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2001 Winter conference Overview, Nashville.

Corrections Professionals Tackle Issues Surrounding Training, Health and Safety The American Correctional Association (ACA) greeted more than 3,900 attendees at its 2001 Winter Conference in Nashville, Tenn. -- a record for an exclusively ACA winter conference. Corrections professionals from the United States and around the world attended this event. The theme, "Correctional Employees' Training, Health and Safety," which focused on the health and well-being of corrections practitioners, encompassed nearly 50 workshops and more than 500 exhibit booths showcasing a multitude of correctional products and services. For the first time ever, ACA hosted a silent auction for charity, which took place Saturday through Tuesday. The auction successfully raised $8,000 for Habitat for Humanity. Attendees were able to place bids on an array of items, from airfare and hotel packages to jewelry and crafts. There were 150 bidders and more than 100 items up for auction, donated by ACA members and a variety of agencies and companies. The Opening Session keynote address was delivered by Martin Luther King III, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who prompted a standing ovation from the audience before even uttering his first word. King noted the day as being one week after the national holiday honoring his father, Martin Luther King Jr., which he sees as a time for us to "rededicate ourselves and our lives to fulfilling the unfinished work." After King's powerful speech, the Hon. Helen G. Corrothers, past president of ACA, chair of its Correctional Awards Committee and former commissioner of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, announced the winners of the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Award and the Medal of Valor. After the Opening Session, former ACA president Maurice Sigler and author Sharon Johnson Rion were on hand for a special book signing of Beyond His Time: The Maurice Sigler Story, by Rion. Monday evening's Get-Acquainted Reception included a Little Italy Spaghettifest -- a spaghetti-eating contest attempted by several members of the Executive Committee, representatives of sponsoring companies and a member of the Tennessee Host Committee. Each contestant was faced with a huge plate of spaghetti, along with an apron and a chef's hat. After five minutes of swelled cheeks and sloppy faces, the contestants were stuffed and proud of their accomplishments. The onlooking crowd's enthusiasm determined the winner -- ACA President Betty Adams Green. The next day's Annual Luncheon speaker was Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams. Born into a military family, Adams grew up overseas on army bases until age 16, when his father was killed. When he moved back to America in 1961, he immediately got involved in the civil rights movement. "I was beaten up every week for several years," he said. "I would rather be beaten than silenced." Adams added, "Having something that matters to you, something that motivates you and something that you can surrender to is essential." He also stressed the importance of love and said in his experience, the most important thing in life is friends: "Friends are the best medicine." The keynote speaker at Wednesday's Closing Breakfast was Emory Austin, motivational and humorous speaker, who pleased the audience with her vibrant and inspiring storytelling. Austin's presentation was the perfect ending to the conference. After Austin's energetic address, ACA presented its Community Service and Peter P. Lejins Research awards. The following individuals received Certified Correctional Executive status during the conference: R. Bruce Barclift, jail administrator for the Calhoun County Sheriff Office in Alabama; E. Richard Bazzel, warden of ComCor Inc. in South Carolina; Donald W. DeWitt, warden of Ross Correctional Institution in Ohio; and John L. Ford III, assistant administrator of the Criminal Justice Center in Tennessee. Jennifer L. Harry 2001 Winter Conference Workshops Overview Attendees at the American Correctional Association (ACA) 2001 Winter Conference in Nashville, Tenn., had the opportunity to attend a multitude of workshops and seminars on various criminal justice and correctional topics. Below are highlights from a few of them. Managing Mentally Ill and Disruptive Offenders According to Dr. Robert Jones, medical director of the Montana Department of Corrections, 15 percent of male inmates and 25 percent to 30 percent of female inmates have some type of mental illness. Corrections professionals must pay special attention to these offenders, for they cannot be treated the same as general population inmates. "Assisting Officers in Managing Seriously Mentally Ill or Disruptive Offenders" provided attendees with ideas for creating behavioral management programs and managing and modifying the behavior of mentally ill and disruptive inmates. Jones acted as both the moderator and speaker of this workshop. To have a successful facility, correctional employees must know how to treat mentally ill and disruptive offenders. In his experience, Jones has found that officers who treat inmates with a caring and respectful attitude do not have as many problems with them. Those officers who do not give disruptive and mentally ill inmates special attention tend to have difficulties with them. Jones also noted that it is essential for correctional facilities and public heath practitioners to work closely together. Because many correctional employees do not know how to recognize mental illnesses, public health practitioners must help correctional employees identify, understand and learn how to treat these offenders. The most common mental illnesses with which correctional officers have to deal include major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and personality disorders such as antisocial behavior and borderline personality disorders. Jones said it is important to realize that mentally ill and disruptive offenders who act out are not capable of obeying rules because they do not understand them. How to manage each inmate varies and corrections professionals need to care for each individual and situation separately because no two inmates are alike. "By understanding why one acts or behaves a certain way and why one continues to do so, we are in a better position to know exactly how to change that behavior," said Jones. According to Jones, due to the daily obstacles correctional officers face, it is nearly impossible to maintain a continuum of care. Thus, it is essential for employees to be responsive toward and concerned for inmates. Jones also said that to manage mentally ill and disruptive offenders, it is essential for correctional employees to have concern for them and a desire to make them whole. "Being considerate is important, but you must be caring as well," says Jones. "Correctional employees are the medicine that will help these inmates." Security Threat Group Management Three of the nation's leading experts on gang management -- Commissioner Michael T. Maloney of the Massachusetts Department of Correction's (DOC) Executive Office of Public Safety in Boston; Brian Parry, assistant director of California's DOC; and commissioner Edward L. Cohn of the Indiana DOC -- gave an exciting, informative presentation on principles of security threat group (STG) management. In the workshop, "New Strategies for Identifying and Managing Security Threat Groups," moderated by Dale Welling, then director of the National Major Gang Task Force in California, the speakers offered tactics used by their respective departments, noting the common themes among them. What is known about prison gangs is that they are disruptive, violent and organized, involved in illegal activities and often attempt to disguise themselves and frequently attempt to intimidate staff. Also known are reasons that inmates join prison gangs, for example, they may be prior street gang members, are looking for identities, or are seeking profit, protection or power. Parry informed attendees that prison gangs in California DOC facilities direct street gangs on the outside, which causes more problems both inside and outside of prisons. One of the biggest mistakes made by correctional departments and agencies, according to Maloney, is observing strategies used in other states and taking the same approach. Although some elements are very similar, entire systems are not, therefore, each department must modify its strategies to fit its individual needs. "There is no cookie-cutter approach to STG management strategies," said Maloney. "Tailor them to your own system's needs." Maloney also offered gang management strategies used by his state, which include: punishment, separation, programs or a combination of these. Some critical issues to be considered by prison administrators are: what is expected to be accomplished, available resources, correctional philosophy, politics, legal aspects and extent of the current problem. Finally, STG management policy should include: identification, validation, consequences, renouncement, monitoring, communication between internal and external agency personnel, and education. With proper modification, these procedures should be a part of all departments' policies. All the speakers agreed that documentation is of extreme importance, as is training -- of every staff member, from janitorial to kitchen staff and from health services to custody staff. Also, a clear policy that both defines STGs and prohibits STG activity is absolutely necessary for all jurisdictions to avoid legal complications. Staff Certification Approximately 20 years ago, many corrections professionals were unfamiliar with accreditation. According to John J. Maloy, superintendent of the Albany Training Academy in New York, only one facility in the state was accredited at that time. Today, all 70 facilities, the academy and the main office are accredited. It is the hope of ACA, along with many corrections professionals, that staff certification one day will be as well-known as facility accreditation. "We hold our facilities to accreditation standards; why shouldn't we hold our employees to certification standards as well?" says Maloy. "it is the next logical step." Conference attendees were able to learn about ACA's certification program while attending the workshop, "Professional Development Through Staff Certification." Maloy was the moderator and Dr. Luella Burke, a correctional consultant from Scottsville, Mich., and Commissioner William Sondervan, Ed.D, CCE of the Division of Corrections for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services in Baltimore, were the speakers. In 1995, ACA began researching, brainstorming and creating plans to develop a certification program. After many meetings and discussions in 1998, a plan was presented to and approved by then President Richard Stalder. The idea became a work-in-progress and ACA developed the Commission on Correctional Certification, an independent board that helps with the format and content of the tests and then reviews each test. ACA also hired consultant Richard Jaffeson to write the certification tests. Last March, the commission met for the first time and reviewed the draft of the executive test. Many aspects of the test were debated and major revamping was completed. In August, the first test was given and seven correctional executives were certified. ACA plans to have a total of five different test levels. Last fall, the correctional managers' certification was completed. The test for correctional officers will be completed this spring and the correctional supervisors' test is expected to be finished early next year. When introduced to the idea of certification, Sondervan immediately saw its value. Sondervan, who believes training is the most important aspect in the corrections field, was one of the seven who became certified last August, and strongly advocates certification in the facilities throughout Maryland. He says the test is challenging, but essential for changing the culture of the corrections profession because it gives the public, legislature and grant donors a chance to see those in corrections as professionals. In addition, he says it is rewarding for correctional employees and enables them to realize certain aspects of corrections that often are overlooked in the daily schedule of correctional employees. Recertification is an important part of certification as well. Every three years, professionals must be recertified. Although they do not have to retake the test, they must continue their education through classes and conferences. Hours vary for each level of certification and those certified must present a portfolio of the courses and workshops they have attended every three years. Those interested in becoming certified may contact ACA's certification staff at 1-800-222-5646, ext. 1864. Jail Management A successful jail manager must have skills in decision-making, crisis management, financial management, staff recruitment and retention, public relations, facility safety and security, program development, balancing management and leadership, and valuing employees, to name just a few. The workshop, "The Essentials of Successful Jail Management," moderated by Sheriff Elizabeth Arthur of the Arlington County Sheriff's Office in Arlington, Va., offered conference attendees useful information regarding the surge in the jail's presence in the corrections field as well as some general principles of effective jail management. According to Arthur M. Wallenstein, director of the Montgomery County Department of Correction and Rehabilitation in Rockville, Md., there are more than 3,000 jails in the United States and "much of the most creative work in the field of American corrections is coming through the jail system." Wallenstein also said, "Local jails are an intrinsic part of the community. We are of the community; we are by the community. Whether it's a municipal jail, county jail, city jail -- whatever it is." The jail field has grown enormously. The focus, Wallenstein said, is on return to the community. "The vast majority are going home -- some within the hour, some within the day, the week, the month, all within the year (Pennsylvania excepted)." "In many respects," he said, "jails are the driving force in the field of corrections that covers all the elements of what good public policy should be." Wallenstein offered the audience some general principles of jail management, including: average daily population is not a major issue -- bookings and releases are the prime determining issues in the jail field; management through employees -- staff is the most valuable resource; accountability measures for basic core practices; never permit personal disengagement or detachment; stay on top of evolving legal practices; diversity and racial disparity; and media/press and public relations. Education and Treatment The workshop, "Youth With Disabilities in Correctional Settings: Promising Practices for Education and Treatment," addressed several areas of this difficult topic, including: technical assistance (focusing on delinquency prevention, educational services and transition/aftercare) available through the National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ), based at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md.; innovative models for correctional special education; and promising practices that respond to the needs of incarcerated youths with disabilities in juvenile and adult corrections. Moderated by Dr. Sheri Meisel, associate director of EDJJ, the panel included: Dr. Jerry McGlone, superintendent of the Ohio Central School System of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) in Columbus, Ohio; Orlando L. Martinez, commissioner of the Department of Juvenile Justice in Atlanta, and federal court monitor for a settlement agreement/consent decree for the commonwealth of Puerto Rico; Dr. Bruce Wolford, director of the Training Resource Center at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, KY.; and Dr. C. Michael Nelson, associate director of the Education Department-Juvenile Justice at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky., who, for his portion of the workshop, gave an informative PowerPoint presentation. McGlone briefly discussed some difficulties the Ohio Central School System of DRC has had in recent years, the greatest of which was a high rate of staff turnover -- particularly special education staff since many of the juveniles can be extremely challenging. In Martinez's portion of the panel discussion, he pointed out, "If there's a solution to juvenile crime, it's education." He added that delinquency is a learned behavior, not inborn, and that the educational process will assist juveniles because the more they are able to learn while in Georgia's facilities, the better off they will be upon release. "All the research points in that direction," he added. Wolford briefly went over models of education delivery and several best practices, such as administration of services, financing and quality assurance. The session concluded with some dialogue between the panelists and the audience. Technology Conference attendees had the opportunity to learn about new and emerging technologies in the corrections field during the workshop, "Technology: What Works and How." Dr. Allan Turner, research professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and manager of the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ) Office of Science and Technology's Corrections Technology Development Program, moderated the workshop. Speakers included Duane Blackburn, program manager of the Department of Defense's Counterdrug Technology Development Program Office in Dahlgren, Va.; Eddie Broyles, senior project manager of the Engineer Space and Naval Warfare Center in Charleston, S.C.; and Dave Ferris, program manager of the Air Force Research Lab in Rome, N.Y. The workshop focused on three emerging areas in correctional technology: drug detection and screening, biometrics and concealed weapons detection. Blackburn began the workshop with a presentation about the pros and cons of certain drug detection and screening devices. The Counterdrug Technology Development Program Office and NIJ are working together to test devices in the correctional setting. They presently are testing the Pharmcam sweat patch, a drug testing device that looks similar to a Band-Aid. The patch, which is placed on an inmate's arm for one week, can detect if there are drugs in the person's body. It has been extremely effective, however, during the last few months, there has been proof that the device may be a bit too effective. Blackburn explained that the patch is so sensitive it absorbs residue in the air. Thus, if the patch is placed in an area that has drug residue, the residue may latch onto the patch. He also told the audience that because the patch is permeable, drugs can get through the tiny holes. Therefore, if an inmate enters an area with drug residue during the week he or she is wearing the patch, the residue may be absorbed. Both offices are looking for a way to redesign this patch to make test results more accurate. Blackburn said the patch definitely is a useful device, but that it is best used with other types of drug testing. The Counterdrug Technology Development Program Office and NIJ also are working on developments in the area of drug detection. An emerging problem today involves the smuggling of extremely small quantities of drugs, for example, drugs being smuggled under postage stamps. The two offices are conducting a technology market survey using vapor analysis, X-rays and spray test kits. The test will determine if these products will work for small amounts of drugs. The products that work will be tested to determine the best at identifying small amounts of drugs. The products will be tested through an operation evaluation in which thousands of letters will be sent to prison facilities. A small amount of drugs will be put underneath some stamps. The entire process, including results, will take four to six months. Both Blackburn and Turner are hoping this test will determine the best drug detection device to help corrections professionals. Today's emerging biometrics include facial recognition, hand geometry, voice verification, retina scanning, iris recognition and smart cards, to name just a few. Broyles described each of these devices and discussed some of their pros and cons. Some problems with facial recognition include facial expressions, lighting and poses. NIJ and the Counterdrug Technology Development Program Office presently are working together to determine some of these problems and to fix them. They have developed the Facial Recognition Vendor Test 2000, which will give examples of how to properly run an evaluation. The results will be available in several months. It will be conducted like the other test with a technological evaluation, scenario evaluation and an operational evaluation. The workshop ended with an informative presentation on how to identify concealed weapons and drugs, given by Ferris. Some devices he mentioned were the body cavity scanner, which detects contraband in the rectal and vaginal cavities, an MRI device and devices that can detect contraband through millimeter waves and infrared images. Although many of these devices are still evolving, the speakers said they felt positive that technology is moving in the right direction in the corrections field. Technological advances have come a long way during the past several years and it seems they will advance even further in the future. Involving Probation And Parole Officers in Continuity of Care High rates of infectious diseases, substance abuse, high-risk sexual activity and mental illnesses among inmates are a major problem. An even larger problem occurs when thousands of former inmates return to the community each year. Thus, it is essential for probation and parole officers to have knowledgeable backgrounds about the common diseases their clients have and form a strong link to community resources that can help these former inmates. Vara G. DeLoney, R.N., B.S.N., M.P.H., clinical instructor of the Southeast AIDS Training and Education Center of Emory University in Atlanta and John Blevins, M.Div., program manager of the center, established a training symposium for probation and parole officers that teaches them about the most common diseases among inmates and helps improve officers' working relationships with clients and community resources. DeLoney and Blevins presented their training curriculum and other useful information during the workshop, "Involving Probation and Parole Officers in Continu ity of Care" The one-day training, which took place last spring, consists of an in-depth look at occupational exposure to tuberculosis, HIV and hepatitis, the top four mental health diagnoses in corrections and the condition of suicidality; the side-effects and benefits of medications for infectious diseases and mental health conditions; and how to establish and improve working relationships with clients and community resources. During the workshop, DeLoney and Blevins explored each of these areas and also presented a chart of self-reported barriers officers made during the symposium. Some barriers included: transportation, lack of family support, language, manipulative clients and the low literacy levels of some clients. System barriers included long waits for referral appointments, negative attitudes of clients and officers, large caseloads and no judicial system support. DeLoney and Blevins also presented the results of their symposium, which showed that officers' knowledge increased significantly, along with their comfort level, skills, attitudes and beliefs. Many commented they felt they will be more prepared to discuss issues and make client referrals to a wide range of resources, complete better case management planning, better understand clients' needs and recognize medication side effects. Jennifer L. Harry and Elizabeth Klug 2001 Winter Conference Awards -- Recognizing Outstanding Members for Their Dedication Each year, ACA recognizes out standing members who have exemplified courage, honor and dedication in the corrections field. This year, ACA presented the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Award to Angela T. PendergrassMcCloe, the Outstanding Journalism Award to The Oregonian, the Peter P. Lejins Research Award to Dr. Jess Maghan, the Community Service Award to the Washington Correctional Association and posthumously presented the Medal of Valor to Capt. David C. Knapps, whose son accepted the award on his late father's behalf. The winners accepted their awards at the Opening and Closing Sessions of the 2001 Winter Conference. Angela Pendergrass-McCloe is a dedicated employee of the Middletown Municipal Court (Ohio) and is pursuing her master's degree in criminal justice at Xavier University to become a probation officer. The single mother, who works full time, hopes to complete her degree this year. Throughout her life, Pendergrass-McCloe has tried to emulate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s pacifism. Through both her actions and words, she has taught her children, along with those she encounters every day, that the means of resolving conflict is with words, not violence, and that each person, no matter what he or she looks like, is important. Upon accepting the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Award, Pendergrass-McCloe thanked God, ACA, her family, friends and co-workers for giving her this opportunity. Capt. David C. Knapps, a 12-year veteran of the Louisiana Department of Corrections (DOC), displayed a tremendous amount of courage and honor, exemplifying the definition of a true public servant. On Dec. 28, 1999, Knapps was brutally murdered in the line of duty for refusing to surrender his keys to six inmates who planned to escape from the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Due to his brave actions, the situation did not spread beyond the immediate area, as the inmates blockaded themselves in the education building of a medium-security unit and took two hostages. His refusal to surrender his keys gave other officers time to prevent an escape and further harm to others. Davy Knapps, son of the late David C. Knapps, accepted the Medal of Valor on behalf of his father. While Knapps' actions set an example for all, his son's inspiring words set an example as well: "Corrections has been a tradition in my family since the '40s," he said. "I am so proud to see so many people, in this room alone, proud of what they do. I would like to thank Warden Cain and Secretary Stalder for their commitment to duty as well as their support during a very trying and hard period. I now walk in my father's footsteps at the Louisiana State Penitentiary as a correctional officer and I walk proud. I hope all of you do, too." In an effort to restore the credibility of the crime beat, The Oregonian participated in the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Journalism Credibility Project. For three months, Susan Gage, an Oregonian editor, researched past practices and made recommendations on how to improve crime coverage. While studying years of newspaper crime coverage, she and The Oregonian Crime Team found that crime stories in the paper lacked context, perspective and background, and that too much time and effort were spent on "chasing sirens." Gage also interviewed criminal justice authorities, met with community leaders and held discussions with readers. After the paper's shortcomings were recognized, she recommended that reporters focus their time, effort and energy on the issues that cause crimes, rather than sensationalizing crimes when they occur. The Oregonian accepted her recommendations and, since mid-1999, readers have benefited from less exposure and sensationalism due to a focus on these issues. The Oregon DOC appreciates The Oregonian's efforts and has noticed changes in its crime coverage with positive results. The Oregonian has become a leader and example for other newspapers to practice responsible, ethical journalism. For more than 30 years, Dr. Jess Maghan has been a dedicated, diligent corrections professional who has been active in many aspects of the field. He is the author and program officer of 50 successful federal grant awards, totaling approximately $6 million. Maghan has participated in projects related to staff health, emergency preparedness, correctional law and international comparative corrections. Throughout his career, Maghan has held a wide variety of positions, including research associate in New Orleans Parish Prison, the first director of training for the Louisiana DOC, the first superintendent of the Illinois Correctional Academy, correctional training specialist at the National Institute of Corrections and director of training at the New York City DOC. While holding these positions, along with others, he fostered strong links with institutions of higher education, encouraging field research to improve working conditions for officers and living conditions for inmates. He also obtained more than 35 technical assistance projects, research and evaluation grants for staff performance-based training objectives, staff safety, sexual harassment, legal issues and correctionalhealth training programs. Maghan is continuing to focus his research on institutional violence, staff safety, privatization, and the entry and female and minority correctional officers. Upon accepting the Peter P. Lejins Research Award, Maghan expressed his admiration for the man after whom the award is named. "I am deeply touched to be in the shadow and legacy of Peter Lejins," he said. The Washington Correctional Association (WCA) has demonstrated its concern for others in the community and has achieved its goal of improving the human tolls of crime and poverty. During the past several years, WCA has sponsored a variety of fund-raisers and community service projects, including an auction during the 1999 annual fall conference and a book drive as part of Make a Difference Day. WCA's auction raised more than $1,500, which was donated to the Family Renewal Shelter, a local domestic violence shelter that provides services to families. The auction included items donated by merchants and board members and inmate-made crafts. WCA's "book-raiser" created a reading program for underprivileged children. A book drive was launched in October and more than 1,000 books were donated. Staff coordinated with a local school district and created the Linda Gainey Reading Club at an area community center. Staff used their lunch hours to sponsor this program, which is in memory of community corrections officer Linda Gainey of the Lakewood Office of Community Corrections. Linda Willenberg and Pamela Maddess accepted the award and spoke of the association's goals of giving back to the community. "We are honored to accept this award and thank our members who make a difference every day in the lives of offenders, victims and the community," Maddess said. Martin Luther King III Urges Listeners to Love One Another Editor's Note: The following is an edited version of the speech delivered by Martin Luther King III Jan. 22, during the Opening Session of the American Correctional Association 2001 Winter Conference. One week ago, we observed the national holiday for Martin Luther King Jr., which I always say is a time for us to rededicate ourselves and our lives to fulfilling the unfinished work. As I prepared my remarks, one of the things I thought about is what he would say about the current state of our nation, particularly regarding our criminal justice system. I cannot speak for him, nor can any of us, but perhaps he would be very concerned about the direction we find ourselves going in as a nation. Maybe he would have some solutions. I want to share some things, some of which you have heard, some of which you know, but some of which I think we sometimes need to hear over and over again until it sinks in to create action for us to change some of those things. I come from a family of Baptist preachers -- Southern Baptists to be precise. My great-grandfather was a preacher, my grandfather was, my father and his brother were, my sister is, my cousins are, but I am not a preacher; and I will certainly try, because I have been around preachers all my life, to be appropriately brief. I give hundreds of speeches a year. Preparing for this one was one of my biggest challenges yet because the incarceration of humankind is such a critical and emotional issue. While I was researching facts on the Internet, I entered the word "prison." A lot of information came up -- more than 30,000 sites. I went to one of the sites and it led to others. Parole, prison conditions, prison-industrial complex, sentencing policies, "three strikes" laws, women's prisons, just to name a few, It was mind-boggling and I appreciate the complexity of what you do because every one of you has a tremendous task. I want to begin by thanking you, those of you who do your jobs well. This is a critical issue, and a complex one, because we each have a perspective of what the correctional system is, or should be. We all know someone who has had a connection to the system, be it a victim, an inmate, an employee, a concerned citizen. One of my first encounters with the prison system came as a child, because my father often ended up going to jail. In fact, as a child someone asked me, "What does your daddy do?" I said, "Well, he goes to jail." I thought it was something to be proud of. I didn't really understand until later, and when I understood why he was going to jail, I was very proud. But one day, a young man said to me, after he found out who I was, 'Oh, your father's a jailbird." Naturally, I was distraught. I began to cry. I cried all the way home. My mother asked me what was wrong, and I told her, and she said, "Your father is going to jail to make our nation a better place for all of God's children." I went back to school the next day very proud of what he was doing. It may be a bit humorous, but as we know, incarceration is no laughing manner. I have been to many prisons -- as an elected official, as a private citizen, as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). But as recently as last fall, I visited inmates in New Jersey. I was most jolted by the women I saw behind bars. Beautiful women, smart women -- well, maybe -- mothers, wives, sisters, daughters. And I walked away very sad, thinking there is something dramatically and drastically wrong in our nation called home when we create conditions for the mothers of our children to end up incarcerated. And I thought about what Victor Hugo often said that wherever there is darkness, crimes will occur. But the guilty are not really the ones who commit the crimes, but those who create the darkness. Yesterday evening, as fate would have it, I turned to The Learning Channel at about 4 p.m. and there was a program on called Women Behind Bars, which was filmed in Colorado. Then, I turned to the Discovery Channel about an hour later, and it was featuring a program called Maximum Security. So I took this to be divine confirmation that I was supposed to address you this morning and that you would listen to my words with open minds and open hearts. Please allow me to take a few moments to do what some call preaching to the choir, but as I stated earlier, I think it is necessary to bring light to this chapter of the tale of America. In the United States, we know there are nearly 2 million people behind bars. We know that the prison population increases by 50,000 to 80,000 humans per year. Today in the United States, there are more people in prison than in other countries -- even countries such as China and India, which have substantially larger populations than we do. None of us should be proud of these numbers. Today, 70 percent of prison inmates are illiterate in a nation where education is guaranteed for all. Today, approximately 200,000 inmates suffer from mental illnesses. Sixty percent to 80 percent of the American inmate population has a history of substance abuse. We are not proud of these numbers. Bear with me a bit longer, while I remind you about imprisoned women. Today, 80,000 women are imprisoned and, of that number, 70 percent are nonviolent offenders; 75 percent have children. And I must briefly touch on the African-American statistics because African-Americans comprise 13 percent of the American population, but in some communities, we comprise 50 percent, 60 percent, 70 percent, 80 percent-plus of the prison and jail population. Half the overall prison population in the United States is African-American. One out of every 14 black men is in prison or jail. One out of every four is likely to be imprisoned at some point during his lifetime. And today, even though the prevalence of illegal drug use among white men is approximately the same as that among black men, black men are five times as likely to be arrested for drug offenses. We know all these facts, but we have a problem in our nation. While I told you that I am not ministering, I do feel I need to do some ministering because we are at an interesting crossroads in our nation's history. For years, we have heard a great deal of discussion about our great economic prosperity and, sure, there are many Americans, including some African-Americans, who have improved their economic status. But we've heard far less about great social prosperity and now, as the great economic prosperity appears to be stabilizing, I am more concerned than ever about our social prosperity. While I am on the subject of economic prosperity, I have to address the prison-industrial complex. For no matter how you feel about it, we have this massive prison-industrial complex and we are spending billions of dollars annually to house, clothe and feed America's inmates. Prison labor, we now know, is subsidizing free market labor. It is the one industry in which economic progress and social progress are inversely pro portional. We have come so far as a nation in many regards, but this is a sore on the soul of America. Please understand I am not blaming any of you, because our correctional problem is much larger than any individual. It is a symptom of a national problem and it can be summed up by something else I found on the Internet. It is one of those Internet letters called, "We've Come So Far." Today, we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers. Wider freeways, but narrower minds. We spend more but have less, we buy more but enjoy it less. We have more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees, but less sense. More knowledge, but less judgment. More experts, but more problems. We have multiplied our perceptions, but reduced our values. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life, but not life to years. We've conquered outer space, but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned the air, but polluted our souls. We split the atom, but not our prejudic e. We have higher incomes, but lower morals. We have fancier houses, but broken homes. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, stay up too late, read too seldom, watch too much television and pray too seldom. We've come so far, but we've regressed so much, Yes, this is a time of great prosperity for some, but as the former secretary of HUD (the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) Andrew Cuomo, stated, "The good news is getting better and the bad news is getting worse." It has been very sobering to serve as the president of SCLC, for we are truly living in the best of times and the worst of times. Many are achieving financial success that my father would have only imagined. But many more are experiencing the societal oppression that Martin Luther King Jr. surely foresaw and fought so hard to overcome. You can turn on any television or read any newspaper and see the crime statistics, poverty statistics, unemployment statistics, disease statistics. When you sit in an office and put faces to the numbers and lives to the headlines, it is sobering. It is sobering, indeed. We live in the most powerful nation in the world; we are the wealthiest country in the world, but we also lead the industrialized world in rape and murder, violent crime, juvenile violent crime, suicide, sexually transmitted disease, cocaine consumption, pornography production and consumption. We've come so far, but we've regressed so much. We can, and we must, do better. We are a much better nation than the behavior that we are exhibiting. My father dedicated his life to the eradication of those things he called the triple evils -- poverty, racism and violence -- which reminds me of a story of a young man by the name of Kenny. This story was shared by Emanuel Cleaver, former mayor of Kansas City. Kenny was a seventh-grade student given an assignment to write about his favorite pet. He turned the paper in to his teacher Friday and Monday, after she graded the papers over the weekend, she came back and returned the paper to Kenny. He received an F. Naturally, he was distraught and asked the teacher, "Ms. Jones, did you not like my paper?" She answered, "Well, Kenny, your paper was interesting." He said, "Well why, Ms. Jones, if my paper was interesting, did I receive an F?" She replied, "Well, Kenny, you will remember that about four years ago your brother was in my class and he too was given an assignment to write about his favorite pet, which was a dog. Your paper appears to be his paper. Can you explain that, Kenny?" Kenny answered, "Oh, that's very easy, Ms. Jones. You see, it's because it's the same old dog." What I am saying is that 30-plus years ago, during the life of Martin Luther King Jr., we were dealing with the dogs of poverty, racism and violence. Thirty years later, we are still dealing with the same old dogs. Its first name is poverty, its middle name is racism and its last name is violence. Our failure to master true compassion and to overcome our intolerance of our differences is at the root of all our problems. As a nation, we can celebrate or magnify our differences. But one thing is certain: If we continue to legislate, adjudicate, allocate and educate in a divisive and discriminatory manner, we will see an increase in crime, violence, homelessness, poverty, disease and despair. We can and we must do better. We are a much better nation than the behavior we are exhibiting. In August 1963, a young man by the name of Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and uttered these words: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not b e judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." And in the proper context, these powerful words set a perfect standard for an imperfect nation to work toward. But, as one of those four little children, I must remind you that while my father had an incredible dream of one day, that day clearly and sadly, is not today. There are those who would have you believe that in 2001, the real new millennium, more than three decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., we now live in a colorblind, gender-blind, age-blind, class-blind, disability-blind society. Perhaps they are so blind that they cannot see the sobering reality around us, for we need only to look in our boardrooms to see that the day about which my father dreamed is not today. It is not at my home-based company that I love, Coca-Cola, but I know they are working to change it. It is not today at Delta Airlines, which I fly on every day, but I know they are working to change it. It is not today at Lockheed Martin, or other countless corporations. Nor is it today in our nation's classrooms. Forty-four years after the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, the doctrine of separate and unequal is still alive and well in many of our public schools. The day about which my father dreamed has not been realized in our lending institutions or employment offices and it is certainly not in our nation's courtrooms. The great comedian Richard Pryor used to say often, "When you go down to the courthouse looking for justice, all you find is just us." That is a tragic reality that is true this day - one that we must work to correct. It is not today in our nation that is working to dismantle affirmative action. Affirmative action is not, in my view, what is wrong with America, as many would have you believe. There should be an uproar about affirmative action, but not about what it has done. It should be that affirmative action has not done enough. More than 30 years after my father's death, women still earn 79 cents to every dollar that men earn. Black per capita income is still 57 percent of white per capita income. Today, 96 percent of our nation's top corporate jobs are held by white men. Today, low income and minority students are more likely to attend impoverished and segregated schools, and today, many college-educated African-Americans, on average, still are only earning what white high school graduates earn. And it is certainly not today on our nation's highways, streets or even at our malls. It is not today when a man sitting in his own dwelling holds up his wallet and is shot in New York City - Amadou Diallo, 41 times. It is not today when a man and his family in Dearborn, Mich., could not go shopping without an altercation occurring and the man being killed by being put in a choke hold. It is not today when African-American men and women are stopped six times more often than others while driving, simply because they fit a particular profile. Last spring, I had the distinct honor of walking over the Edmond Pettis Bridge in Selma, Ala., with President Clinton for the anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery, which granted the right to vote. In 1965, my father and others marched over the Edmond Pettis Bridge and, in fact, on the first occasion, they were not allowed to march over it. They were forced to go back and some were arrested; others were beaten. But in 2000, we could walk over that bridge, It is very interesting that in 2001, we can march over the Edmond Pettis Bridge, but because of

racial profiling, African-Americans cannot drive over it without being stopped. We must work to abolish racial profiling. It is wrong, unjust and unfair. This past August, we engaged a major demonstration in Washington to abolish racial profiling. Racial profiling is not just in relationship to police officers. In every aspect of the lives of people of color, profiling occurs. Perhaps in police work some profiling is necessary, but not when it is such a disproportionate number of individuals who are affected. And, quite frankly, I must add that if we stopped everyone at the same rate that we stop African-Americans, then our prison population numbers would change dramatically, in terms of black folks being 50 percent of inmates. And I am not suggesting that we would ever condone any crime. Anyone who is involved in criminal activity must be stopped and it must be addressed. But the tragedy is we target one group. African-Americans are targeted when we go into malls. Four hundred African-American women have come through the airports and have been stopped and strip-searched going through customs. Nothing was found on them. When the process of "red-lining" occurs, which is banks deciding they will not lend money to a particular community because a certain group of people may live there, that's a form of racial profiling. Again, I say we must end racial profiling. But all this simply is what I call indications of the color game. In 1903, the great scholar Dr. W.E.B. DuBois stated that the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line. Well, here we are in the 21st century and I submit to you that our problem is still the color line. When it's time to address real problems in our society, we color them: black, brown, yellow. Every single time we just diminish them because many Americans cannot see beyond the intolerant prejudice. When we talk about the problems of education in America, we talk about black education, not the miseducation of children in poor school districts. When we talk about the problems of health care, we talk about black health care, not the problems of impoverished women and children. When we talk about the immigrant problem, we talk about the black, brown and yellow immigrants, not the Russian or Irish immigrants, who make up the majority of our illegal immigrants. When we talk about the problem of affirmative action, we talk about the black student who took the place of the white student, not the white female, who has benefited most from affirmative action and, I might add, rightfully so, since white women make up the majority of the population and also have been excluded. When we talk about the problems of housing, we don't talk about substandard housing everywhere, especially in rural white America; we talk about housing in inner cities for blacks and Latinos. When we talk about the drug problem, we don't discuss the wealthy white businessmen doing lines of cocaine before Wall Street meetings. Rather, on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox and the rest, you see the face of the young hip-hop, hat-to-back-wearing black man. I want to digress to share a perspective that my father often shared with me, because in America, unfortunately, we see everything in black and white and we are much broader than that. We've got to grow much broader than where we are today. Images are very important and television has played a major role in the lives of most of us. Some years back, the images of African-Americans on television always were negative. Heroes always rode on white horses in white garb. Villains rode on black horses in black garb. Every image was negative. Even when you look at Roget's Thesaurus, there are about 145 synonyms for the word black, all of them negative. If you look up the word white, there are about 165 synonyms, all of them positive. If you tell lies, a white lie is supposed to be a little better than a black lie. But a lie, is a lie, is a lie. When you go wrong in the family, you're not called the white sheep, but you're called the black sheep. When someone conspires against you, it's not called "whitemail," but blackmail. The one that really gets me is when you make cakes, a white cake is angel food cake and a black cake is devil's food cake. In essence, the entire linguistic and semantic structure, consciously or unconsciously, has worked to make black negative. If you want to understand why the homicide rate in the African-American community historically has been high, it is because little black children historically, from the time they are knee-high to a grasshopper to 12, 13, 14 years old, are taught subconsciously to dislike themselves. Just as little white children are taught to dislike little black children. Again, this is subconsciously because if you look at all these analogies, then you can begin to understand. If you want to understand why the homicide rate is high, by the time a black youngster gets to be 12, he unconsciously dislikes everything that looks like him because he has been programmed to not understand the value of who he is. That's why the homicide rate in the African-American community has been high. Something, again, we must work on as a society to change. The reality of all this is that Americans of all colors have problems, not just African-Americans. As a nation, we have to work hard to overcome these issues, because we can and we must do better, by making time to understand one another. We can and must do better by making time to help one another. We can and must do better by embracing the dream and the message of Martin Luther King Jr., which he called creating the beloved community. He often said that you cannot be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be and I cannot be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be because our destinies are tied together. The day of which my father dreamed is not today, but I believe that we can and we will make it tomorrow. He had a dream. It was truly an American dream. And he left us a blueprint on how to achieve it, if we dare only follow his example. We are reminded often that we are created as one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. That is our social imperative. But he also reminded us of our moral imperative and I call it the imperative to love. When I was 10, my father was gunned down and taken from us by an assassin's bullet. When I was 11, my uncle mysteriously drowned. When I was 16, my grandmother was gunned down in church while playing the "Lord's Prayer" on the organ. What I am thankful for is the example that my mother, father, grandmother and grandfather, aunts and uncles, set for us because I am not burdened with hatred. It would have been very easy to hate. My father was killed by a white man and my grandmother was killed by a black man. In theory, I could hate everybody. But I am thankful for that wonderful example Martin Luther King Jr. shared and Coretta Scott King taught us because they taught us that you can dislike the evil act and still love the individual. They taught us to love ourselves, to love our family, to love our community and most of all, to have a love of God. I think about all that I learned from them, and my grandfather, who used to say, "I refuse to allow any man to reduce me to hatred. The man who killed my lovely wife or the man who killed my son. I refuse even to allow them to reduce me to hatred. I love everybody. I am every man's brother." That's a very powerful example for a youngster to witness, so I am thankful for that example. I am thankful for the example of how we love our community. We are here while we are here because it's business. We are also here, many of us who do our jobs every day, because we love our communities and we want to make a change. We want to make sure, hopefully one day, that even though this day, our prison system is bust ing at the seams, we have a humane and just way of dealing with those kinds of issues. My father used to talk about voting and the importance of voting. In 1965, he and others walked over that bridge to make sure that we got the right to vote. Of course, no one knew that in 2000, we would have to come back and make sure our votes counted. So, no matter where I go, I talk about the importance of voting. We all have something to vote for because everything has a political consequence -- especially our prison system. Whether you are concerned about civil rights, defense, education, the environment, foreign policy, gun control, health care, social security, trade, the judiciary or cultural values, we all have something to vote for. And we know that more than ever because of this last election. So, when we love our communities, we involve ourselves in all of these kinds of activities. As I was growing up, I learned that my father preached a sermon called "Levels of Love." I won't go through that entire sermon, but I will share one perspective. He talked about the different levels of love: utilitarian love, one we should not embrace; friendship love, a beautiful love but not the highest; romantic love, a beautiful love but certainly not the highest; a mother's love, one that is so incredible, but not the highest; humanitarian love, a tremendous and beautiful love, but not the highest. He finally said the highest level of love is defined by the word "agape"; it is a love that seeks nothing in return, a love that is totally unselfish. You love someone if they're old, young, rich, poor, black, white, Native American, Latino- or Hispanic-American, African or Asian. You love them because you know that God calls you to do that. That's the kind of love we have to embrace if we're going to change America be cause America is headed in a dangerous direction. None of us can do it alone, but certainly together, we can make it happen. Love is so important. Certainly, biblically it says if you bring up a child in the way that they should go, then when that child is old that child will not depart from that training. In some cases, some of our children, perhaps some of our parents, have abandoned their roles, their responsibilities of raising our children. So, we have to figure out how we go back and re-instill some values. It is a major job but it is not one that we cannot achieve. The responsibility is on each of us because part of our job is to make this community, this nation, this world, this place in which we are, to leave it a little better than when we arrived. Each of us can work in our own ways to create a more harmonious nation. Then, we will be achieving the direction we need to go in. This is the kind of love we must embrace. This is our moral and social imperative. We have the qualities to make the significant difference in our society. We have the experience. We have the willingness. We have the mission, and I know we have God on our side. All we n eed to do is to commit to the work together, for the beloved community, for the sake of our children and our future. There really is no problem that we cannot solve when we work together. We have the ability, but we have to somehow identify the will. From Massachusetts to Mississippi, we can give hope to the hopeless. From New York to North Carolina, we can give houses to the homeless so they don't find shelter through incarceration. From Memphis to Mobile, Dallas to Detroit, Birmingham to Baltimore, we can give jobs to the jobless. From California to Colorado, we will work to improve the public school systems from preschool to graduate school, so that illiteracy does not continue to swell our prison ranks. But we have to do it together. We cannot wait because too many of our children are being locked up and not enough are being helped up. We cannot wait because our children are being armed with college degrees, but they are not being given seats at the table of opportunity. We cannot wait because there are more millionaires than ever before in the history of our country, and yet we have the largest income and inequality gap in history. We cannot wait because welfare roles are down by 1.3 million, but we still have more women and children living in pover ty than ever before, and too many are turning to crime and drugs. We cannot wait because the new millennium is here but it is being ushered in by the same old poverty, racism and violence. If there ever was a time to work together, the time is now. We must work together for the advancement of our nation into the 21st century. We must work together to ensure that Martin Luther King Jr. and all the warriors who gave their lives for our cause, did not die in vain. We must work together because it is our social and moral imperative to leave no one behind. I am convinced that together we can make this happen. I was troubled by an article that I read in Atlantic Monthly. The author wrote a comprehensive piece about the prison-industrial complex. The last sentence of the article stated, "Every one of them, every brand new prison, becomes an everlasting monument, concrete and ringed with deadly razor wire, to the fear and greed and political cowardice that now pervade American society." The words "political cowardice" stuck out in my mind because they echo the words of my favorite quote of my father's, which I challenge you to embrace. He said the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in times of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. On some questions, cowardice asks, "Is the position safe?" Expediency asks if the position is politic. Vanity asks, "Is the position popular?" But that something deep inside called conscience asks, "Is the position right?" Sometimes, he went on to say, we must take positions that are neither safe nor popular nor politic, but we must take those positions because our conscience tells us they are right. I challenge you to accept this challenge as you go about your difficult task. In 1963, my father wrote these words: "What else can one do when he's alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts and pray long prayers?" These words came from a letter he wrote on toilet paper and the edges of a newspaper. The letter was titled "The Letter From the Birmingham City Jail." The most important part had to do with prayer. In my own personal experience, I know that prayer changes things. So, we need to pray for you in your jobs. We need to pray for the least of these God's children. We need to pray for our nation. But prayers cannot be answered unless they are prayed. You see life without purpose is barren indeed. There cannot be a harvest unless you plant seed. There cannot be attainment unless you have a goal, for man is just a robot unless there is a soul. If we do not send ships out, no ships will come in. Unless there is contest, nobody can win, for games cannot be won unless they are played and prayers cannot be answered unless they are prayed. So, whatever is wrong with your life today, I am here to tell you that you will find a solution if you kneel down and pray. Not just for pleasure, enjoyment and health, not just for honors, prestige and wealth. But pray for purpose to make life worth living and pray for the joy of unselfish giving, for great is your gladness and rich your reward when you make your life's purpose the choice of the Lord. Thank you very much and may God bless you al ways. Patch Adams Motivates Conference Attendees to Be Celebrants of Life Editor's Note: The following is an edited version of the Annual Luncheon keynote address delivered by Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams Jan. 23, 2001, at the American Correctional Association's 2001 Winter Conference. I was born in 1945 into a military family. My father didn't see me until I was 2. He was a professional soldier. I grew up overseas on Army bases until age 16, when the military took my father's life and broke my heart. I then became a peace activist. I moved back to the United States in 1961 and was in Virginia at a very active time in trying to change the level of racism in the South, and I immediately got involved in the civil rights movement. I was beaten up every week for several years, but I would rather be beaten than silent. I found out I didn't want to live in a world of violence and injustice. At school, people cared about hairdos and ball scores and not about people's rights. From my senior year of high school through right after graduation, I was hospitalized three times. I didn't want to live. I was hospitalized the last time in a locked ward of a mental hospital, wanting to die. I noticed that the staff weren't any happier than the patients and that I wasn't going to learn much from them. All my life, I've done a lot of studying of the things that concern me and I made two decisions in the hospital that changed my life forever. One, I decided to serve humanity in medicine, which I have done pretty much solidly for nearly 38 years. And two, I decided never to have another bad day, to be a scientist studying joy, to live a life of joy and to insist on loving life. I've done that every day for the last 37 years and it doesn't surprise me that I haven't been sick in all those years. By the time I entered medical school in 1967, 1 knew exactly what I wanted to do: study health care delivery and create a model when I graduated that would address every single problem of care delivery in one model When I graduated in 1971, a group of us moved into a large single-family dwelling and called it a hospital, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for all manner of medical problems from birth to death. During the next 12 years, we had from 500. to 1,000 people in our home each month, with five to 50 overnight guests every night. These guests were needy, lonely, in pain, dangerous and they brought their medical problems. In those 12 years, we saw 50,000 people. Never in our 30-year history have we charged money for what we've done. In fact, we wanted to eliminate the idea of debt in the medical interaction because, as a political act to recreate community, we could not conceive of a community of our design that didn't care for its people -- not out of responsibility and guilt, but out of the ecstatic experience of a sense of belonging to others. In the same light, we've never had anything to do with third-party reimbursement. I've never touched Medicare, Medicaid or the insurance companies. If I ever heard someone say something nice about them, I would use them, but no one ever did. We also never carried malpractice insurance and have been the only hospital that would dare do that. As a family doctor, initial interviews with patients were three to four hours long. I didn't want to pretend to say I was going to be involved in a person's family unless I tried to get to know them. And I'm sure if you can get a sense of my intensity, you can imagine how much I would find out about you if I had four hours. It always included a house call because you never, from your office, will know a fraction of what you can learn about your patient from one visit snooping around the home. When I went on a house call, I opened every drawer, went in every closet. I'm a voyeur, after all. I love my patients. They came into our homes with their families. In spending that kind of time with patients, we realized that it didn't matter if we cut out a tumor or corrected a blood sugar or blood pressure problem because what I learned is that nearly all adult Americans were unhappy with their lives. You only have to look at the statistics for psychotropic medications in our society to wonder if anyone isn't on them - the tranquilizers, the anti-anxiety mood elevators and those sorts of things that are practically put in our water. So, what did it matter if I extended their lives if their lives still sucked? What mattered to me was how we could help people love their lives, love themselves and be healthy. That is why, from the beginning, we fully integrated medicine with performing arts and arts and crafts, and agriculture, nature, education, recreation and social service as fundamental to health care. We also have been the only hospital to fully integrate all the healing arts. We knew that patients went to other kinds of health professionals -- healers -- and that it was irresponsible of us to simply call them quacks and ignore them because then we could cause damage. Instead, we welcomed them all and we found great things in all of them. We did this work for 12 years and no one gave us a single donation. During that time, I was 0-for-1,400 in foundation grants, which is not uncommon for radical organizations that are trying to do something good because, that is why they are radical -- no one wants to support real change. So we know that in prison work, we have the same thing. After 12 years of refusing publicity, we realized that if we really wanted to build our model hospital, we had to go public and we knew once we went public, we would have to stop seeing patients because you cannot tell a country that doesn't service 60 or more million people that you will see them for free and not even have a hospital to do it in. So, if you see the first 12 years of our work, our patients were individuals and families and the last 18 years of our work, our patients have been societies and communities because as soon as I became known through the media, I started to lecture and perform all over the world. That is what I've been doing for the last 18 years. We have been getting more and more known and getting more help to build our hospital. We now are active in more than 40 countries. This is when I started to let the clowning part of my life really expand. For 17 years, I've taken groups to Russia every year. I take 30 clowns and we perform in hospitals, orphanages, prisons and nursing homes. That work led to taking clowns into the war in Bosnia to the Kosovo refugee camps, to the Rumanian AIDS orphanages, etc. And yet, 28 years into the project, no one really wanted to help us, and that's why I agreed to do the movie. I'm not really a big fan of pop culture. It made a school teacher a pauper and a basketball player a multimillionaire and no wonder our kids are so troubled. You clap, but you won't turn off the Super Bowl. Forget the clapping, turn off the Super Bowl. The only reason a teacher isn't doing well is because they're not getting your applause. Ballplayers will be multimillionaires as long as you watch TV. They will stop being multimillionaires as soon as you stop watching TV. You actually will get your mind back. So we agreed to the movie, which came out and now two years into it, we feel on the threshold. We are going to break ground this year and start building our hospital to our ideal model in the poorest state for health care delivery -- West Virginia -- and we're really excited about that. Look back at the mental hospital where I made those two decisions. One was to serve humanity and I've given you tiny sketches about how I've done that in medicine. The other was to live a life of joy and that is where I started my clowning. I started to wear costumes in public. For the last 20 years, I've really only worn clown clothes. These are my normal clothes. I cannot imagine wearing a straight men's outfit for any reason, except for a theater production requiring a 20th-century boring men's outfit. Part of why I wear clown clothes everywhere I go is for two reasons. The selfish reason is that I love fun. The more service-related reasons are that I'm trying to put a good mood out in the public space. We all know that the public space is something we walk hurriedly through, thinking it is someone else's, but we don't really take ownership in the public space. We see it as a space of strangers and that strangers are, at best, something to be a little cautious about. I notice that if I walk through an air port in a suit, I don't affect that airport at all, but if I walk through that airport in clown clothes, and do no clowning, it ups the mood. It gets a lot more concentrated on an elevator, I guarantee you, particularly if you don't just simply present that appearance, but add to it clowning. Since you are involved in corrections, you might appreciate this: For more than 30 years, whenever I've seen violence in public, I've changed into my clown character and it has stopped the violence 100 percent of the time. So I figure that I've stopped 20,000 or more fights in public because of simply being a nut. I thought I'd give you a little demonstration of that. Let's say this is my normal dress. I'm going to show you -- and we can somewhat relate it to a spiritual path -- the five stations of the pants. This is the more Republican version of the pants, the blend-in-with-the-mall version of the pants. Let's say you're in a shopping mall and you say, "Whoops, time to start having fun!" We'll go to the second stage of the pants, which is a cute little skirt. Now, if you take the edges of that skirt and put a little smile on your face and walk around, things start to happen. That's fine, but a lot of those shopping malls are really a lot more serious than I can take and that will call for going to station number three. Here, I'm clearly out of the closet. There is no explanation. If you know something about comedy, you know that I actually don't have to do anything in this outfit. If I just go stand next to somebody, things start to happen. I've done this all over the world -- in remote villages in Africa and India, literally all over the world. It seems that just by pulling up your pants, you can start having fun with the world. Another thing is station number four. This is really good at a grocery store. I love to go to the produce department and say, "Excuse me, could you put in a couple of heads of lettuce there for me?" People are beautiful. Don't think I've done this one or two cute times. No, I do this frequently. And 100 percent of the people will put those two heads of lettuce right in there. The seriousness drops dramatically when I come back with, "Hmmm, I think I only wanted one." But three people in a hundred will reach right in there and get that other head of lettuce. The last station of the pants is really good at a bus stop. After all, there is a high turnover of people, and everyone who was there when you got there is quickly gone. And you've simply become a breathing sculpture. One of the things I've noticed is that for some reason, people will come up to you and stand right next to you and think you can't hear anything. So, that's a little background. Clowning: I'm really a clown who is a doctor, not a doctor who is a clown. A doctor doesn't always have something to offer. A clown always has something to offer. When I went to the Kosovo refugee camps and I know that when we go into a war next month, that there are many times when the doctor doesn't really have something to offer to relieve suffering. They might be able to relieve pain, but they won't relieve suffering. But the compassion and love that comes out of clowning can do that and does do it. I am addicted to it. It's why I do it pretty much all the time. I'm sure I've clowned at 10,000 death beds and it increases all the time. And because of our work there, people are now clowning in hospitals all over the world, and people are starting to take groups of clowns and musicians all over the world to places of pain. In trying to decide what to talk about here, we talked about different things we could do. I noticed that the theme of the conference is employee health. It means the same for all people. I mean, employee health isn't better than employer health. They just have less money to do it with. I just want to hint at some ideas for being well. When people say, "Patch, what can I do? How can I make the world better? How can I make my own life better?" I usually suggest two things that I guarantee can improve everyone's lives and the lives of the people around them. That is to become universally friendly and a celebrant of life. If you are not feeling the privilege, even if you are blind or lame or have AIDS or cancer or whatever it is, life is a privilege. The mayfly only has 12 hours to live. You can imagine it going, "11:59, 11:58 ... " A lot of humans do that. On 75 years of life they do that ... 36 years, mumble, mumble. So, if I said nothing else about being well and taking home something about what you can do to make your own health vibrant, hear this: If you make a conscious decision, a conscious intention in your life to love all people -- not love them philosophically -- to demonstrate it in your behavior and be obvious by your presentation of self that you love life, you will do great things for yourself, great things for your prison, great things for your family, great things for your neighborhood, everywhere. To go over quickly some of the other things that matter in wellness, it is interesting that not one of these things was mentioned in medical school. Not even diet and exercise were mentioned in medical school. I know they do a little bit more token introduction of being well, but in the business of medicine, there is no profit from being well, so why talk about something that cuts back on profit? Certainly diet and exercise are the first things people think about being healthy because its easier to measure. You can measure a cardiac output and you can measure nutrients. But I think that they are minor things, relative to the importance of having a spiritual life. Not the spiritual life -- any spiritual life, whatever yours is. And it can be with your family or nature or God or whatever it is. It's completely immaterial, but it is something you surrender yourself to wholly and without doubt. That's what faith is -- without doubt. Please understand that it doesn't matter what it is. Other people can tell you t hat theirs is better, but they're lying. Theirs is right for them. It's you having something that matters to you. And it can be your hobbies; it really doesn't matter what your faith is in. It only matters to others who think that everyone should have theirs. Love is really important, a surrendering to love, not a check -- "I've got a wife; I've got a friend" -- but the actual experience of love, the surrendering to that experience, the love of humanity. I've actually found in my family practice that the most important thing in everyone's lives is their friends. There is nothing that even comes close. In interviewing thousands upon thousands of people, it's very clear that our friends are the most important things to us. That's where the repository of love is greatest in the world, that our greatest wealth is in our friends and so it behooves us to get good at making friends, and it's amazing how many people are lonely, given how easy it is to make friends. "Hello, how are you? Tell me everything." "Oh, you like to do that? Can I do it with you?" You just got the message. Humor is really important. It's interesting. I have never said that laughter is the best medicine. You just heard me say that friends are the best medicine. People say, "Patch says laughter is the best medicine." It's a good context. Humor is such a great thing that they say it's the best medicine, and it is a very, very potent force; the biochemistry and physiology is impressive. Much more impressive is how hungry we are to have some of it. And we all know how hungry we are to have any kind of humor in our lives. Wonder and curiosity are extremely important. I see the worst diseases in our society as loneliness, boredom and fear. Only friends can get rid of loneliness, and almost anything can get rid of boredom. I have no personal experience with boredom. I didn't grow up with a TV and haven't added one to my life. It's inconceivable to me that people 3 are actually bored. I never believe them. I know they think so. You know you have an imagination, which is the vastest thing on the planet. The universe isn't as big as the imagination because the imagination can make three universes or a billion universes. And the tools of the imagination are wonder and curiosity -- to be interested, to hunger and to feel full of a sense of wonder about everything. Everything is amazing, even the smallest thing that some species of bamboo can grow 4 feet in a day. It's staggering that nature alone in its presentation of self is enough to keep your sense of wonder going at all times. Passion and hope -- those are great medicines. All these things are free, remember, free. Free. Anything I'm going to say probably is mostly free. Exercise you can do for free; food is tougher to do free, more and more. But all these other things are completely free. Passion: You can be passionate about anything. I love poetry. Maybe I'll give you the latest poem I memorized. I have four hours of poetry memorized. This is a very short one, so don't fall asleep. It's by that great poet W.H. Auden. It goes like this: May I, Composed like them of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same negation and despair, Show an affirming flame? I love language. I'm in love and I search the entire body of the world's history of poetry for ways that they speak about poetry, and there's the passion that forces in, the passion for looking for a way to say, "I like you," over and above the ways you say it in all your gestures. Passion and hope. Emily Dickinson spoke about hope being a thing with feathers that perches in the soul. It doesn't ask anything of you -- hope. You can hope for peace that's never been. You can still hope for it. I want peace. It can happen. And no one can hurt hope. I'm sure Nelson Mandela knew that. Twenty-eight years in prison and I'm sure his prison experience was a little bit different than most people's prison experiences here in this country. And when he left, he wasn't bitter, angry, nasty, vindictive; he was hopeful. And his hope happened. A relationship with nature, a relationship with creativity, everything you do is a creative act. If you ever saw Monty Python's The Ministry of Silly Walks, you can see that there is a lot you can change about the way you walk down a street. You can just take a different week, every week of the year, and walk differently. You know, the backward week, the backward skip, the sideways week, sideways with your briefcase up. And the world becomes so different if you're playing with it, if you're making it fun. It's this routine and the society we have that have made so much depression and anxiety. It really is an embarrassment to birth that anyone is depressed or anxious. You have to deny so much. You have to deny all your spirit and love and humor and nature and creative life to have days of depression and anxiety. When you have a movie made of your life that ends up being the No. 1 movie in the country and goes all over the world, the world thinks they know who you are, even if you are played by a person a foot shorter than you are. People ask, "How true is the movie?" I often reply, "If I pulled out one hair of your head and asked you if that was you, you would have to say yes. But you wouldn't want all the opinions of you to be based on that one strand of hair." The real person murdered [in the film] was my closest male friend in medical school, but you know Hollywood likes to have a figurative "three tissues of crying" if it's a female friend, and only two if it's a male friend. For me, it's a "three-tissue cry" for Louie, who was really murdered by one of our patients. And if I had my version of the noodle bath [in the] movie to show to you, you'd see just how tame that movie is. What I'm calling for is revolution, ladies and gentleman. If you don't want humans to be extinct, then find a way in your own life to make compassion and generosity who you are, who you are in every gesture of your life, who you are whether anyone else in your club is doing it. We have to make -- at least for our children -- compassion and generosity something of value because they don't get any messages that it's something of value. I'm going to end with a love poem. One of my favorite poets is the most-read poet of the 20th century, a man from Chile, Pablo Neruda. He wrote 100 love sonnets to his wife, Matilda, and this is Number 16. Number 16 I love the handful of the Earth you are. Because of its meadows, vast is the planet. I have no other star. You are my replica of the multiplying universe. Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations. Your skin throbs like a streak of a meteor through rain. Your hips were that much of the moon for me your deep mouth and its delights that much sun. Your heart, fiery with its long red rays, was that much ardent light like honey in the shade. So I pass across your burning form kissing you. Compact and planetary, my dove, my globe. Let's go out and serve the world. Thank you very much. Emory Austin Challenges Attendees to Reach Within Themselves to Make a Difference Editor's Note: The following is an edited version of the speech delivered by motivational speaker Emory Austin, CSP, Jan. 24, during the Closing Breakfast at the American Correctional Association's 2001 Winter Conference. On May 10, 1998, I went to a reception and the guest of honor was internationally known. I watched as, right in the middle of the reception, they brought this man to the piano to honor him with a song. The piano player struck up the chords and I stood there thinking, "Why is she playing, 'The Bear Went Over the Mountain?"' Then, for the very first time in my entire life, I realized that the tunes to "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" and "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" are exactly the same. And I stood there in the middle of that reception thinking, "Well, Emory, one more time you have been hit by an idea that is just as meaningless as it is startling." Has that ever happened to you? I come from the South, and those of us who are that way don't ever want to let a good idea get away. As the singing continued, I stood there in the middle of that reception, analyzing the words to both of those songs. Before the singing was done, I knew that the words to "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" are a lot more important than the words to "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" ever could be. Here's the reason: The bear had a significant unredeemable problem -- when he got to the top of the mountain, all he was capable of seeing was the other side. We come from places rich with experience. We all, on individual mountains, come from those days when we have storms hit us, when we've seen sunrises and sunsets or the unbelievable beauty that can be seen on a mountain journey, and then we are hit hard by something else. And with everything that happens, with every rock we stumble over, we learn something and we change. That's true for everyone here today, and it's true for everyone you serve and everyone you work with, whose very own mountains often seem to be full only of darkness and ledges. But all of us have the ability to make choices. There's another legend about a mountain. In ancient Japan, supposedly, there was a high mountain that became known as "the place you leave your parents" because, in that particular culture, when a parent got to be too old to be considered valuable, it became the responsibility of the oldest son to take his mother or father to the flat-topped mountain and leave him or her there for the gods. One day, we see a middle-aged man making his way through the undergrowth in both physical and emotional pain. On his back was a little old lady and it was his job to take her to the mountain. As they moved along, he noticed that the old woman was reaching up and doing something to the branches that hung down in the way. Partly in exasperation with himself because of what he was having to do, and partly in dismay, he snapped, "What are you doing?" And this old woman, with only about 15 minutes left, and with all the love that she had for a lifetime in her eyes, looked down at her son and said, "I'm breaking branches to mar k the path so that after you leave me, you can find your way back." That's the business you are in. Unified and together in agencies, prisons, jails and all sorts of departments, breaking branches for those whose mountain trips have been filled with things that would horrify most of us. And yet, some of us have been in those very same places, and some of us have made both good and bad choices. Have you ever let a good idea get away from you? Have you ever held on far too long to a bad idea? Have you ever compromised and settled over that which is a so-so idea just to not rock the boat? I want you to take my hand for just a few minutes and go back down your own mountain just a little way and take another look, another kind of safari journey into those early days when patterns were formed, that then became the basis of the choices that we make, and see if, beneath the surface, some of us on our mountains have learned some of the same things. Some of us have some lessons to teach to those who either have been unwilling or unable to learn. How did you grow up? What lines did you hear all the time at your house? I bet every one of us heard all that stuff about if you keep making that face it will freeze in that position. Did you hear the one about if all of your friends were going to jump off a cliff? And all of us certainly know never to leave the house in dirty underwear, don't we? I want to tell you what I had to listen to growing up over and over again to the point of distraction, a line that was delivered to me by parents who were older than 40 when I was born, obviously not in touch with the world at all. Every time I had a problem, what would I get from them? I didn't get any kind of, well, I did get a lecture, but I didn't get any kind of soothing compassionate answer. Every time I would come home from school and complain, one of those gray-headed parents of mine would look me in the eye-and this is the line that I had to grow up hearing - one of them would say to me, "Isn't that fascinating?" "Emory," I would hear, "I wonder if you've looked at all at the ramifications of this problem you seem to be having? Have you looked around the edges of it? Have you looked beneath the surface of it? Have you thought through every possible option?" "Emory," they would say, "what do you think an extraordinary person might do in this situation? How do you think an ordinary person would handle it? Emory," they then would conclude every time, "what a fascinating situation you have gotten yourself into." You might say that I grew up fascinated. In spite of myself, and the older I get, and the more I look around and watch what's happening on my mountain and on everyone else's, the more convinced I am that the single thing that's going to make the biggest difference in your future is not what's in a book, not what's in a manual, but it's what you are fascinated with. In this necessary, oftentimes daunting, sometimes thankless situation in which you have put your lives, your hearts and your careers, as you seek not to help just yourselves, but others, rise to a level that, to some extent, Patch Adams was talking about yesterday, even though he never said the word. We all were created for majesty. Instead of that, we look in all the wrong places for all the wrong things and we disregard the things that have happened on our own mountains. I grew up hearing that line, and I hated it. But that was not all that I hated. By the time, I was in seventh grade, I was the height I am today - nearly 6 feet tall, in the seventh grade. Towering over all the boys an d the girls and the principal. I hated my height and the main reason I hated it was because I figured that it meant nobody would ever marry me. They wouldn't dance with me, so I figured they probably wouldn't marry me either. It seemed like a logical order of progression. I hated my height. And I grew up in a decade in which we still measured success for women pretty much by whether or not they were more or less permanently attached to a male. I figured I never would be. And I was going to have to support myself in some sort of miserable, lonely existence. I did not like my height, but that was not all. As we say in the South, I did not "pube" very early. Have you ever been in a situation that was bad enough to start with, and then with some sort of diabolical glee, the universe just popped you in the face with something that made it even worse? The year I realized that all my little female friends were filling out themselves a whole lot better than I was, was the exact same year that Mattel invented the Barbie doll. I looked around at all the girls I was in school with and at that Barbie doll and would have given anything to have had all the stuff they had. But I was not delicate and feminine and Barbie-like. I was 6 feet tall, gangly and shapeless. Sometimes, a situation like that makes you feel like you just don't belong. Have any of you ever felt like you haven't belonged? That you didn't really fit in anywhere? That's the way I felt. That's the way some of the people you deal with feel. And I remember I used to just pray, "Oh, Lord, just let me belong!" And he misunderstood. That's how I know God is a man. I didn't like my height, my shape, my parents, the lines I heard growing up. But there was one final blow, one nightmare: My name was Emory! Whoever heard of a girl named Emory? A university, maybe. A freight line, maybe. Or something you'd grind your nails off with. But not a girl. And I looked around at all these people I was in high school with. They had names like Barbara and Melissa and Michelle and Debbie and Gwendolyn and Patricia and Sarah and Evelyn and Betty. I had a sister named Betty. If you are in this room and you have the name that I wanted, I want you just to delicately raise your hand into the air. Where are the Lisas? Lisa, where are you? They usually sit in a clump somewhere. You got the name I wanted. I would have given anything to have been named Lisa. But my name was not Lisa. My name was Emory and when I was a senior in high school, I got a draft notice. It was not funny. I stood there in the living room of my house, tears streaming down my cheeks, holding in my very bony little hand, the first of many pieces of paper yet to come from the United States government, and I knew that what I held was more than a draft notice. What it was was proof positive from the strongest government in the world that everything I saw when I looked in the mirror had absolutely nothing to do with what the world wanted from a young woman, and that everything I longed for from the depths of a desperate teen-age heart would never be mine. And I thought it was all over before it ever got started. Isn't life ironic? There is absolutely no way today that I would go back and change a single one of the things that, at one time, brought me such despair because the first best thing I ever learned in my entire life is that an ounce of different in a life, in a heart, in an agency, is worth a pound of sameness any day of the week. And if you can take that about you which has made you uncomfortable, which has made you suffer, which has made you question the place where you stand, take a second look at that and understand that the things with which we are saddled and the things that glorify us are two sides of the same coin. To some extent, your own ministry lies in your history and what you are doing with it. I do not know the entire history of Patch Adams, but I know this: He took a chance on himself because there was a time in his life that he felt like he didn't fit in and he decided that he would make that shine instead of bringing him a dull-eyed despair. Look at the difference that man has made. Every one of us, on our mo untain trip, have those places where we felt like the world didn't care and didn't understand and some of us still stand a chance. The first best thing I ever learned was to honor that which is different and to honor that which makes you stand apart from the crowd in a way that also honors the unity that is necessary in every agency. You're dealing with people whose skin prickles with the understanding beneath the surface of when things are divisive and things are not unified. They know, and it is up to us to figure out how to rise above whatever situation may call out the pettiness in us, and to go for the majesty instead. Part of identity development isn't it? What are you doing to make your differences memorable? How are you joining with other people who have differing strengths to make your organization and your agency as strong as it possibly can be? Let me tell you a quick story about a company that I buy stock in because I saw in a young representative an ounce of different mentality and I look for that everywhere I go. Several years ago, we were hit very hard in North Carolina by Hurricane Hugo. It knocked out all the power and it knocked down all the trees in our yard, with 90-mile-an-hour winds whipping around the house in the middle of the night. I slept through the whole thing -- I was in Peoria at the time. But there on the floor in the hall with the telephone was a 6-foot-7-inch former basketball player, who came off the court long enough to ask me to dance and to ask me to marry him. There was George calling Duke Energy and all he could get was a busy signal. Finally, after four hours of dialing, he got the ringing sound and he got the live voice. George, who had been in sales all his life, would have understood if this Duke Energy representative said something like, "We know the power is out and we're doing the best we can because we care about you, so will you please just be patient and go back to bed?" George would have understood. But that is not what the Duke Energy representative chose to say when George said, "The power has been out now for four hours. What should we do?" The guy from the company said, "Why don't you eat the ice cream?" Brilliant! And my family did! And a week later, we were sitting at breakfast talking about that young man and George and I decided that a company farsighted enough to hire a young man with a mind-set that would enable him to say a line like that in a crisis was a pretty good company to buy stock in. So, every month, I send Duke Energy two checks. One is for what happens when I turn on their light switch and the other for what happened when they turned on mine. When you look for people to enlarge what you are doing, when you look for people to bring into the family what an agency needs to be, look for the mind-set, as well as the skill. My mother did that. She understood the power of a sense of humor. My mother was from Georgia and that state, to her, was the only one th at even needed to exist. She loved Georgia and all she ever wanted was a daughter who was a Georgia peach. I was born, however, in New York. I'm attached to that state; that is my place. My mother didn't feel that way. Her friends knew it and I can remember watching her friends approach and say things like, "Well, Gladys, you may be a Southerner, but your daughter is a Yankee." My mother would stare right back at them and say, "That is not true. My child is not a Yankee. If a cat has kittens in the oven, you do not call them biscuits." You are going to be faced, even more in the future than you were before, with the approach of some-one from the media, either with a microphone or with a pen. And if you can figure out ahead of time what's important to you, what need to be your priorities and can answer them in a way that is quotable and filled with a sense of humor, you are far more likely to be quoted accurately, to get the kind of press you are going to need in the future. And all of it comes from that ounce of difference that all of us have, soaring and singing in our hearts, longing to be able to get out and enlighten not only our own mountain, but the ones of those around us. I love the word illuminate. Maybe we can be illuminators. As we seek ourselves to be illuminated. This is the first best thing I ever learned. Look yourself in the eye in the mirror and honor that which looks back at you. Here's the second best thing I ever learned: Eat crackers in bed and sleep on the crumbs. Don't let yourself get too comfortable where you are, wherever that is. I know you're wondering, how can you be comfortable where you are? Well, it's amazing, isn't it, what we can become comfortable with simply because it has become familiar. Don't let that happen to you. You're facing changes in your whole business picture, in your whole emotion. Everything you deal with is facing changes and some of you are facing some personal changes that nobody knows about but you. Whatever the nature of this contemplated change, you probably won't do anything about it until the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. And that's the point where the cracker crumbs come in and nudge us restlessly toward growth. Don't sweep the cracker crumbs away. Listen to what they are telling you. George married me. No cracker crumbs in my bed. Absolutely happy with everything in my life. Drifting along, day to day, no thing going particularly wrong. Any of you ever been there? All that changed for me on April 12, 1980, when I woke up in the recovery room at Duke University Medical Center to see my husband, George, standing over me. The three words he said on that day were words I never thought I would hear: "It was malignant." And I can remember lying there on that gurney, swinging my head from side to side and screaming, "No!" at the top of my lungs and watching everything change for me, suddenly and swiftly, irretrievably and forever. Some of you have been there and some of you know what that involves. The surgery was on a Friday. I don't know why they do that. The labs all close down for the weekend. You have no idea what is going on in your body. There I was on that Friday night after everybody had gone home, lying there alone, as all of us ultimately are, in that little white hospital bed, in that little white hospital room, staring up at the little white hospital ceiling, having just swallowed a little white hospital pill that was not working. Go back down your mountain, to a place where you were hit, unexpectedly, with a crisis of enormous proportions. Remember how you felt? Remember not being able to think straight? Remember the ideas coming through your head in no order and you couldn't even sort out who you were? I was lying there on that Friday night, alone, and running through my head was something like this: "Oh God, I've got cancer and I could die and I can't get the doctor's attention and I might never see my children grow up and I could die. What am I going to do?" All of a sudden, I heard it . The voice from my past, drifting through the years and through the window, asking me, "Emory, what do you think an extraordinary person might do in this situation?" I have no way of knowing and I hope you'll come tell me afterward what the single best question you ever were asked in your entire life might be. But far and away, shining like a beacon at the top of my mountain was that question. The one I resisted is the best question that I have ever asked and, if every one of us could ask ourselves that question at a juncture when a decision needed to be made, we could have tossed Out a lot of books about how to do it better and how to do it right. I got permission two days later to leave the hospital, got George to take me to a store named T-Shirts Plus, and I had a personalized T-shirt made for the doctor whose attention I could not get. I figured that my best chance at enhancing my life was to get this brilliant, powerful, off-putting doctor, who looked like a combination of God himself and a Russian czar. Anyone ever dealt with someone like that? I figured I needed to get him on my side. So, I had a T-shirt made for him. I spent $7.99 on a dark green T-shirt that had these words across the front: "One of America's 10 best breast men." What I had was a mastectomy. I almost didn't give that silly T-shirt to the doctor. It seemed so inane. But, after all, $7.99 is $7.99. So I gave it to him. He took one look at the message, laughed, looked back at me and word for word, this is what he said: "You did this for me?" And one more time I realized that we are all alike, on whichever side of the bars we find ourselves, all of us are looking for somebody to m ake us feel important. That T-shirt made the doctor feel important. And all the intimidation drifted away and he and I became good friends. We build up a lot of thick skin sometimes because we need to be invulnerable to certain things. And yet, sometimes, it is the part of us that is willing to be a little vulnerable that can make a connection with someone else who is desperate for someone to come along and break a branch for them. Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be willing to change. Be willing to learn from the nightmares in your life that contain hidden treasures. If you will just spend the time to open that fist that hits you in the stomach and see what the treasure inside might be -- the gift that the cancer gave me was freedom forever from what I call the "Scarlett O'Hara syndrome." Thinking, well, I can do that tomorrow. I can think about that tomorrow. I can say that word of encouragement tomorrow. I can be a better team player. I can honor myself and those who serve with me in this unrelentingly tough business that, at the same time, is filled on the other side of the coin with hope. And that's why we're in this business. I learned abou t the ounce of different and I learned about the cracker crumbs. And the third best thing I ever learned was to get out there and figure out how to break some branches for other people. They come through your door and they need what you have to offer. I was reading in one of your magazines that Patty Duke essentially said that Anne Bancroft had broken some important branches for her. Chances are good that Anne Bancroft didn't even know that was a role she was serving in that young woman's life. My mother was an outstanding cook. My dad was a teacher. He was a teacher, and of course, as Patch Adams said yesterday, we never had any money. But we had some. And I can remember being about 7 and going with my mother to the big city of Raleigh, N.C. Trotting all through the streets, Fayetteville Street and everywhere else, looking for what she had dreamed of all her life. Her dreams were both small and large. She wanted a beautiful white linen tablecloth of her very own because in Georgia, that kind of thing is important. We went through every tablecloth in every department store and I was so weary with the whole thing. Finally, we came to a place where there was the perfect tablecloth. I watched her eyes light up and she pulled out her purse. You remember the kind that had the little twist knobs on top? It was a black cloth purse and she pulled out lots of crumpled bills and paid cash for that tablecloth. We took it home and for 30 years, that tablecloth was on our dining room table. Our house was always filled with students. They were there from the time the orange juice went down in the morning until the time the sun went down at night, laughing and talking, playing croquet in one side yard and badminton in the other. Because my teacher daddy, who broke so many branches for me, understood full well that the best teaching doesn't happen in the classroom, but in those moments that are unexpected, when someone else lets their own guard down, just a little bit, and lets something good come through. So every afternoon, my mother would make her way through our house and our yard, through the croquet and the badminton courts, and gather up all those students who had never had dinner with us before. And she would invite them to join us around our table. There we'd be every night -- my mother, my father, my sister, Betty, and me -- laughing and talking, challenging ideas, arguing about things, trying to figure out where we needed to stand in a world that was, even then, full of turmoil. At the end of the meal, my mother would give everyone dessert and coffee, and she would hand every student a pencil with a very dull point. And she would say, "Sign your name to our tablecloth and sometime tomorrow, I will take my white linen thread and I will embroider your name on our cloth. Then my dad, in his always boisterous way, would look every student directly in the eye and he would say, "We want your name on the cloth because the day is going to come when we will be able to say that you ate dinner with us when you were just a student." I look at the white linen cloth that now is mine, that is heavy with embroidered names, some of which you would recognize -- a couple of governors, others who have made major differences, particularly in the fields of law, ministry, medicine and golf. Arnold Palmer's name is on that old cloth. Every time I look at the names they scrawled on there before they understood what a mountain could hold, where they needed to stand in a world that might only give not just them, but those around them, a second chance at a bigger slice of the pie, I wonder how many of them did what they did and became what they became because an old professor thought they had it in them. If he can do it, you can, too. Whether you realize it or not, you really have some students you are dealing with who just haven't learned the right lessons. I've got a wish list for you in closing. I wish for you success, however you define it. I wish for you a dedication to truth, whatever it costs you. You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free, but first it may make you miserable. And if it does, I wish for you a touch of misery if it impales you into growth. I think it was Flannery O'Connor who said, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd." I just love that. You saw a good example of that on the platform yesterday. He revels and rolls around in his own eccentricity that is helping him accomplish his mission, for heaven's sake. And I use that term literally. Do what you need to do within the structure that you find yourself to make it work. Interestingly, I was thinking this morning about two men in the same profession. One of their names is Muhammed Ali, who is suffering from a terrible disease. The other one is Mike Tyson, who is very healthy. And I wondered which of those two is in the worst kind of prison. Fascinating, isn't it? I found this quote that I want also to give you. I didn't memorize it, like Patch is so good at doing, but this is exactly what I'm talking about. Written by a theologian named C.S. Lewis: "Every time you make a choice, you are also turning the central part of you, the part that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all its innumerable choices, you are slowly turning this central thing into a majestic creature or a hellish creature. Either into a creature that is in harmony with God and itself and with its fellow creatures, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God and with its fellow creatures and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven. That is, joy and peace and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotency and eternal loneliness. Each one of us, at each moment, is progressing toward one state or the other. We do not stand still and neither do they." And I was thinking whatever your best questions might be, that my final wish for you would be to be able to stand in a place when a crisis hits you and to say to yourself, "Wait just a minute. Maybe this is one of those things that Emory was talking about back in 2001." And then ask yourself that question, "What would an extraordinary person do here?" And get out there and stretch yourself and expand where you are and push the limits and do that one thing. And I also was thinking that if we ask ourselves those questions and do that which is extraordinary, that maybe, woven among and between and through and the gist of all those other fabulous statements that we call the Beatitudes, maybe there is another one that goes something like this: "Blessed are they who hunt and poke and shout and stand and explore and discover and serve, for they shall rise up and become themselves." SBC WCC Bravo, Opening Session Speaker Sponsors, Brave! SBC Public Communications 6035 Randolph Boulevard San Antonio, TX 78233 (210) 650-8411 Fax: (210) 650-8336 Contact: Danny Ruiz, Director - Market Management Government/Corrections Conventional wisdom defines easy as "A-B-C." We think that's two letters too many. At SBC, home to Ameritech, Nevada Bell, Pacific Bell, Southwestern Bell and SNET, we take the unconventional approach of providing everything you need for a complete inmate calling system. As your single-source provider, we arrange for local and long distance calling, plus flexible and feature-rich equipment. Our unique Consumer Payment Assistance Program helps limit the billing complaints you receive by working directly with the inmate's family and friends to manage calling costs and set a customized call budget to help manage their monthly bill. Plus, we back your system with our trademarked brand of reliable, attentive service. Our 24 x 7 service couples remote diagnostics with locally-based technicians for quick repairs. So, if you want the most complete inmate calling solution, call 1-800-809-0878 or 1-800-804-3385, first. WCC 4200 Wackenhut Drive #100 Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410-4243 (561) 622-5656 * (800) 666-5640 Fax: (561) 691-6659 Contact: Ron Maddux, Vice President, Business Development WCC is keenly aware of the crises governments face, particularly in the area of corrections. WCC continues to develop innovative approaches to solving design, construction, financing and operations issues. Our solutions assist in the implementation of enhanced correctional systems throughout the world. WCC manages existing prisons on behalf of governmental agencies, and is at the forefront in the development of complete corrections packages for new facilities. Our fast track approach results in monetary and critical time savings for our customers with no decrease in the overall quality of services. WCC currently has 55 correctional facilities under contract and/or award around the world with over 40,700 beds. Services are provided to pre-trial and sentenced adult, juvenile offenders, and special needs populations. Bristol-Myers Squibb, thank you for bringing the Annual Luncheon Speaker to Nashville! Bristol-Myers Squibb Immunology 777 Scudders Mill Road Plainsboro, NJ 08536 (609) 897-2000 Web site: www.bms.com The Bristol-Myers Squibb Key Account Managers (KAMs) are a group of 12 dedicated professionals with expertise in HIV/AIDS who are committed to servicing the special needs of correctional institutions. KAMs interface on a daily basis with jails, state and federal prisons, with the objective of improving the quality of life for persons who are incarcerated and infected with HIV/AIDS. Corrections Corporation of America, thank you for bringing the Closing Breakfast Speaker to Nashville! Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) 10 Burton Hills Boulevard Nashville, TN 37215 (615) 263-3000 Fax: (615) 263-3090 E-mail: jamesball@correctionscorp.com Contact: James H. Ball Jr., Vice President, Business Development Based in Nashville, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is the industry leader in private sector corrections with 70 facilities with 68,000 beds under contract or development in the United States, Puerto Rico, Australia and the United Kingdom. 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. Thank you, Closing Breakfast Sponsors, for a morning filled with motivation! AT&T Corporation 4430 Rosewood Drive Room 3510 Pleasanton, CA 94588 (925) 224-1817 Contact: Wayne Jackson, Account Executive 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. Carter Goble Associates, Inc. 1619 Sumter Street Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 765-2833 Fax: (803) 779-8518 E-mail:cgateam@aol.com 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 ACA and its Conference Sponsors: ... An Alliance for Progress? This year in Nashville, more than 3,900 corrections, criminal justice and law enforcement professionals participated in the 2001 Winter Conference of the American Correctional Association! ACA would like to express its sincerest appreciation to the Sponsors of the 2001 Winter Conference. Your support enabled the ACA to make the Conference activities, events and sessions interesting and informative. The annual Winter Conference--with its proliferation of networking and professional development opportunities--is possible through the generous support of ACA Sponsors. THANK YOU SPONSORS, FOR HELPING TO MAKE ACA's 2091 WINTER CONFERENCE ONE TO REMEMBER! ARAMARK CORRECTIONAL SERVICES 2000 Spring Road, Suite 300 Oak Brook, IL 60523 (800) 777-7090 Fax: (630) 571-0280 Web Site: www.aramarkcorrectional.com Contact: Daniel E. Jameson, 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 (800) 777-7090, or visit their web site at www.aramarkcorrectional.com. AT&T CORPORATION 295 N. Maple Avenue Basking Ridge, New Jersey 07920 (806) 785-7977 Contact: Fran Fransoni, Account Executive 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 (815) 744-7000 Fax: (815) 744-7020 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. BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB IMMUNOLOGY 777 Scudders Mill Road Plainsboro, NJ 08536 (609) 897-2000 Web site: www.bms.com The Bristol-Myers Squibb Key Account Managers (KAMs) are a group of 12 dedicated professionals with expertise in HIV/AIDS who are committed to servicing the special needs of correctional institutions. KAMs interface on a daily basis with jails, state and federal prisons, with the objective of improving the quality of life for persons who are incarcerated and infected with HIV/AIDS. ACA Sponsors: Setting Standards of Excellence in Corrections! CANTEEN CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, A DIVISION OF COMPASS GROUP 2400 Yorkmont Road Charlotte, NC 28217 (800) 959-0318 Contact: Kurt Kimball, Executive VP-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 (800) 959-0318, ext. 4074. CARTER GOBLE ASSOCIATES, INC. 1619 Sumter Street Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 765-2833 Fax: (803) 779-8518 E-mail: cgateam@aol.com 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 CHILDREN'S COMPREHENSIVE SERVICES (CCS) 3401 West End Avenue Suite 400 Nashville, TN 37203-6865 (615) 250-0000 Fax: (615) 250-1000 Web Site: www.ccskids.com Contact: Kathy Celauro, Vice President Based in Tennessee, Children's Comprehensive Services, Inc. (CCS), is an industry leader in private-sector special education, alternative schools, behavioral health treatment and juvenile justice with programs under contract in 15 states. CCS programs include a comprehensive continuum of relatively unrestrictive day-treatment programs to highly restrictive juvenile detention centers, training schools and psychiatric hospitalization. The CCS continuum includes family preservation, alternative schools, special education schools, homebound education, on-site education in emergency shelters and diagnostic centers, and sex offender day-treatment. Its residential programs consist of pre-trial detention, therapeutic wilderness (boot) camps, psychiatric treatment centers, training schools, diagnostic centers, sex offender and other treatment facilities. You can find out more about this growing company for your agency. Call Kathy Celauro at (615) 250-0000 or visit our web site at www.ccskids.com. CCS is traded on the NASDAQ exchange (KIDS). COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTERS 75 Livingston Avenue Roseland, NJ 07068 (973) 226-2900, ext. 245 Fax: (201) 659-9625 E-mail: dlisa@cecintl.com Web Site: www.cecintl.com Contact: Dominic Lisa, Director of Business Development Community Education Centers (CEC) is the leading treatment service provider for adults and juveniles involved in the criminal justice system. A three-year Department of Corrections study of one of CEC's programs found recidivism reduced to just 23 percent, although the average is over 70 percent. CEC provides a comprehensive battery of assessments to determine the type and concentration of treatment each participant should receive to reduce the likelihood of their return to committing crimes. CEC provides drug and alcohol treatment, life-skills training, educational and vocational services, outpatient counseling, electronic monitoring and global positioning services. CEC owns and operates a network of 21 treatment facilities, totaling more than 3,000 beds, and designs and constructs its own facilities. COOPER LIGHTING 1121 Highway 74 South Peachtree City, GA 30269 (770) 486-4633 Fax: (770) 486-4830 E-mail: gdeal@cooperlighting.com Contact: Greg Deal, National Sales Manager Cooper Lighting has more than 17 years of experience in the corrections field, and its Fail-Safe brand is one of the nation's leaders. See how Fail-Safe's custom design and manufacturing expertise have evolved into a complete line of energy-efficient, tamper-proof luminaires and lighting controls. Having designed lighting for over 2,000 confinement institutions nationwide, Cooper Lighting knows no two projects ever are alike. Experience and know-how make Fail-Safe the right choice for confinement lighting needs. CORNELL COMPANIES, INC. 1700 West Loop South, Suite 1500 Houston, TX 77027 (713) 623-0790 888) 624-0816 Fax: (713) 623-2853 E-mail: info@cornellcompanies.com Web Site: www.cornellcompanies.com Contact: Business Development Office Cornell Companies is a leading private provider of corrections, treatment and educational services to government agencies. Focusing on adult and juvenile populations in both institutional and community settings, Cornell provides a full array of services in an environment of dignity and respect, emphasizing community safety and rehabilitation in support of sound public policy. Cornell currently has contracts to operate 71 facilities located in 13 states and the District of Columbia and has a total service capacity of 14,294. Sponsors Lead the Way ... Sponsors: The Cream of the crop! CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA (CCA) 10 Burton Hills Boulevard Nashville, TN 37215 (615) 263-3000 Fax:(615) 263-3090 E-mail: jamesball@correctionscorp.com Contact: James H. Ball, Jr., Vice President, Business Development Based in Nashville, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is the industry leader in private sector corrections with 70 facilities with 68,000 beds under contract or development in the United States, Puerto Rico, Australia and the United Kingdom. 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. DELOITTE CONSULTING 200 Clarendon Street Suite 2000 Boston, MA 02116-5091 (617) 850-2390 Fax: (617) 850-2001 Contact: James Bradford, Director - Law and Justice Deloitte Consulting is a leader in the corrections and integrated criminal justice systems arena. Our consulting services to the corrections industry cover the full range of management functions, including business process reengineering, information technology - design, development and implementation - and change leadership. We can assist correctional agencies in improving operational efficiencies and eliminating redundant processes. This will enable agencies to control costs and realize the benefits of a streamlined, standardized operation. We can assist correctional agencies in identifying, acquiring, developing and deploying new technology enablers that will support and enhance the correctional operations. DICK CORPORATION P.O. Box 10896 Pittsburgh, PA 15236-0896 (412) 384-1000 Fax: (412) 384-1150 Contact: John Sebastian, President - Building Division; David D. 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 Bahamas, Guam and Hawaii. Privately held since 1922, Dick Corporation welcomes you as a potential new client. GILBANE 7 Jackson Walkway Providence, RI 02903 (401) 456-5800 *(800) 444-5266 Fax: (401)456-5936 E-mail: justice@gilbaneco.com Web Site: www.gilbaneco.com HEERY Contact: Dennis Cornick, Vice President and Division Director of Marketing/Criminal Justice When you build a justice facility today, public expectations are high, the need for facilities is acute, time is often short and funding is usually tight. Gilbane delivers solutions to take your project from initial concept and financing through construction and start-up. With Gilbane as your facility partner, you get firsthand experience-people who are well-versed in today's advanced technologies and can manage complex projects and challenging schedules while identifying potential cost savings. Engineering News Record has consistently ranked Gilbane as one of the country's top three corrections builders. So whether it's program management, construction management, project management, general contracting or design/build, Gilbane provides the most valuable kind of service-the kind that is based on having seen it and done it and solved it before. HDR ARCHITECTURE, INC. Offices Nationwide Contact: Michael Brenchley, AIA, Detention/Jails, (800) 776-4371 and Jeff Goodale, AIA, Corrections, (773) 380-7900 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. HEERY INTERNATIONAL, INC. 999 Peachtree Street, NE Atlanta, GA 30309 (404) 881-9880 (800) 52-HEERY Fax: (404) 875-1283 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. Sponsors Strive for Excellence! HKS INC. 1919 McKinney Avenue Dallas, TX 75201-1753 (214) 969-5599 Fax: (214) 969-3397 Contact: John H. Richardson, Senior Vice President HKS Inc., a nationally recognized 61-year-old architectural firm, provides professional services in architecture, planning and engineering. HKS has offices in Dallas; Atlanta; 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, adult detention centers, special needs facilities for substance abuse and psychiatric care, and medical examiner/crime laboratory facilities. HKS has also, for the seventh consecutive year, been recognized by Modern Healthcare magazine 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 (704) 358-0779 Fax: (704) 358-0229 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. JACOBS FACILITIES INC. Offices Nationwide Phone: (610) 558-9612 Contact: Stephen Donohoe, 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 over 1,500 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 are able to provide 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! Sponsors: Dedicated Professionals! KEEFE SUPPLY COMPANY 10880 Lin Page Place St. Louis, MO 63132-1008 (800) 325-8998 (314) 963-8700 Fax: (314) 963-8774 E-mail: keefemrkt@aol.com 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 locations include: Denver (CO), Jacksonville (FL), Atlanta (GA), St. Louis (MO), Reno (NV), Edison (NJ), Cleveland (OH), Dallas (TX), Chesapeake (VA) and Seattle (WA). MCGREGOR INDUSTRIES, INC. 46 Line Street Dunmore, PA 18512 (570) 343-2436 Fax: (570) 343-4915 E-Mail: dbland@mcgregorindustries.com 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, Illinois and Northern California, we can meet your jail and prison new construction and renovation security system needs. McGregor also operates a full Parts and Service Center to meet all of your lock and sliding device repair and replacement needs as well as your other hardware and hollow metal needs. Our Service Center staff is available to help you assess your locking problems and recommend a cost-effective fix. For our Construction Division contact Henry Vancleave at 1-800-326-6786 and for our Parts and Service Center contact Tim Gallagher at 1-877-JAIL-PARTS (1-877-524- 5727). MCI WORLDCOM 2520 Northwinds Parkway, Suite 500 Alpharetta, GA 30040 Phone: (770) 625-6985 Fax: (770) 625-6603 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. Sponsors: Reaching New Heights PRISON HEALTH SERVICES, INC. (PHS) 105 Westpark Drive, Suite 300 Brentwood, TN 37027 (800) 729-0069 Contact: Lawrence H. Pomeroy, SVP Marketing Prison Health Services, Inc. (PHS), founded the correctional managed health-care 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 more than 175,000 inmates across 278 locations in 30 states. Our comprehensive medical, dental and mental health services are tailored to the unique needs of each client. With the recent addition of Secure Pharmacy Plus, which provides pharmaceutical management programs to correctional facilities, we serve over 300,000 detainees in 40 states. Beyond cost savings and risk management benefits, we ensure quality of service through a rigorous physician/health care professional credentialling program and medical services that meet the standards of NCCHC, ACA and other accrediting bodies. PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES 11859 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 600 Los Angeles, CA 90025 (800) 350-1000 Fax: (310) 473-4714 Contact: Randall Yankee, Director of Marketing Public Communications Services is a pioneer in the management and execution of system integration for inmate telephone systems. Serving a client base of federal, state and local facilities with collect-only, pre-pay, and debit systems, either singularly or in combination, PCS provides the value of experience and the results of the newest technologies derived from providing excellence in customer service. As a neutral systems integration firm, PCS is unencumbered by exclusive agreements for pre-selected call control platforms, local or long distance carriers. Every system is tailored to the individual client. The single goal of PCS is to meet and exceed our clients' desires. Call and experience the results of experience from a pioneer in inmate telephone systems integration, operation and management. RNL DESIGN 1515 Arapahoe Street Tower 3, Suite 700 Denver, CO 80202 (303) 295-1717 Fax: (303) 292-0845 Contact: Florian Walicki, Principal or Steve Radomski-- Institutional Studio; or Chuck Boxwell, Associate Principal, (213) 955-9775 (Los Angeles) As a national architectural, planning and engineering firm with offices in Denver, Phoenix and Los Angeles, 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, public relations, architectural design, facility analysis, engineering systems design and coordination, and construction facilitatio n. Sponsors-Stars of tke Conference ROSSER JUSTICE SYSTEMS/ROSSER INTERNATIONAL, INC. 524 West Peachtree Street, NW Atlanta, GA 30308 (404) 876-3800 Fax: (404) 876-3912 E-mail: jmatthews@rosser.com Contact: Joy L. Matthews, Vice President, Business Development ROSSER 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 SBC PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS 6035 Randolph Boulevard San Antonio, TX 78233 (210) 650-8411 Fax: (210) 650-8336 Contact: Danny Ruiz, Director - Market Management Government/Corrections SBC Conventional wisdom defines easy as "A-B-C." We think that's two letters too many. At SBC, home to Ameritech, Nevada Bell, Pacific Bell, Southwestern Bell and SNET, we take the unconventional approach of providing everything you need for a complete inmate calling system. As your single-source provider, we arrange for local and long distance calling, plus flexible and feature-rich equipment. Our unique Consumer Payment Assistance Program helps limit the billing complaints you receive by working directly with the inmate's family and friends to manage calling costs and set a customized call budget to help manage their monthly bill. Plus, we back your system with our trademarked brand of reliable, attentive service. Our 24 x 7 service couples remote diagnostics with locally-based technicians for quick repairs. So, if you want the most complete Inmate calling solution, call 1-800-809-0878 or 1-800-804-3385, first. SCHLUMBERGER-GLOBAL TEL* LINK 2609 Cameron Street Mobile, AL 36607 (334) 479-4500 Fax:(334) 473-4588 E-mail: jkunlx@mobile.global.slb.com Web Site: www.globaltellink.com Contact: Joe Kuntz, Corporate Communications Manager Global Tel*Link, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Schlumberger Technologies, Inc., a business segment of the $8.4 billion Schlumberger Limited, provides the LazerPhone inmate telephone system and the LazerVoice digital recording and monitoring system throughout the United States. LazerPhone was conceived and designed specifically for the corrections market. LazerPhone can generate detailed reports to analyze calls by date and time, call frequency and duration, blocked numbers and more. This allows correctional facilities to detect irregularities and stop trouble before it starts. LazerPhone lets you share information with law enforcement officials anywhere because of its sophisticated networking capabilities. Global Tel*Link and MCI WorldCom recently formed a strategic marketing partnership, which offers the most technologically advanced equipment and the most reliable networking and customer service available in Sponsors: Achieving Excellence SCREENED IMAGES MULTIMEDIA (SIM) 159 Burgin Parkway Quincy, MA 02169 (617) 471-4445 Fax: (617) 770-3339 Web Site: www.simworld.com Contact: Lee Proscia, Business Development SIM, creator of the award-winning Corrections Connection[R] 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. Their Corrections Connection[R] Network is the largest online business-to-business and news and information resource in corrections, receiving over 3.8 million hits per month. SIM also remains the leader in inmate orientation videos and customized officer training videos in Spanish, English and sign language and has recently emerged as a key provider in the long distance learning market, including online training and live satellite cybercasts. SIM's clients include: the Correctional Accreditation Managers Association, the Jail Industries Association, the American Correctional Association, the American Jail Association, the Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, Eastern Kentucky University, the National Institute of Corrections and the National Institute of Justice. SECURICOR NEW CENTURY, LLC 9609 Gayton Road, Suite 100 Richmond, VA 23233 (804) 754-1100 Fax: (804) 741-9515 Contact: Charles J. Kehoe, Vice President Securicor New Century, LIC, 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. TOWER PINKSTER TITUS ASSOCIATES, INC. (TPTA) 1000 South Burdick Street P.O. Box 3508 Kalamazoo, Ml 49003-3508 (616) 343-6133 Fax: (616) 343-6633 E-mail: rbromfield@tpta.com Web Site: www.TPTA.com Contact: Richard W. Bromfield, AIA Director, Justice/Government Group During our 26 years in correctional facility evaluation, programming and design, TPTA has completed $63 million in correctional projects, totaling more than 2,050 beds. TPTA's experience includes prototypical maximum-security and multi-security prisons and jails, as well as flex-secure juvenile detention and treatment centers. Our specialists provide the necessary guidance and counsel on current design approaches to facility operation (staffing practices), management philosophies and strategies utilized in correctional design, particularly in the design and specification of communication, detection CCTV, lighting and life-safety systems. TPTA welcomes the opportunity to discuss how we can assist you in meeting your facility goals. Sponsors--Making It Happen! TURNER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 375 Hudson Street New York, NY 10014 (212) 229-6000 Fax: (212) 229-6185 Contact: Thomas R. Turner, Director of Marketing Established in 1902, Turner continues to be a recognized leader in providing building construction services. For more than 25 years, the company has been building facilities for the nation's justice system: jails, prisons, justice centers, judicial, law enforcement and juvenile facilities. With more than 170 justice projects, Turner is firmly established as the number one justice builder in the industry. For many years, Turner has completed an average of one justice project per month and that record will extend into the next few years. More than 200 of our staff have worked on one or more justice facilities projects. They are team-oriented individuals who each share the common goal of exceeding the expectations of their clients. Our clients appreciate our history of completing quality projects ahead of schedule and within budget and often choose us again when they have subsequent justice or other building projects. U.S. MEDICAL GROUP, INC. 1405 S. Orange Avenue, Suite 603 Orlando, FL 32806 (407) 849-2288 Fax: (407) 849-6412 E-mail: sthompson@usmginc.com Web Site: www.usmginc.com Contact: Sandy Thompson, Chief Operating Officer U.S. Medical Group, Inc. (USMG), is currently the leading provider of contracted on-site surgical services through its mobile surgical units for departments of correction. USMG contracts with surgeons and employs health-care professionals who deliver top-quality surgical services at correctional facilities in Florida and North Carolina. The mobile surgery units and equipment are state of the art; the staff is carefully selected to provide the highest quality of care. USMG's focus is on security and cost-control. By providing surgical services on-site, transportation to public facilities is eliminated, security risk is greatly reduced and costs are controlled. As the inmate population and health care costs increase across the country, USMG aims to provide a viable solution to reduce security risks and costs to the departments of correction in each state. UNISYS Justice & Public Safety Practice 12010 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20191 Phone: (703) 620-7485 E-mail: thomas.livoti@unisy.com Contact: Tom Livoti, Senior Consultant Unisys Justice & Public Safety Practice's Jail Management System (JMS) addresses critical concerns of jail and corrections managers, including inmate tracking and location, immediate data access, paper flow reduction, inmate identification and accurate reporting. JMS supports multiple-facility operations, including demographic, arrest and behavioral data, and biometric data-mugshots and fingerprints. Unisys analyzes and re-engineers business processes ensuring that functions support specific client needs. Once requirements are defined, functions are developed, tested, integrated, installed and retested within the operational environment. Unisys also provides implementation support and training ensuring successful transition to feature-rich, user-friendly operations. ACA Sponsors are key in Making URS 33 North High Street Columbus, Ohio 43215 (614) 464-4500 Fax: (614) 464-0588 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 inferior design firm with 160 principal offices providing a diverse range of professional services to public and private clients nationwide. Our Criminal Justice Center of Excellence is headed by Allen L. Patrick, FAIA, NCARB, who for over 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. VERIZON PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS GROUP 13100 Columbia Pike, D32 Silver Spring, MD 20904 Phone: (301) 282-5641 Fax: (301) 236-0071 E-mail: Maria.E.Riddick@verizon.com 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 payphones; 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 IntelliFraudsm, 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 setup controls to stop fraud. We build and mount our heavy-duty corrections payphones 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 the inmates' families and a variety of attractive commission and incentive programs for the correctional facility. WCC 4200 Wackenhut Drive #100 Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410-4243 (561) 622-5656 (800) 666-5640 Fax: (561) 691-6659 E-mail: rmaddux@wackenhut.com Contact: Ron Maddux, Vice President, Business Development WCC is keenly aware of the crises governments face, particularly in the area of corrections. WCC continues to develop innovative approaches to solving design, construction, financing and operations issues. Our solutions assist in the implementation of enhanced correctional systems throughout the world. WCC manages existing prisons on behalf of governmental agencies, and is at the forefront in the development of complete corrections packages for new facilities. Our fast track approach results in monetary and critical time savings for our customers with no decrease in the overall quality of services. WCC currently has 55 correctional facilities under contract and/or award around the world with over 40,700 beds. Services are provided to pre-trial and sentenced adult, juvenile offenders, and special needs populations. Monday Exhibit Hall Reception "A Little Italy" in Nashville The sauce was flying during the SPAGHETTI-EATING contest at the MONDAY evening EXHIBIT HALL EVENT, "A LITTLE ITALY" in Nashville. The participants looked like chefs in their crisp white aprons and hats that were decorated especially for the CONTEST. By the end of the messy event, BETTY ADAMS GREEN, ACA president, emerged as the winner. It was a great time for all of the pasta and sauce-eating participants and those who watched. The spaghetti-fest participants were CHUCK ZEHOE, ACA president-elect; GWENDOLYN CHUNN, ACA vice president; DAVID PARRISH, ACA treasurer; DONAL CAMPBELL, commissioner, Tennessee Department of Correction; KEN POMPI, managing director, Cornell Companies, Inc.; JOE PEKAROVIC, Inmate Services director, Public Communications Services; and BUDDY GOLSON, president, Rosser Justice Systems/Rosser International, Inc. All of the participants were awarded with an array of ITALIAN-THEME PRIZES. THANK YOU SPONSORS FOR YOUR SUPPORT IN MAKING THIS EVENING A SUCCESS! CORNELL Cornell Companies, Inc. 1700 West Loop South, Suite 1500 Houston, TX 77027 (713) 623-0790 (888) 624-0816 Fax: (713) 623-2853 E-mail: info@cornellcompanies.com Web Site: www.cornellcompanies.com Contact: Business Development Office Cornell Companies is a leading private provider of corrections, treatment and educational services to government agencies. Focusing on adult and juvenile populations in both institutional and community settings, Cornell provides a full array of services in an environment of dignity and respect, emphasizing community safety and rehabilitation in support of sound public policy. Cornell currently has contracts to operate 71 facilities located in 13 states and the District of Columbia and has a total service capacity of 14,294. Public Communications Services 11859 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 600 Los Angeles, CA 90025 (800) 350-1000 * Fax: (310) 473-4714 Contact: Randall Yankee, Director of Marketing Public Communications Services is a pioneer in the management and execution of system integration for inmate telephone systems. Serving a client base of federal, state and local facilities with collect-only, pre-pay, and debit systems, either singularly or in combination, PCS provides the value of experience and the results of the newest technologies derived from providing excellence in customer service. As a neutral systems integration firm, PCS is unencumbered by exclusive agreements for pre-selected call control platforms, local or long distance carriers. Every system is tailored to the individual client. The single goal of PCS is to meet and exceed our clients' desires. Call and experience the results of experience from a pioneer in inmate telephone systems integration, operation and management. Rosser Justice Systems/Rosser International, Inc. 524 West Peachtree Street, NW * Atlanta, GA 30308 (404) 876-3800 * Fax: (404) 876-3912 E-mail: jmatthews@rosser.com 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. Tuesday Exhibit Hall Event Thank you Sponsors for making this event a BLAST! "Exhibit Explosion" of Technology, Products and Services The Exhibit Hall sizzled during the "Exhibit Explosion" event at the 2001 Winter Conference in Nashville. Attendees mingled in the hall, visiting booths to ask questions of the exhibitors and to trade in their business cards for an entry card to play the "Hot" Ticket Game. Participants entered as many tickets as they could collect. Seven attendees were the winners of great prizes. Other activities included golf putting and shoe shining. It was a blast! The winners of the "Hot" Ticket Game were: Kathy Bingham, LaGrange, Ky. Harry Forbes, Milford, Pa. Linda Fung, Dayton, Ohio Lt. Millie Judd, Kissimmee, Fla. Terre Marshall, Dedham, Mass. Col. Wylonda Miller, St. Gabriel, La. John D. Rees, Madison, Ind. ARAMARK Correctional Services 2000 Spring Road, Suite 300 Oak Brook, IL 60523 (800) 777-7090 * Fax: (630) 571-0280 Web Site: www.aramarkcorrectional.com Contact: Daniel E. Jameson, 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 (800) 777-7090, or visit their web site at www.aramarkcorrectional.com. Gilbane 7 Jackson Walkway Providence, RI 02903 (401) 456-5800 * (800) 444-5266 * Fax: (401) 456-5936 E-mail: justice@gilbaneco.com Web Site: www.gilbaneco.com Contact: Dennis Cornick, Vice President and Division Director of Marketing/Criminal Justice When you build a justice facility today, public expectations are high, the need for facilities is acute, time is often short and funding is usually tight. Gilbane delivers solutions to take your project from initial concept and financing through construction and start-up. With Gilbane as your facility partner, you get firsthand experience--people who are well-versed in today's advanced technologies and can manage complex projects and challenging schedules while identifying potential cost savings. Engineering News Record has consistently ranked Gilbane as one of the country's top three corrections builders. So whether it's program management, construction management, project management, general contracting or design/build, Gilbane provides the most valuable kind of service--the kind that is based on having seen it and done it and solved it before. HKS Inc. Architects/Engineers/planners HKS Inc. 1919 McKinney Avenue Dallas, TX 75201-1753 (214) 969-5599 Fax: (214) 969-3397 Contact: John H. Richardson, Senior Vice President HKS, Inc., a nationally recognized 61-year-old architectural firm, provides professional services in architecture, planning and engineering. HKS has offices in Dallas; Atlanta; 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, adult detentior centers, special needs facilities for substance abuse and psychiatric care, and medical examiner/crime laboratory facilities. HKS has also, for the seventh consecutive year, been recognized by Modern Healthcare magazine 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. U.S. Medical Group, Inc. 1405 S. Orange Avenue, Suite 603 Orlando, FL 32806 (407) 849-2288 Fax: (407) 849-6412 E-mail: sthompson@usmginc.com Web Site: www.usmginc.com Contact: Sandy Thompson, Chief Operating Officer U.S. Medical Group, Inc. (USMG), is currently the leading provider of contracted on-site surgical services through its mobile surgical units for departments of correction. USMG contracts with surgeons and employs health-care professionals who deliver top-quality surgical services at correctional facilities in Florida and North Carolina. The mobile surgery units and equipment are state of the art; the staff is carefully selected to provide the highest quality of care. USMG's focus is on security and cost-control. By providing on-site surgical services, transportation to public facilities is eliminated, security risk is greatly reduced and costs are controlled. As the inmate population and health-care costs increase across the country, USMG aims to provide a viable solution to reduce security risks and costs to the departments of correction in each state. Grand Prize Giveaway Desiree Batsche, director of the Warren County Juvenile Detention Center in Ohio, was the Lucky winner of the 2001 Winter conference Grand Prize Giveaway trip to South Africa. The prize is an all-expense paid, 1O-day excursion that begins in Johannesburg and ends in Cape Town. Ms. Batsche and her husband, Andrew, will enjoy three same viewings in Mpumalanga at Kruger National Park, a flight to Cape Town to explore South Africa's "Mother City" through visits to museums and shops. They will also tape in a full day of sightseeing along the stunning coastline to visit Cape Point and a drive through the picturesque wine country to visit a vineyard, tour its wine cellar and sample excellent wines. "I'VE NEVER WON ANYTHING IN MY LIFE," MS. BATSCHE SAID AMID ALL OF THE EXCITEMENT. Roseland, NJ 07068 Congratulations is also extended to the runners-up, Joan Carter of the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women and Walter Smith of the Denver Sheriff Department. They won a Kodak digital camera with complete accessory kit and a Panasonic DVD/Video/CD Player respectively. Thank you Sponsors for your support and help in making the Grand Prize Giveaway a continual success! Community Education Centers 75 Livingston Avenue Contact: Dominic Lisa, Director of Business Development (973) 226-2900, ext. 245 Fax: (201) 659-9625 E-mail: dlisa@cecintl.com Web Site: www.cecintl.com Community Education Centers (CEC) is the leading treatment service provider for adults and juveniles involved in the criminal justice system. A three-year Department of Corrections study of one of CEC's programs found recidivism reduced to just 23 percent, although the average is over 70 percent. CEC provides a comprehensive battery of assessments to determine the type and concentration of treatment each participant should receive to reduce the likelihood of their return to committing crimes. CEC provides drug and alcohol treatment, life-skills training, educational and vocational services, outpatient counseling, electronic monitoring and global positioning services. CEC owns and operates a network of 21 treatment facilities, totaling more than 3,000 beds, and designs and constructs its own facilities. COOPER Lighting Cooper Lighting 1121 Highway 74 South Peachtree City, GA 30269 (770) 486-4633 * Fax: (770) 486-4830 E-mail: gdeal@cooperlighting.com Contact: Greg Deal, National Sales Manager Cooper Lighting has more than 17 years of experience in the corrections field, and its Fail-Safe brand is one of the nation's leaders. See how Fail-Safe's custom design and manufacturing expertise have evolved into a complete line of energy-efficient, tamper-proof luminaires and lighting controls. Having designed lighting for over 2,000 confinement institutions nationwide, Cooper Lighting knows no two projects ever are alike. Experience and know-how make Fail-Safe the right choice for confinement lighting needs. Dick Corporation P.O. Box 10896 Pittsburgh, PA 15236-0896 (412) 384-1000 * Fax: (412) 384-1150 Contact: John Sebastian, President - Building Division; David D. 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 Bahamas, Guam and Hawaii. Privately held since 1922, Dick Corporation welcomes you as a potential new client. Grand Prize Giveaway: Thank you Sponsors for your support! HEERY International, Inc. 999 Peachtree Street, NE * Atlanta, GA 30309 (404) 881-9880 * (800) 52-HEERY Fax: (404) 875-1283 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. MCI WORLDCOM MCI WorldCom 2520 Northwinds Parkway, Suite 500 Alpharetta, GA 30040 Phone: (770) 625-6985 * Fax: (770) 625-6603 Web Site: www.wcom.com/govt. Contact: Steve Montanaro, National Marketingand 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. Schlumberger Schlumberger-Global Tel*Ling 2609 Cameron Street Mobile, AL 36607 (334) 479-4500 * Fax: (334) 473-4588 E-mail: jkuntz@mobile.globals.slb.com Web Site: www.globaltellink.com Contact: Joe Kuntz, Corporate Communications Manager Global Tel*Link, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Schlumberger Technologies, Inc., a business segment of the $8.4 billion Schlumberger Limited, provides the LazerPhone inmate telephone system and the LazerVoice digital recording and monitoring system throughout the United States. LazerPhone was conceived and designed specifically for the corrections market. LazerPhone can generate detailed reports to analyze calls by date and time, call frequency and duration, blocked numbers and more. This allows correctional facilities to detect irregularities and stop trouble before it starts. LazerPhone lets you share information with law enforcement officials anywhere because of its sophisticated networking capabilities. verizon Verizon Public Communications Group 13100 Columbia Pike, D32 * Silver Spring, MD 20904 Phone: (301) 282-5641 * Fax: (301) 236-0071 E-mail: Maria.E.Riddick@verizon.com 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 payphones; 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 IntelliFraudsm, 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 to stop fraud. We build and mount our heavy-duty corrections payphones 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 the inmates' families and a variety of attractive commission and incentive programs for the correctional facility. POLICIES AND RESOLUTIONS MEMBER INPUT SOUGHT ON NEW POLICY Editor's Note: The following proposed policy was approved for entry into the policy development process: Public Correctional Policy on Re-Entry of Offenders. It is printed below for member review and comment. Comments should be sent to: James Turpin, Legislative Liaison, American Correctional Association, 4380 Forbes Blvd., Lanham, MD 20706; fax (301) 918-1900; e-mail: jamest@aca.org. Please submit comments by July 1. PROPOSED PUBLIC CORRECTIONAL POLICY ON RE-ENTRY OF OFFENDERS INTRODUCTION: The effect of many local, state and federal laws and policies makes it difficult for offenders to successfully re-enter their communities. Offenders are often excluded from some housing because of criminal convictions. Offenders may have difficulty obtaining Medicaid and medical assistance eligibility, securing medication and treatment, entering certain licensed occupations, and gaining job training and employment assistance when they re-enter their communities. Parents may face additional re-entry problems, including child custody and/or prosecution for nonpayment of child support while imprisoned. POLICY STATEMENT: Successful re-entry is in the best interest of society because it reduces the likelihood of further criminal behavior. Correctional agencies should advocate for the review of existing laws and regulations that may inhibit the successful re-entry of offenders. Therefore, in order to develop, support and provide linkages to programs that provide for successful re-entry of offenders, public and private agencies at the federal, state and local levels should: A. Provide an expedited process to obtain proper state identification, such as a driver's license, prior to release; B. Provide information and assistance to obtain housing, including a process of relief from exclusion from public housing of offenders and their families; C. Provide information and assistance to obtain Medicaid, medical and substance abuse treatment, and other health and psychological services to offenders in the community upon release; D. Provide information and assistance to permit offenders to gain employment, such as employment-readiness training, work skills, job fairs, assistance in handling background check waivers, job placement, rehabilitative services, expungement of records or other processes; and E. Provide information and assistance to reunite parents and children, such as shelters, residential placements, assisted living, halfway houses and other family and community placement networks. NEW RESOLUTION ADOPTED Editor's Note: The following resolution was adopted: Restoration of Voting Rights. RESOLUTION ON THE RESTORATION OF VOTING RIGHTS WHEREAS, citizens in many states who have been convicted of felonies and have completed their sentences including community supervision do not have the right to vote; and WHEREAS, many states have some restrictions on felons voting; and WHEREAS, the loss of the right to vote is not based on a need to protect the integrity of the electoral process and the justice system; and WHEREAS, the loss of the right to vote does not serve any rehabilitative function; and WHEREAS, felony disenfranchisement disproportionately affects segments of the population; and WHEREAS, disenfranchisement laws work against the successful reintegration of offenders as productive citizens into the community; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the American Correctional Association advocates for the restoration of voting rights upon completion of the offender's sentence, including community supervision. AMENDED AND APPROVED POLICIES The existing Public Correctional Policies on Crime Prevention, Crowding and Excessive Workloads, and Design of Correctional Facilities were reviewed, amended and approved for continuation. In addition, the Public Correctional Policies on Community Service and Inmate/Juvenile Offender Access to Telephones, which previously were printed in the October issue of Corrections Today for member input, received final approval in Nashville. ACA's FIRST CHARITY SILENT AUCTION A SUCCESS The American Correctional Association's (ACA) first-ever silent auction took place at its 2001 Winter Conference in Nashville, Tenn., raising $8,000 for Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit, nondenominational housing organization that seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness worldwide, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. The auction began Saturday, Jan. 20, and ended the afternoon of Tuesday, Jan. 23. Participants were able to place bids on a variety of items, from airfare and hotel packages to jewelry and crafts. There were 150 bidders and more than 100 items up for auction, donated by a variety of individuals, agencies and companies, including: * Airfare for two on Southwest, USAirways or Delta airlines (donated by President-Elect Chuck Kehoe, and Jim and Betty Gondles); * Tennessee Titans autographed football (donated by ACA President Betty Adams Green); * Marriott room certificates; * Scenic watercolors (Washington Correctional Association); * Historic ballot from the 1994 South African presidential election (National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice); * A San Antonio Spurs basketball used during the team's championship season with a certificate of authenticity (San Antonio Convention and Visitors' Bureau); * Mahogany lateral filing cabinet Tennessee Correctional Industries - TRICOR); * Personal computer and monitor (Colorado Correctional Industries); * Landscape oil paintings (Florida Department of Corrections, inmate Al Black); and * National Law Enforcement Memorial commemorative medal (Center to Prevent Handgun Violence). Congratulations to the winning bidders and sincere thanks to all who donated items! A special thank you to the hosts of this year's conference -- Tennessee Department of Correction, Department of Children's Services, Department of Probation and Parole, TRICOR, Children's Comprehensive Services and the Tennessee Correctional Association. Please be sure to check out the next ACA Silent Auction to be held during the 131st Congress of Correction in Philadelphia Aug. 11-15. If you would like to donate items to the auction or have other questions, contact Jim Turpin at 1-800-222-5646, ext. 1885, or Jeff Washington at ext. 1803. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/2001WinterconferenceOverview,Nashville.-a079629238

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1890-1900 pendant made of gilt silver, set with paste stones, and decorated with beautiful enamel. The techniques used to create this are almost identical to the same techniques that would be used with gold and precious stones.

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"Circa 1890-1900 Pansy earrings have such exquisite enamel! Just look at that subtle green/yellow/peach/pink!!! The diamond-set wires are newly-made by us and a make a lovely and subtle compliment."

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A gorgeous baroque-shaped natural pearl shines with a soft luster from a leafy platinum top studded with sparkling antique diamonds and a secure backing of carved yellow gold. The original bail made from platinum-topped gold with diamonds throughout is the perfect compliment to this most amazing piece. Hung from a 17-inch long platinum chain accented with seed pearl stations. Platinum and 14k gold, circa 1910. Find this jewel as “From the Sea” on our website.

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"Deeply saturated, royal purple amethysts are complimented by a 1940s-50s Victorian Revival bezel. ~7.20 cts each. 14k gold. Modern lever back wires." Maloy's Jewelry.

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"14k Art Nouveau creatures protect a deep purple amethyst in this pendant converted from a pin, ca. 1900." Maloy's Jewelry.

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"Bit O' Forest" Pendant. "A natural tourmaline in rich forest green makes a sweet pendant when framed in lacy yellow gold. A tiny pearl is set into the frame, with another pearl dangling below and introducing a touch of movement. An elegant addition to your jewelry wardrobe, the fine detail and nuanced shade of green feel both precious and earthy. Pendant measures a bit over .75” to the bottom of the dangle, with an integrated chain for a total length of 17.5” Maloy's Jewelry, Portland, Oregon.🌲

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"We are all swooning over these incredible and rare pieces. Hundreds of tiny hand made glass tiles are arranged to form a shimmering beetle and a blue floral swag on a pure white ground. These remarkable panels are held in elegant gold earrings with touches of Egyptian Revival detail. They measure a dramatic 2.75” from the top of the ear wire to the bottom of the dangle. 14k yellow gold, ca. 1870, most likely Italian and most definitely magnificent." Maloy's Jewelry

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Circa 1900 14k pendant in a grape leaf motif, set with natural pearl “grapes,” encircling a bright natural coral cabochon.

Maloy's Jewelry - Portland, Oregon

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Nouveau Jewel

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Vibrant green emerald surrounded by antique rose cut diamonds. 14K gold ring, early-Victorian - Georgian.

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Art Deco pendant. "Bright white old pear cut diamond weighing 0.45 carats, bezel is set in platinum and is surrounded by an elongated frame of sparkling diamonds and deep blue channel set sapphires. The pendant was converted from a stick pin here in our workshop and is threaded through a 14k white gold cable chain. The pendant measures 1 inch long from the top of the articulated bail." Maloy's Jewelry, Portland, Oregon.

🍐Find this pendant as “Deco Blue” on our website. Free US shipping. Layaway available.