2025 ACA 155th Congress of Correction Denver_Program Book

Expertise and Experience: Including Lived Experience to Empower Programs and People Room 104 Overview: Lived experience is a critical component to programming that can better reach incarcerated individuals when the expert has “walked in their shoes.” How can you ensure someone’s lived experience is the right fit for your opportunity? How can you make sure lived experience is more than just a box to check? This workshop covers exemplary practices for including lived experience in programming. A practitioner and a scholar share their expertise on collaborating with individuals with lived experience across various settings and programs, educating participants on potential benefits and drawbacks. Lived experience can complement practitioner and scholarly expertise for a holistic approach to ensure individuals are better off than when they arrived. Speakers: Matt Moore , Senior Director, Reentry Services, CoreCivic, Brentwood, Tennessee; Kevin Wright , Associate Professor, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona Living Your Mission: Engaging Internal and External Stakeholders to Support Safe and Effective Women’s Services Room 108 Overview: In 2020, the Vermont Department of Corrections worked to reinvigorate department-level women’s services. This included a re-seating of the Women’s Services Director position, reaffirmation of partnerships both internal to and external to the department and development of structures for collaboration. In the last five years, in conjunction with stakeholders, VDOC has navigated the enhancement of evidence-based and responsive practice, programs, services, and training, and beginning the process of building a new women’s facility in an era of prison abolitionism. Progress has been significant due in large part to formalized group work for the implementation

A prison/jail reform advocate, posing as a construction worker, spends months inside an under-construction jail. Ultimately, just weeks before opening, three loaded guns are found hidden in the walls of the 762-bed maximum-security facility, delaying the jail’s opening and costing taxpayers millions. How was his deadly plan foiled, why did he do it and how can it be prevented in future projects? Speakers: Brian Beazley , Technical Specialist II, Davidson County Sheriff’s Office, Nashville, Tennessee; Thomas Conrad , Facility Administrator, Correctional Development Center — Female, Davidson County Sheriff’s Office, Nashville, Tennessee; Daron Hall , Davidson County Sheriff’s Office, Nashville, Tennessee; Sheriff, Davidson County Sheriff’s Office, Nashville, Tennessee; Cory Witkus , Lieutenant, Security Division, Nashville, Tennessee How Utilizing an Energy Savings Performance Contract Can Fund Capital Improvements Room 103 Overview: Correctional facilities are some of the most energy-intensive buildings and therefore offer a great opportunity for savings from high-performance design. These facilities also have some of the largest lists of CIP and facility improvement needs. They also universally struggle with funding for the basic routine maintenance for their facility, let alone major building improvements. By utilizing an Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC), energy efficiency improvements can be made without requiring a large upfront capital expenditure. The contractor’s payment comes from the energy savings generated. With those energy savings, it allows facilities to tackle large capital upgrade needs. This workshop will cover how ESPC is a viable method Speakers: Adam Kane , National Corrections Business Development Director, Johnson Controls, Orlando, Florida; Gary Shotwell , Warden — Retired, Louisiana Department of Corrections, Jackson, Louisiana

WORKSHOPS

Saturday, Aug. 23 ▼ 3–4:30 p.m.

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