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Kathy Black-Dennis, director of ACA's Professional Development Department; Joyce Fogg, chair of ACA's Work Force Advisory Council; Joe Coffee, director of the National Partnership for Careers in Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security; and Chuck Kehoe, ACA past president and consultant with Group 4 Securicor.
On March 12, ACA came closer to realizing one of its work force initiatives - corrections recruitment at the high school level. During a three-day workshop at ACA headquarters in Alexandria, Va., criminal justice instructors, education consultants and professional development directors from correctional agencies in four states - Arkansas, Maryland, Michigan and Texas - came together to brainstorm ways to bring correctional education to students in high schools and community colleges.
The workshop, lead by four work force experts, marked a small step toward the fruition of a goal that ACA set for itself more than two years ago. Through collaboration with secondary education institutions and correctional agencies nationwide, ACA hopes to develop a standardized corrections curriculum that can be employed in high schools and technical colleges across the nation. After students complete the courses, they would...