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Grand Prize Winners

Grand prize drawing caps Winter Conference A s the 2024 Winter Conference drew to a close and the still packed exhibit hall continued with the hustle and bustle of thousands of corrections professionals networking and exchanging information, the capstone event of the Conference happened on the center stage. Hundreds of hopeful attendees who had made

As the finalists reached the stage, the excite ment built, and the crowd was ready to see one of their own walk away with the Grand Prize. As the second and third place prizes were awarded, a Motorola Razr Plus Flip Phone and an Apple Watch, the winner of the Grand Prize learned of his great fortune. Jamie N. Sadler of Chafee, MO and a Missouri Department of Corrections Probation and Parole officer was the lucky winner of $10,000 cash. With this, another Winter Conference Exhibit Hall was in the books. Thanks go out to the ACA staff who organized the event, the exhibitors who brought the latest and best in new technologies, solutions and hardware for the many attendees to peruse and the attendees for making this a fantastic Conference experi ence. CT

their way around the packed exhibit hall and gotten their game tickets stamped awaited as the entries tumbled and swooped inside the large brass drum used to randomly choose a winner. ACA President Denise Robinson assisted by Master of Ceremonies Deputy Executive Direc tor Jeffrey Washington oversaw representatives from our Grand Prize sponsors Allied Universal Electronic Monitoring, Vital Core Health Strate gies, AcornVac and Acorn Engineering to select the three finalists. Attendees listened intently as three names were pulled from the drum.

— BY KIRK RAYMOND

ACA 2024 WINTER CONFERENCE

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