The document provides an agenda and details for the 2014 Fall FTO Conference held in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee from September 8-11. It lists the conference topics and speakers, including discussions on high risk medical transports, human trafficking, PREA audits, mental health services, intake/classification, prisoner discipline, victim notification systems, and impacting the jail environment. The schedule outlines events for each day including registration, breakout classes, meals, and a technology exposition with vendors.
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East Tennessee Children's Hospital's mission is to improve the health of children through exceptional, comprehensive
family-centered care, wellness and education. Our School Nurse Conference puts that mission into action within the
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Mental Health in Law EnforcementIndya KamaraSaint Leo University
I. The Problem
Mental health is an increasing problem in law enforcement. While mental illnesses may not be a direct correlation to crimes that are committed, offenders are found populating the jails and prisons (Peterson, 2014). When offenders are arrested and jailed for the crimes that they commit, through experience in the field, they are under-treated for mental illnesses.
II. Factors Bearing the Problem
The bearing factors comes in many forms as there can be many different things that play a role in the under-treatment of mental illnesses in offenders in the law enforcement realm. Evans, Huang, & Hser (2011) argues that the contributing factors to mentally ill offenders being under-treated are due to the lack of assessments of mental health needs, trained professionals, and lack of multiple locations to treat those who are struggling with mental illnesses.
i. The behaviors that offenders exhibit are at times overlooked by law enforcement officials on a whole. Law enforcement officials are not recognizing the behaviors of offenders that exhibit the characteristics of being mentally ill as it comes in different forms with different people. There are many officers that are not aware of mental health illnesses which they may need additional training recognizing the behavioral signs and symptoms.
ii. Due to the lack of training an officer may receive, they may miss the behavioral sign or symptoms and are unable to properly assess offender’s needs. Officer’s inability to assess what an offender’s needs are puts them at a disadvantage to offer treatment versus putting them in the jail environment untreated. Many times, offenders are not assessed for mental illnesses unless they are suspected of having symptoms of mental illnesses and are committed involuntarily by an officer or voluntarily on their own in an effort of seeking help. In many cases, offenders are transported to jail instead of a psychiatric facility to seek help for that offender.
iii. While offenders are in their mental illness state, they are oftentimes unaware of what is happening to them to request the help that they need. On the other hand, some offenders may be aware of what may be wrong with them and are in denial so they fail to accept treatment.
iv. Withholding medications that have successfully managed patient symptoms are also an issue with the jail system. Individuals may have encounters with the law due to stopping medications and instead of patients being restarted on medications that keep them regulated, those medications such as antipsychotic medications continue to be withheld in the correctional facilities. Thereby, continuing the cycle of mismanagement of behavioral health issues.
References
Evans, E., Huang, D., & Hser, Y. (2011). High-risk offenders participating in court-sup.
Running head MENTAL HEALTH IN LAW ENFORCEMENT1MENTAL HEALTH IN.docxtodd581
Running head: MENTAL HEALTH IN LAW ENFORCEMENT 1
MENTAL HEALTH IN LAW ENFORCEMENT 4
Mental Health in Law EnforcementIndya KamaraSaint Leo University
I. The Problem
Mental health is an increasing problem in law enforcement. While mental illnesses may not be a direct correlation to crimes that are committed, offenders are found populating the jails and prisons (Peterson, 2014). When offenders are arrested and jailed for the crimes that they commit, through experience in the field, they are under-treated for mental illnesses.
II. Factors Bearing the Problem
The bearing factors comes in many forms as there can be many different things that play a role in the under-treatment of mental illnesses in offenders in the law enforcement realm. Evans, Huang, & Hser (2011) argues that the contributing factors to mentally ill offenders being under-treated are due to the lack of assessments of mental health needs, trained professionals, and lack of multiple locations to treat those who are struggling with mental illnesses.
i. The behaviors that offenders exhibit are at times overlooked by law enforcement officials on a whole. Law enforcement officials are not recognizing the behaviors of offenders that exhibit the characteristics of being mentally ill as it comes in different forms with different people. There are many officers that are not aware of mental health illnesses which they may need additional training recognizing the behavioral signs and symptoms.
ii. Due to the lack of training an officer may receive, they may miss the behavioral sign or symptoms and are unable to properly assess offender’s needs. Officer’s inability to assess what an offender’s needs are puts them at a disadvantage to offer treatment versus putting them in the jail environment untreated. Many times, offenders are not assessed for mental illnesses unless they are suspected of having symptoms of mental illnesses and are committed involuntarily by an officer or voluntarily on their own in an effort of seeking help. In many cases, offenders are transported to jail instead of a psychiatric facility to seek help for that offender.
iii. While offenders are in their mental illness state, they are oftentimes unaware of what is happening to them to request the help that they need. On the other hand, some offenders may be aware of what may be wrong with them and are in denial so they fail to accept treatment.
iv. Withholding medications that have successfully managed patient symptoms are also an issue with the jail system. Individuals may have encounters with the law due to stopping medications and instead of patients being restarted on medications that keep them regulated, those medications such as antipsychotic medications continue to be withheld in the correctional facilities. Thereby, continuing the cycle of mismanagement of behavioral health issues.
References
Evans, E., Huang, D., & Hser, Y. (2011). High-risk offenders participating in court-sup.
El Paso County Suicide Prevention Call to Action 17 January 2020Duane France
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Running head MENTAL HEALTH IN LAW ENFORCEMENT1MENTAL HEALTH IN.docxglendar3
Running head: MENTAL HEALTH IN LAW ENFORCEMENT 1
MENTAL HEALTH IN LAW ENFORCEMENT 4
Mental Health in Law EnforcementIndya KamaraSaint Leo University
I. The Problem
Mental health is an increasing problem in law enforcement. While mental illnesses may not be a direct correlation to crimes that are committed, offenders are found populating the jails and prisons (Peterson, 2014). When offenders are arrested and jailed for the crimes that they commit, through experience in the field, they are under-treated for mental illnesses.
II. Factors Bearing the Problem
The bearing factors comes in many forms as there can be many different things that play a role in the under-treatment of mental illnesses in offenders in the law enforcement realm. Evans, Huang, & Hser (2011) argues that the contributing factors to mentally ill offenders being under-treated are due to the lack of assessments of mental health needs, trained professionals, and lack of multiple locations to treat those who are struggling with mental illnesses.
i. The behaviors that offenders exhibit are at times overlooked by law enforcement officials on a whole. Law enforcement officials are not recognizing the behaviors of offenders that exhibit the characteristics of being mentally ill as it comes in different forms with different people. There are many officers that are not aware of mental health illnesses which they may need additional training recognizing the behavioral signs and symptoms.
ii. Due to the lack of training an officer may receive, they may miss the behavioral sign or symptoms and are unable to properly assess offender’s needs. Officer’s inability to assess what an offender’s needs are puts them at a disadvantage to offer treatment versus putting them in the jail environment untreated. Many times, offenders are not assessed for mental illnesses unless they are suspected of having symptoms of mental illnesses and are committed involuntarily by an officer or voluntarily on their own in an effort of seeking help. In many cases, offenders are transported to jail instead of a psychiatric facility to seek help for that offender.
iii. While offenders are in their mental illness state, they are oftentimes unaware of what is happening to them to request the help that they need. On the other hand, some offenders may be aware of what may be wrong with them and are in denial so they fail to accept treatment.
iv. Withholding medications that have successfully managed patient symptoms are also an issue with the jail system. Individuals may have encounters with the law due to stopping medications and instead of patients being restarted on medications that keep them regulated, those medications such as antipsychotic medications continue to be withheld in the correctional facilities. Thereby, continuing the cycle of mismanagement of behavioral health issues.
References
Evans, E., Huang, D., & Hser, Y. (2011). High-risk offenders participating in court-sup.
Running head MENTAL HEALTH IN LAW ENFORCEMENT1MENTAL HEALTH IN.docxtodd581
Running head: MENTAL HEALTH IN LAW ENFORCEMENT 1
MENTAL HEALTH IN LAW ENFORCEMENT 4
Mental Health in Law EnforcementIndya KamaraSaint Leo University
I. The Problem
Mental health is an increasing problem in law enforcement. While mental illnesses may not be a direct correlation to crimes that are committed, offenders are found populating the jails and prisons (Peterson, 2014). When offenders are arrested and jailed for the crimes that they commit, through experience in the field, they are under-treated for mental illnesses.
II. Factors Bearing the Problem
The bearing factors comes in many forms as there can be many different things that play a role in the under-treatment of mental illnesses in offenders in the law enforcement realm. Evans, Huang, & Hser (2011) argues that the contributing factors to mentally ill offenders being under-treated are due to the lack of assessments of mental health needs, trained professionals, and lack of multiple locations to treat those who are struggling with mental illnesses.
i. The behaviors that offenders exhibit are at times overlooked by law enforcement officials on a whole. Law enforcement officials are not recognizing the behaviors of offenders that exhibit the characteristics of being mentally ill as it comes in different forms with different people. There are many officers that are not aware of mental health illnesses which they may need additional training recognizing the behavioral signs and symptoms.
ii. Due to the lack of training an officer may receive, they may miss the behavioral sign or symptoms and are unable to properly assess offender’s needs. Officer’s inability to assess what an offender’s needs are puts them at a disadvantage to offer treatment versus putting them in the jail environment untreated. Many times, offenders are not assessed for mental illnesses unless they are suspected of having symptoms of mental illnesses and are committed involuntarily by an officer or voluntarily on their own in an effort of seeking help. In many cases, offenders are transported to jail instead of a psychiatric facility to seek help for that offender.
iii. While offenders are in their mental illness state, they are oftentimes unaware of what is happening to them to request the help that they need. On the other hand, some offenders may be aware of what may be wrong with them and are in denial so they fail to accept treatment.
iv. Withholding medications that have successfully managed patient symptoms are also an issue with the jail system. Individuals may have encounters with the law due to stopping medications and instead of patients being restarted on medications that keep them regulated, those medications such as antipsychotic medications continue to be withheld in the correctional facilities. Thereby, continuing the cycle of mismanagement of behavioral health issues.
References
Evans, E., Huang, D., & Hser, Y. (2011). High-risk offenders participating in court-sup.
El Paso County Suicide Prevention Call to Action 17 January 2020Duane France
The El Paso County Suicide Prevention Call to Action is part of the Colorado National Collaborative, a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention in El Paso County, Colorado
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2014 fto conference flyer (1)
1. 2014 FALL FTO CONFERENCE
2014 Conference Speakers:
Topic: High Risk Transportation—
Medical Transports
Speakers: Joe Avary and Don Ben-son—
U.S. Marshall’s Retired
Topic: Human Trafficking—The role
in corrections
Speaker: Heath Kane—Davidson
County Sheriffs’ Office
Topic: PREA Audits for local Jails
Speaker: Chief Brian Bivens—Knox
County Sheriffs’ Office
Topic:: Mental Health Services in
the Criminal Justice System .
Speakers: Melissa Sparks, Dr. Jeff
Feix, Elizabeth Ledbetter TDMHSAS
Topic: Intake and Classification
Speaker: James Chipp —National
Sheriffs’ Association
Topic: Prisoner Discipline
Speaker: Glenn Ercanbrack—
National Sheriffs’ Association
Topic: TN SAVIN
Speaker: Gary Cordell
Impacting the Jail Environment:
C. Stephen Byrum PhD
AGENDA
Monday, September 8th
5:30-7:00pm
Early Registration ONLY
Convention Center Lobby
5:30-6:30pm
Meeting with FTO’s
(Training Waiver Agencies)
MUSIC ROAD HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER
303 HENDERSON CHAPEL RD. PIGEON FORGE TN
T E N N E S S E E C O R R E C T I O N S I N S T I T U T E
303 Henderson Chapel Rd.
Pigeon Forge, TN
September 8 - 11
Tuesday, September 9th
6:00-8:00am - Breakfast
Hotel Guest Breakfast Room
8:00-9:30am - Registration
Convention Center Lobby
8:00-11:00am - Vendor Hall
Technology Exposition
11:00-12:30pm - Awards Luncheon
1:00-4:30pm - Breakout Classes
4:30-6:00pm - Regional Training Meeting
7:00-11:00pm - Vendor Reception
Wednesday, September 10th
6:00-8:45am - Breakfast
Hotel Guest Breakfast Room
Vendor Hall—Tech. Expo
9:00-10:15am - Breakout Classes
10:30-11:45am - Breakout Classes
12:00-1:00pm - Lunch
1:15-2:15pm - Breakout Classes
2:30-3:30pm - Breakout Classes
3:45-5:15pm - Large Class
Thursday, September 11th
6:00-8:45am - Breakfast
9:00-11:00am - Large Class
11:00 –12:00pm - Evaluations Final Door Prize
and Dismissal
2. C. Stephen Byrum, PhD
Crimes Tribunal. Mr. Avary’s skills and
expertise are in: Counterterrorism, Govern-ment,
Security Management, Evidence,
Internal Investigations, Crisis Manage-ment,
Security Operations, Crime Preven-tion,
Personal Protection, Protection, Crim-inal
Law, Security, Fraud and Policy. Mr.
Avary has a BS in Criminology from the
University of Albuquerque and Master-work
in Public Administration at the Uni-versity
of New Mexico.
Steve Byrum is a native of Athens, Tennes-see.
He studied in the public schools of
Athens and McMinn Country before matric-ulating
at the University of Richmond,
Maryville College, and Tennessee Wesley-an
College. Dr. Byrum graduated from
Tennessee Wesleyan in 1969 with a Bache-lor’s
Degree (cum laude) in Philosophy and
Religion. He then received a Masters of
Divinity Degree from Southern Seminary
(with honors), and completed his graduate
work with a Masters of Arts and a Doctor-ate
of Philosophy in philosophy from the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville (with
highest honors). Dr. Byrum has completed
post-graduate work at Vanderbilt Universi-ty,
Princeton University (on 2 occasions),
and Spellman College. He has received
grants from the National Endowment for
Joseph R. Avary
Joe Avary is the owner of Avary Consulting.
He is a retired Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal
from the U.S. Marshals Service where he
served in the Middle District of Tennessee
as well as the District of Nebraska. Joe was
responsible for all operational and adminis-trative
responsibilities within both districts.
Mr. Avary is also a former Chief Inspector
with Interpol (Lyon, France) at the Interna-tional
Notices Branch where he performed
as a Law Enforcement Liaison for the War
the Humanities, National Science Foun-dation,
and Tennessee Committee for the
Humanities, and received the Tennessee
Wesleyan Distinguished Alumnus of the
year in 1993. Dr. Byrum is the author of
over 40 books and more than 100 periodical
articles. A primary focus of Byrum’s pro-fessional
career has been the work of Rob-ert
S. Hartman, PhD, with whom he stud-ied
during his graduate work at the Univer-sity
of Tennessee. Byrum has furthered
Hartman’s original work, and has created
various applications of the Judgment As-sessment
for business, industry, and educa-tion.
He has also developed a national repu-tation
as a speaker and seminar leader relat-ing
to topics of workforce selection, leader-ship
development, and crisis/change/stress
management.
Training Academy, Chief Deputy in both
the Middle and Eastern Districts of Ten-nessee,
and the United States Marshal in
both the Eastern District’s of Virginia and
Tennessee. Chief Benson served as a
Team Leader for the Critical Incident
Response Team, responding to the Ruby
Ridge shooting, Oklahoma City Bombing
and the 9-11, World Trade Center attacks,
receiving the Marshals Service highest
award, the Director’s Award for his in-volvement
and service during those
events. Chief Benson has a Bachelors of
Science Degree in Law Enforcement
from the University of Tennessee.
Don Benson
Donald R. Benson retired as the Chief
Deputy United States Marshal for the
Eastern District of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Tennessee, in June 2002, after 26 years in
federal law enforcement. Chief Benson’s
law enforcement career began in 1973
with the Rockford Police Department,
Rockford, Tennessee, and continued with
the Maryville Police Department,
Maryville, Tennessee, until his employ-ment
as a Deputy United States Marshals
in 1976. Chief Benson worked as an In-spector
for the Witness Security Program,
Inspector/Instructor at the Marshal’s
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3. Chief Brian Bivens—Knox County Sheriffs’ Office
Heath Kane—Instructor Davidson Co. Sheriffs’ Office
see. Heath has multiple letters of Accommoda-tion
in his file from schools, ACA, Career Days,
etc. The main project that he has been doing for
years is a Red Cross Blood Drive that is called
“The Battle of the Badges”. Heath meets with
people from the Metro Police Department, Metro
Fire Department and the Nashville Chapter of the
American Red Cross to get this event in place. It
is now held at the Tennessee Titan Stadium and
is the largest producer of pints of blood for a
single day event in Tennessee Valley Region and
was even aired on 104.5 The Zone (a sports sta-tion
in the Nashville Area). Heath is married to
Sarah and has 3 children, Jackson, Elijah, and
Samuel. Heath has dual BS degrees in Psycholo-gy
and Political Science from MTSU, and a Mas-ter’s
Degree from Cumberland University in
Public Service Management.
Brian is a graduate of the University of Ten-nessee
with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Soci-ology,
with a concentration in Criminal Jus-tice.
Brian began his career with the Knox
County Sheriff’s Office in 1994 as a Correc-tions
Officer at the Knox County Jail. In Oc-tober
of 1995, he was promoted to Assistant
Intake/Release Supervisor as a Corporal. In
November of 1996, he was promoted to In-take/
Release Supervisor and Classification
Supervisor with the rank of Sergeant. Also in
1996, Brian received his POST certification
when he graduated the Knox County Sheriff’s
Office Regional Law Enforcement Training
Academy. In 1998, he was promoted to Lieu-tenant
and was given the position of Intake/
Release Director. In September of 2001 Cap-tain
Heath Kane started employment with the
Davidson County Sheriff’s Office in April of
1991. Heath worked as a Correctional Of-ficer
from April 1991 until August 1991,
when he started working as a Case Manager
and worked as a Case Manager from April
1991 until April 1993. He worked in Classi-fication
from April 1993 until October
1993. Heath then promoted to Training In-structor
in November of 1993 and has been
an Instructor since that time. Next year will
be 20 years in the Davidson County Sheriff’s
Office Training Division. Heath has twice
been Employee of the Month in March 2004
and June 2011.In 2012 Heath was the recipi-ent
of TCI’s “Facility Trainer of the Year”
award. And in 2013 Heath won the Red
Cross “Hometown Hero-Outstanding Volun-teer”
of the year award for Middle Tennes-
Bivens was named the KCSO Accreditation
Manager. In December 2002, Brian received
the promotion to Assistant Chief and become
the Facility Commander for the Knox County
Sheriff’s Detention Facility. In 2006, Brian was
named the Facility Commander over the Knox
County Jail. In October of 2014, Brian will be
overseeing his sixth American Correctional
Association Audit of the Roger D. Wilson De-tention
Facility (formally the Knox County
Sheriff’s Detention Facility) and the first Amer-ican
Correctional Association CORE Audit for
the Knox County Jail. In November of 2014,
Brian will oversee the first Prison Rape Elimi-nation
Act (PREA) audit for all three Knox
County Correctional Facilities.
Gary Cordell—Tennessee Sheriffs’ Assoc.
ration, a Nashville based holding compa-ny
and as Chief Operating Officer of
Clayton Associates, a Brentwood, Ten-nessee
based Venture Capital Firm.
Mr. Cordell has served as Chairman of
the Board of Goodwill Industries, Chair-man
of the Better Business Bureau of
Middle Tennessee, Board member of
Park Center, Alumni Board member for
Leadership Nashville, and currently
serves on the Board for Crime-Stoppers
of Nashville. He also served as Campaign
Manager for former Governor Winfield
Dunn.
He and his wife Kathleen have five chil-dren
and reside in Franklin, Tennessee.
Gary Cordell joined the Tennessee Sheriff’s
Association in December of 2013 as the
statewide SAVIN Coordinator. SAVIN is the
automated victim notification system that
allows victims of crime to tract an inmate’s
status while in the County jail system.
Prior to coming on board with the Associa-tion,
Mr. Cordell served as the Director of
Division of Consumer Affairs for the state of
Tennessee where he implemented the first
statewide initiative to link County Sheriffs to
state agencies in an effort to improve commu-nication
and to build a distribution network
for identity theft and scam prevention printed
materials. Before coming to state govern-ment,
he had a successful career in the private
sector as President of Cherokee Equity Corpo- Page 3
4. Dr. Dr. Jeff Feix— Jeff TN Dept. Feix— of Mental Health TN & Substance Dept. Abuse of Services
Mental Health & Substance Abuse
Services
Elizabeth Ledbetter—TN Dept. of Mental Health & Substance
Abuse Services
state. Prior to joining the staff in the
Division of Substance Abuse Ser-vices,
Office of Criminal Justice
Services, she had been a Mental
Health Program Specialist where
she was responsible for the devel-opment,
implementation and over-sight
of the criminal justice/mental
health liaison projects and the Ten-nessee
Mental Health and Criminal
Justice Training Program. Addition-al
state experience includes, work-ing
in the Department of Finance
and Administration, Office of Crim-inal
Justice Programs as a Program
Manager.
Ms. Ledbetter has a long history of
working in state government con-centrating
in the field of mental
health/substance abuse services and
criminal justice. Currently she
works in the Department of Mental
Health and Substance Abuse Ser-vices,
Division of Substance Abuse
Services, Office of Criminal Justice
Services as the Recovery Drug
Court Administrator. In this role
she is responsible for the implemen-tation
and oversight of the Recov-ery
Drug Court programs across the
Dr. Jeff Feix earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology
from the University of Kentucky and completed an
internship at the Harvard Medical School in 1989.
He has worked in the public sector as a therapist, a
forensic psychologist and a sex offender treatment
provider in Massachusetts and Virginia before com-ing
to Tennessee as the Director of Forensic and
Juvenile Court Services for the Department of Men-tal
Health and Substance Abuse Services in July of
Melissa Sparks RN, MSN—TN Dept. of Mental
Health & Substance Abuse Services
for Forensic Services and as Unit Coor-dinator
at Middle TN Mental Health
Institute for a total of 21 years of state
experience.
Melissa Sparks has served as the
TDMHSAS Director of Crisis Services
and Suicide Prevention since Septem-ber
2009. Melissa is a Registered Nurse
and graduated from MTSU with her
Master’s in Science Nursing degree in
2011. Prior to her current role, Melissa
served as the Standards Coordinator for
Hospital Services, Forensic Specialist
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5. James Chipp—National Sheriffs’ Assoc. NIJO
James Chipp, is a Correctional Adminis-trator
for the Utah Dept. of Corrections
and a retired Captain Jail Commander
for the Weber County Sheriff’s Office.
He has 30 years of experience in the field
of corrections. James started as a correc-tional
officer at the Weber County Sher-iff’s
Office and advanced through the
ranks of Sgt., Lieutenant, and Captain in
his 21 years of service at Weber County.
James is currently assigned as the Con-tract
Monitor Supervisor, responsible for
the inspections and audits of the opera-tions
for the county jails that contract
with UDC.In his career of 30 plus years,
all of James’s experience involves work-ing
in a county jail or coordinating with
county jails. He has served as a Jail In-spector
for the Utah Sheriffs’ Association
and the National Institute for Jail Opera-tions.
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lative issues, contract monitoring which
includes inmate management, jail safety
and security and jail operational practices
and procedures. He is a certified correc-tional
and law enforcement officer for the
State of Utah. He is a certified Jail Com-mander
for Utah Sheriff’s Association
and instructs in many venues on inmate
classification, intake and release, griev-ance
procedures, PREA and other legal
based correctional standards. He has
provided expert testimony/ reports to
include staffing pattern and programming
reviews.
Glenn G. Ercanbrack is the Director of
the Inmate Placement Program for the
Utah Department of Corrections. Glenn
is an innovative leader with over 19 years
experience working in many levels and
divisions within the Utah Department of
Corrections to include Captain, Investiga-tor,
Probation and Parole Agent. He has
also been the Director of the Northern
Utah Community Correctional Center a
150 bed work release center. Since Feb-ruary
2008, he has been assigned to over-see
21 county jail contracts worth over 30
million dollars annually. Glenn is re-sponsible
for policies, procedures, legis-
James is a certified instructor for
the Utah POST Corrections Academy and
has provided various training subjects at
numerous Sheriffs’ Offices through the
State of Utah. In addition to instructing
throughout Utah, James has taught and
presented in various states including Ala-bama,
Arizona, Colorado, Texas, and
Michigan. He assists in training and in
coordination for the Utah Jail Command-ers’
Association and the National Insti-tute
for Jail Operations. James has served
for the past 19 years as a committee
member for the Utah Sheriffs’ Associa-tion
Annual Training conference and
currently is a committee member on the
National Sheriffs’ Association Jail Train-ing
Advisory Committee.
Middle: Stewart, Montgomery, Robertson,
Sumner, Dickson, Cheatham, Davidson,
Wilson, Hickman, Williamson, Rutherford,
Macon, Trousdale, Wayne, Lewis, Law-rence,
Giles, Maury, Marshall, Lincoln,
Moore, Bedford, Franklin, Coffee, Cannon,
Smith , DeKalb, Clay, Pickett, Jackson,
Overton, Fentress, Putnam, White and Mor-gan.
East: Cumberland, Warren, Grundy, Mari-on,
Van Buren, Sequatchie, Bledsoe, Ham-ilton,
Rhea, Meigs, Bradley, Roane,
Loudon, McMinn, Polk, Monroe, Blount,
Training Waiver Agencies have a meeting On
Monday Sept. 8th at 5:30 pm to discuss training
locations as well as in-service training for 2015.
All agencies currently operating under a training
waiver must attend.
A Regional Training Meeting will be held for
all other agencies Tuesday Sept. 9th at 4:30 pm to
discuss training schedules and locations:
West: Shelby, Tipton, Fayette, Lauderdale, Dyer,
Lake, Obion, Weakley, Gibson, Crockett, Hay-wood,
Madison, Hardeman, Chester, McNairy,
Hardin, Perry, Decatur, Henderson, Carroll, Hen-ry,
Benton, Houston and Humphreys.
Knox, Sevier, Cocke, Jefferson, Grainger, Un-ion,
Anderson, Scott, Campbell, Claiborne,
Hancock, Hawkins, Hamblen, Greene, Sullivan,
Washington, Unicoi, Carter and Johnson.
The Tennessee Chaplains’ Association will
be hosting a meeting at the Music Road Con-vention
Center from 9 am to 11 am on Tuesday
September 9th. All persons interested are wel-come
to attend. RSVP: (615) 898-7847 or
(615) 642-6193.
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Glenn G. Ercanbrack—National Sheriffs’ Assoc. NIJO
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TENNESSEE
CORRECTIONS
INSTITUTE
500 James Robertson Pkwy.
Nashville TN. 37243
Phone (615)741-3816
Fax (615)532-2333
www.tn.gov/tci
NASHVILLE OFFICE
TCI PERSONNEL
BETH ASHE – EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
LANCE HOWELL - DEPUTY DIRECTOR
JOANNE POGUE - ADMINISTRATION
WILLIAM WALL – TRAINING COORDINATOR
JEAN LIGON
DEBBIE BURNS-HATHAWAY
DETENTION FACILITY SPECIALISTS
WEST
BOB BASS—DFS/CCP COORDINATOR
CARRIE FORGUSON—DFS
EDDIE DOWDY—DFS
MIDDLE
MILLER MEADOWS—DFS
JOE FERGUSON—DFS
JERRY SCOTT—DFS
EAST
ROBERT KANE—DFS
DENISE MESSER—DFS
TONYA WEST—DFS