correctional industry. Our product line includes more than 2,000 name brand and private label products, including our most recent in flexible packaging. Fresh Catch(R) Seafood, Brushy Creek[TM] Meals, Citrus Farms[TM] Juice Concentrates and Tokyo Diner(R) Meals are among the first product lines to help commissaries eliminate metal containers.

Keefe also provides automated commissary service to correctional facilities through their affiliate, Keefe Commissary Network. The Windows(R)-based software can be integrated with various jail management systems to fit facilities' specific needs. Keefe's locations include: Denver (CO), Jacksonville (FL), Atlanta (GA), St. Louis (MO), Reno (NV), Edison (NJ), Cleveland (OH), Dallas (TX), Chesapeake (VA) and Seattle (WA).

...You deserve it!

McGregor Industries, Inc.

46 Line Street

Dunmore, PA 18512

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-Mail: [e-mail]

Web Site: www.mcgregorindustries.com

Contact: David Bland, CEO

McGregor Industries, Inc., is a nationwide Detention Equipment Contractor, and we manufacture and install structural steel and miscellaneous metal for your jail or prison project as well as large commercial projects. Since our beginning in 1919, quality and customer service have been our hallmark. Through our offices in Pennsylvania, New York, Chicago and Northern California, we can meet your jail and prison new construction and renovation security system needs. We can provide you either pneumatic or electromechanical locking systems and, with our relationship with ASSA, can help you develop a high-security keying approach that includes your entire building. Contact Henry Vancleave at 1-800-326-6786 ext. 22.

MCI WorldCom

2520 Northwinds Parkway, Suite 500

Alpharetta, GA 30040

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web Site: www.wcom.com/govt

Contact: Steve Montanaro, National Marketing and Sales Manager

The Department of Corrections division of MCI WorldCom Government Markets is the premiere provider of turnkey telecommunications solutions and managed service for state correctional departments. Today, MCI WorldCom provides inmate calling services to 16 state correction organizations. MCI WorldCom provides correctional departments with industry-leading solutions and service for comprehensive solutions to the complex world of correctional telecommunications needs. Global Tel [*]Link and MCI WorldCom recently formed a strategic marketing partnership. Through this partnership, we now offer the most technologically advanced equipment and the most reliable networking and customer service available in the corrections market today.

MinSec Companies

101 N. Providence Road

Wallingford, PA 19086

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: Frank Lalley, Director of Business Development

The MinSec Companies are rapidly becoming the largest providers of community corrections services and corrections-based substance abuse treatment in Pennsylvania. MinSec offers comprehensive programs and services in state-of-the-art facilities. Services include inpatient and outpatient substance abuse treatment programs, case management services, life skills training, and educational and work-release programs. A growth-oriented company, MinSec currently has nearly 400 beds under management, and is in the process of developing additional program and facility prospects.

We, at ACA, applaud our Sponsors!

Pinnacle Electronic Systems, Inc.

1157 Phoenixville Pike, Suite 107

West Chester, PA 19380

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: W. Dale Bishop, Vice President, Sales, or Jim Hockenbury, System Sales Consultant

Pinnacle Electronic Systems, Inc., is a systems integration company that can provide a variety of services, ranging from complete turnkey system design and implementation to a specialized design build concept with large project teams. Our focus is on security systems through applications integration. We are able to supply our clients with prompt professional service and attentiveness to their security requirements. Incorporated in our systems are features that include: complete PLC system design using touch screen technology, door control, card access, video imaging, parking gate control, energy management, time and attendance, CCTV, and perimeter control.

Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS)

105 Westpark Drive, Suite 200

Brentwood, TN 37027

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Contact: Lawrence H. Pomeroy, SVP Marketing

Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS), founded the correctional managed healthcare field in 1978 and has been providing services to jails and prisons across the country for more than 20 years. PHS now provides services to approximately 200,000 detainees across 300 locations in 30 states. Our comprehensive medical, dental and mental health services are tailored to the unique needs of each client. With Secure Pharmacy Plus, which provides pharmaceutical management programs to correctional facilities, we serve more than 300,000 detainees in 40 states. Beyond cost-savings and risk-management benefits, we ensure quality of service through a rigorous physician/healthcare professional credentialling program and medical services that meet the standards of NCCHC, ACA and other accrediting bodies.

RNL Design

1515 Arapahoe Street

Tower 3, Suite 700

Denver, CO 80202

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Contact: Florian Walicki, Principal--Institutional Studio; Steve Radomski, Associate Principal; or Chuck Boxwell, Associate Principal [phone] (Los Angeles)

As a national architectural, planning and engineering firm with offices in Denver, Colorado; Phoenix, Arizona; Orange County, California; and Los Angeles, California, RNL Design is pleased to support ACA's 131st Congress of Correction. RNL's Institutional Studio provides a full spectrum of consulting and design services for the fast-paced changes facing the corrections and mental health/treatment field. The Studio's experience includes a broad range of adult jail and prison, special needs, secure treatment centers for SVP and mental health facilities. RNL's extensive portfolio of juvenile detention/commitment and juvenile mental health facility planning and design is an indicator of RNL as a true specialist in this challenging discipline. From master planning the future system-wide facility needs of a jurisdiction to designing a new breed of secure treatment centers and juvenile mental health facilities, RNL offers a full range of services, including program planning, needs assessment, project financing, publ ic relations, architectural design, facility analysis, engineering systems design and coordination, and construction facilitation.

Thank You Sponsors!

Rosser Justice Systems/Rosser International, Inc.

524 West Peachtree St., NW

Atlanta, GA 30308

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: Joy L. Matthews, Vice President, Business Development

Rosser Justice Systems is one of the nation's leading full-service practitioners of criminal justice planning, programming, consulting, architectural design and engineering. Rosser has completed more than 700 criminal justice programs in the past 50 years. The firm's design professionals include in-house electronic security and justice technology experts. These technical disciplines, combined with Rosser's operational experience, produce the most staff-efficient and cost-effective criminal justice projects in the country.

Schlumberger-Global [Tel.sup.*]Link

2609 Cameron Street

Mobile, AL 36607

(334) 4794500

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web Site: www.globaltellink.com

Contact: Joe Kuntz, Corporate Communications Manager

Global [Tel.sup.*]Link, a wholly owned subsidiary of Schlumberger, is the manufacturer and service provider for the LazerPhone inmate call control system and the LazerVoice digital recording system. These cutting-edge systems are installed in municipal, county, state, federal and private correctional facilities throughout the United States -- including 10 state departments of correction. LazerPhone provides valuable capabilities such as on-site and remote alerts, fully integrated email, debit calling with complete call control, and detailed call reporting; LazerVoice offers keyword search, hot number alert, and comprehensive call monitoring capability. Furthermore, due to the sophisticated networking capabilities of these products, facilities can share information with other law enforcement officials such as federal agencies, state attorney's office, or special task forces. Global [Tel.sup.*]Link and MCI WorldCom maintain a strategic marketing partnership offering the most technologically advanced equipment, the most reliable networking and the best customer service available in the corrections market today.

SBC Public Communications

6035 Randolph Boulevard

San Antonio, TX 78233

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: Danny Ruiz, Regional Vice President of Public Communications

SBC Public Communications understands that in your industry there's no room for mistakes. SBC has provided superior Inmate Calling Systems for 22 years. In that time we've learned that the only solution is the one that fits your needs. Our partnerships with many capable manufacturers means we're not tied to a specific platform, so you get the right equipment for the job. We design the easiest and most comprehensive solution specifically for you. As your single source provider, we arrange for your local and long distance calling and equipment, and now we've implemented programs to help inmate's families manage calling costs. That means you can spend your time doing your job, instead of coordinating multiple vendors or dealing with customer complaints. We're proud of the service we offer. Every call you make to our 24/7 service center is a priority. Our locally based technicians will be available to you for the quick repairs your industry demands. Our financial resources give us versatility to keep pace with yo ur industry's changing needs. That's peace of mind today and in the years to come. Call SBC Public Communications for the most complete Inmate Calling System, 1-800-809-0878.

Sponsors, You make a difference!

Second Chance Body Armor, Inc.

7915 Cameron Street

P.O. Box 578

Central Lake, MI 49622

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Contact: Elizabeth Sonnabend, Marketing Director

Twenty-first century concealable, soft body armor is the patented concept of Richard C. Davis, inventor and president of Second Chance Body Armor, Inc. Consistent research and implementation of new ideas have kept Second Chance a leader in the competitive body armor industry. The latest high-tech ballistic and "spike armor" materials, streetwise experience and practical application in personal defense situations will keep Second Chance a leader as it meets the challenges of the new millennium.

Science Dynamics Corporation (SciDyn)

1919 Springdale Road

Cherry Hill, NJ 08003

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Web Site: www.scidyn.com

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: Joe Giegerich, Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Science Dynamics Corporation (SciDyn) with more than 20 years of telecommunication experience provides correctional facilities with an effective solution for managing and controlling inmate telephone calls. SciDyn's Call Control System provides a wide array of editable call control parameters, collect and debit calling, advanced call monitoring, real-time call recording, and our own patented three-way call detection. Our system also Incorporates the latest Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology to decrease transport costs and increase profits. For more information, please visit our web site at www.scidyn.com.

Screened Images Multimedia (SIM)

159 Burgin Parkway

Quincy, MA 02169

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Web Site: www.simworld.com

Contact: Jay Monaghan, Business Development

SIM, creator of the award-winning Correction Connection Network at www.corrections.com, is the leading producer of web-based training, interactive web sites, Internet software, CD-ROMs, training videos, and online training modules for corrections and criminal justice clients. With more than 35 years combined experience in Internet/Intranet development, computer programming, graphic design, computer information systems and live satellite broadcasts, SIM

has built more multimedia applications for corrections clients than any other company in the world. Its Corrections Connection Network is the Largest Online Business-to-Business and News & Information Resource in Corrections, receiving more than 8 million hits per month. SIM remains the leader in Inmate Orientation Videos and customized Officer Training Videos in English, Spanish and Sign Language. As a key provider of Distance Learning and Online Training services, SIM recently launched Crimcast (www.cirmcast.com), the premier online training program for feder al, state and county correctional agencies and facilities. Their clients include: The American Correctional Association, American Jail Association, Correctional Accreditation Managers' Association, National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, National Major Gang Task Force, The Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention and Eastern Kentucky University Training Resource Center.

A round of applause for Our Sponsors!

Securicor New Century, LLC

9609 Gayton Road, Suite 100

Richmond, VA 23233

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: Charles J. Kehoe, Vice President

Securicor New Century, LLC, based in Richmond, Virginia, believes in the importance of a public-private partnership, which is based on a shared vision of how juvenile offenders should be treated, mutual trust and respect, and a commitment to state and national standards of practice. Securicor New Century offers a new choice to government when it needs private correctional services--a choice that stands for uncompromising service excellence plus the resources and corporate maturity to ensure customer satisfaction and public safety. Securicor New Century is committed to delivering quality services at a fair price and will not sacrifice "good practice" for the "bottom line." Securicor New Century provides comprehensive juvenile justice services to local and state governments by managing and operating innovative secure juvenile correctional facilities, residential services and day treatment centers. Securicor New Century also provides training, technical assistance and consultation services to juvenile and adult correctional agencies.

SMRT Architecture Engineering Planning

144 Fore Street

Portland, Maine 04101

[phone]

Fax [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: Philip F. Kaminsky, AIA, Principal/Justice Marketing Leader

SMRT's criminal justice team has extensive knowledge and experience in programming, designing and building prisons, pre-release centers and law enforcement centers. We are experienced in using Design/Build as well as traditional project delivery systems. Our proven track record for creating modern, cost-efficient and safe correctional facilities on time and on budget has kept us in the forefront of this industry. Our justice/corrections design and planning team consists of a dedicated staff of qualified architects and engineers with extensive justice/corrections experience.

T-NETIX, Inc.

1544 Valwood Parkway, Suite 102

Carrollton, TX 75006

[phone]/[phone]

Web Site: www.t-netix.com

Contact: Tom Larkin, President & CEO; Art Heckel, Vice President, Sales & Carrier Relations East; Pete Meitzner, Vice President, Sales & Carrier Relations West

T-NETIX is a publicly held corporation, and is traded on the NASDAQ Exchange as "TNTX". The company is a leading provider of specialized call-processing and fraud-control software technologies, and is the nation's largest provider of corrections industry-related telecommunications services. Utilizing its patented voice verification technology and the Internet, T-NETIX monitoring division provides a cost-efficient solution for the supervision and monitoring of low-risk offenders. T-NETIX Inmate Services division provides advanced communication systems and solutions to more than 1,600 correctional facilities nationwide, and processes more than 1.5 million secured inmate call connections every day. These services are offered through partnerships with many of the largest communication companies in the world including AT&T, SBC, Qwest and Verizon.

ACA tips its hat to Our Sponsors!

Turner Construction Company

9190 Priority Way West Drive, Suite 210

Indianapolis, IN 46240

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: Mary K. McHatton, Vice President, Criminal Justice

Established in 1902, Turner has developed a reputation as a leader in providing building construction services. For more than 25 years, the company has been building facilities for the nation's justice system, including jails, prisons, justice centers, judicial buildings and law enforcement and juvenile facilities. With more than 170 justice projects, Turner is firmly established as the number one justice builder in the industry. Over the past ten years, Turner has averaged the completion of one justice project per month, and plans to continue that pace for the next several years. Staff members work on justice facilities projects in a team-oriented fashion with the goal of exceeding client expectations. Turner's history of completing quality projects ahead of schedule and within budget often prompts clients to choose the company again for subsequent justice or general building projects.

URS

277 West Nationwide Boulevard

Columbus, OH 43215

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Web Site: www.urscorp.com

Contact: Allen L. Patrick, FAIA, NCARB,

Director of Criminal Justice Facilities

URS is a full-service professional architectural, design, engineering, planning and interior design firm with 140 principal offices providing a diverse range of professional services to public and private clients nationwide. Their Criminal Justice Center of Excellence is headed by Allen L. Patrick, FAIA, NCARB, who for more than 30 years has been a nationally recognized leader in the field of criminal justice facility planning and design. URS specializes in the planning and design of correctional facilities ranging from juvenile rehabilitation, detention and training schools to adult prisons, jails and correctional institutions. URS utilizes a program-driven design process that insures facilities are safe and secure, economical to build and operate, and meet the multiple needs of our justice and administrative clients.

Sponsors, thanks for your generosity!

Verizon Public Communications Group

13100 Columbia Pike, D32

Silver Spring, MD 20904

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web Site: www.verizon.com/corrections

Contact: Maria E. Riddick, National Manager

Corrections/Government Products & Markets

Verizon Advanced Corrections Services is a total solution to the telecommunications needs of your industry with a package tailored to your needs and requirements, and provides a single point of contact that specializes in the corrections industry. We install all of the pay-phones; handle all call processing, design and implement network needs; and provide call recording and monitoring equipment, voice print identification and many other specialized applications. A key application of Advanced Corrections Services is [IntelliFraud.sup.sm], a powerful tool in detecting suspicious calling trends and fighting fraud in correctional facilities. If the system detects a problem, our Fraud Mitigation Task Force will step in and work with you to set up controls and to stop fraud. We build and mount our heavy-duty corrections pay-phones to do a long stretch of time, but if you do experience any problems, our service centers are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. At Verizon, we offer our services at fair rates to inmat es' families and a variety of attractive commission and incentive programs for the correctional facility.

Wackenhut Corrections Corporation

4200 Wackenhut Drive

Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410-4243

[phone]/[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web Site: www.wcc-corrections.com

Contact: Ron Maddux, Vice President, Business Development

Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (WCC) (NYSE: WHC) is a leading worldwide provider of privatized correctional management services. As experts in the development and implementation of business solutions that meet the diverse correctional management needs of government agencies, we provide:

* innovative, turnkey programs for design, construction, financing and management of state-of-the-art correctional facilities

* development and management of medical and mental health rehabilitation facilities and services

* diversified services including electronic monitoring, prisoner transport and facility maintenance

At year-end 2000, WCC held 57 contracts around the world. The 40,000 beds in North America, Europe, Australia, Africa and New Zealand represent a 22 percent share of the U.S. private correctional market and a 55 percent share of the international market.

Sponsors are Dedicated Professionals!

Wexford Health Sources, Inc.

381 Mansfield Avenue

205 Greentree Commons

Pittsburgh, PA 15220

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Web Site: www.wexfordhealth.com

Wexford Health Sources, Inc. is a correctional health care company that offers a choice to its clients through responsibility, accountability and reliabilty. Wexford has been providing health care services for prisons and jails across the country for more than 10 years. We integrate various services to deliver patient care with maximum quality and efficiency. Our approach focuses on quality, streamlining operations and using economies of scale. All of Wexford's programs are designed to comply with the National Commission on Correctional Health Care and the American Correctional Association standards for medical services in jails and prisons. Wexford provides comprehensive health care programs that meet or exceed all federal, state and constitutional requirements, as well as any other applicable health care standards.

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

E. R. CASS AWARDS RECEPTION

The E.R. Cass Correctional Achievement Awards celebration was as joyous and elegant as ever for all who participated in the evening's black-tie gala event. Guests had a chance to reflect on the theme of this year's Congress, and most of all pay tribute to this year's E.R. Cass Awards recipients, Joseph D. Lehman and Virginia Swanson. Following the presentation of awards and a few inspirational words from both Lehman and Swanson, The Spinners and the World Classic Rockers took over the spotlight and kept those on hand dancing into the night.

Thank you URS, for sponsoring the E.R. Cass Awards Reception.

URS

277 West Nationwide Boulevard

Columbus, OH 43215

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

Web Site: www.urscorp.com

Contact: Allen L Patrick, FAIA, NCARB,

Director of Criminal Justice Facilities

URS is a full-service professional architectural, design, engineering, planning and interior design firm with 140 principal offices providing a diverse range of professional services to public and private clients nationwide. Their Criminal Justice Center of Excellence is headed by Allen L. Patrick, FAIA NCARB, who for more than 30 years has been a nationally recognized leader in the field of criminal justice facility planning and design. URS specializes in the planning and design of correctional facilities ranging from juvenile rehabilitation, detention and training schools to adult prisons, jails and correctional institutions. URS utilizes a program-driven design process that insures facilities are safe and secure, economical to build and operate, and meet the multiple needs of our justice and administrative clients.

kept the banquet rocking all night!

The Spinners, bringing the music with harmony, style, elegance, and a lot of soul.

Guests at the Cass Awards Banquet grooved to the music of The Spinners and the World Classic Rockers. The Spinners added some soul to the evening with "Then Came You," "I'll Be Around" and "Games People Play." The World Classic Rockers kept the party going by cranking out one memorable hit after another as everyone danced to "Hotel California," "Born to Be Wild" and "Gimme Some Lovin'."

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)

10 Burton Hills Boulevard

Nashville, TN 37215

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: James H. Ball, Jr., Vice President, Sales and Customer Relations

Based in Nashville, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is the industry leader in private sector corrections with 65 facilities with 68,000 beds under contract or development in the United States and Puerto Rico. CCA offers a full range of services, including finance, design, construction, renovation and management of new or existing facilities, as well as long distance inmate transportation. CCA brings innovation, flexibility, efficiency and high standards of management to the correctional setting.

HEERY International, Inc.

999 Peachtree Street, NE

Atlanta, GA 30309

(404) 88 1-9880/(800) 52-HEERY

Fax: [phone]

Web Site: www.heery.com

Contact: Su Cunningham, Director, Corrections/Criminal Justice Programs

For two decades, HEERY has been a leader in the planning, programming, design and construction of criminal justice facilities in the United States. Their specialists in the field have a total of more than 100 years of experience providing a full array of professional services to the public; owners/clients and operators of state, federal and county prisons; county and city jails; federal, state and municipal courts; juvenile detention, correctional and court facilities; county and city police; and law enforcement facilities. Each HEERY office throughout the United States offers an entire range of criminal justice services from concept development through completion. Their services include architecture, engineering, interior design, program, facility and construction management.

SBC Public Communications

6035 Randolph Boulevard

San Antonio, TX 78233

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Contact: Danny Ruiz, Regional Vice President of Public communications

SEC Public Communications understands that in your industry there's no room for mistakes. SBC has provided superior Inmate Calling Systems for 22 years. In that time we've learned that the only solution is the one that fits your needs. Our partnerships with many capable manufacturers means we're not tied to a specific platform, so you get the right equipment for the job. We design the easiest and most comprehensive solution specifically for you. As your single source provider, we arrange for your local and long distance calling and equipment, and now we've implemented programs to help inmate's families manage calling costs. That means you can spend your time doing your job, instead of coordinating multiple vendors or dealing with customer complaints. We're proud of the service we offer. Every call you make to our 24/7 service center is a priority. Our locally based technicians will be available to you for the quick repairs your industry demands. Our financial resources give us versatility to keep pace with yo ur industry's changing needs. That's peace of mind today and in the years to come. Call SBC Public Communications for the most complete Inmate Calling System, 1-800-809-0878.

Verizon Public Communications Group

13100 Columbia Pike, D32

Silver Spring, MD 20904

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web Site: www.verizon.com/corrections

Contact: Maria E. Riddick, National Manager

Corrections/Government Products & Markets

Verizon Advanced Corrections Services is a total solution to the telecommunications needs of your industry with a package tailored to your needs and requirements, and provides a single point of contact that specializes in the corrections industry. We install all of the pay-phones; handle all call processing, design and implement network needs; and provide call recording and monitoring equipment, voice print identification and many other specialized applications. A key application of Advanced Corrections Services is IntelliFraud [sm], powerful tool in detecting suspicious calling trends and fighting fraud in correctional facilities. If the system detects a problem, our Fraud Mitigation Task Force will step in and work with you to set up controls and to stop fraud. We build and mount our heavy-duty corrections pay-phones to do a long stretch of time, but if you do experience any problems, our service centers are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. At Verizon, we offer our services at fair rates to inmates' fa milies and a variety of attractive commission and incentive programs for the correctional facility.