Award Winners.

ACA takes time to recognize exceptional individuals and agencies during each Congress of Correction. Congratulations to the following awardees who were honored during this summer's congress in New Orleans.

American Correctional Association

Blanche La Du Award:

South Carolina Correctional Association

E.R. Cass Correctional Achievement Award:

The Rev. Anthony J. Bruno and Arthur Leonardo

American Correctional Association Military Corrections Committee

Austin MacCormick Award:

Sgt. Maj. Mark A. Flowers, retired Flowers is director of ACA's Standards Department)

American Correctional Chaplains Association

Judith Coleman Chaplaincy Offender Program Award:

Chrysalis Community Program at York Correctional Institution, Niantic, Conn. The program is facilitated by the Rev. Laurie Etter, D. Min., CCM

Commission on Accreditation for Corrections

The Golden Eagle Award:

Mississippi Department of Corrections

Keohane Award:

Michael Bradley, director of accreditation for corrections, The GEO Group Inc.

The Walter E. Dunbar Award:

Sheriff Robert J. Garvey of the Hampshire County Sheriff's Office

North American Association of Wardens and Superintendents

Warden of the Year:

James Le Blanc, Dixon Correctional Institute (LeBlanc is now director of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections)

Medal of Valor:

Lionel G. Barley, senior storekeeper, Lansing Correctional Facility, Kansas Department of Corrections; Susan L. Canfield (deceased), correction officer, Wynne Unit, Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Salvation Army

Chaplain of the Year:

Mike Crowell, U.S. Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kan.

ACA Student Poster Session Winners Undergraduate

First place:

Lauren Beniost, Appalachian State University, "DARE to Keep Punishment Just: Examining Alternatives to Incarceration for Drug Addicted Offenders"

Second place:

Melissa L. Foster, Eastern Kentucky University, "Offender Manipulation Training"

Graduate

First place:

Shondra B. New, Eastern Kentucky University, "Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Treatment"

Second place:

Tamika Chase, Eastern Kentucky University, "Marijuana Usage and Delinquency: Preventing a New Generation of Inmates"

Volunteers of America

Maud Booth Correctional Services Award:

Marc Mauer, executive director, The Sentencing Project, Washington, D.C.

Certification

The following 16 candidates were certified at the New Orleans Congress on Aug. 9, 2008:

Armen Alexandrian, CCS, sergeant/work release case manager, Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Department, Lafayette, La.

Stephen E. Arnold, CCE, assistant director, Parole and Probation, Arkansas Department of Community Corrections, Little Rock, Ark.

Carolyn A. Atkins, CCE, warden, Maryland Correctional Institution--Jessup, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Jessup, Md.

Darryl Campbell Jr., CCM, executive management officer, Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, St. Gabriel, La.

Anthony E. Collins, CCO, sergeant, Dixon Correctional Institute, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Jackson, La.

Madelene Dageford, RN, CCN/M, nurse manager, Hennepin County Jail, Minneapolis

Albert M. Davis Jr., CCO, corrections officer, Slidell Police Department, Slidell, La.

Travis Day, RN, CCN, infectious disease nurse, Dixon Correctional Institute, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Jackson, La.

Stephen E. Easley, CCE, director, Corrections, MTC--Corrections Region II, Georgetown, Texas

Terry Grady Jr., RN, CCN, nurse supervisor, Dixon Correctional Institute, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Jackson, La.

Mark C. Ihedinma, CCO, correctional officer, DC. Department of Corrections

Christopher L. Kent, CCM, corporate compliance auditor, Wexford Health Sources Inc., Los Lunas, N.M.

Kevin Luper, CCS, corrections lieutenant, Rayburn Correctional Center, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Angie, La.

Jerry P. Miller, CCM, corrections major/investigations, Rayburn Correctional Center, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Angie, La.

Leon W. Spears, CCS, corrections lieutenant, Dixon Correctional Institute, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Jackson, La.

John S. Wolfe, CCE, warden, Jessup Correctional Institution, Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, Jessup, Md.