Category: News
Legacy Friday: Kim Potter-Blair—When Service Become
Legacy Friday continues its recognition of the leaders currently entrusted with carrying CPOF’s mission forward. This week, we recognize Vice-Chair Kim Potter-Blair—a Correctional Officer who rose to statewide executive leadership, a longtime advocate for reentry and professional development, the first woman elected CPOF Vice-Chair, and a leader whose understanding of “Taking Care of Our Own” […]
Project 2000 – XXXIV
The Correctional Peace Officers Foundation will be hosting PROJECT 2000 XXXIV in St. Louis, Missouri From June 15 – June 18, 2023. The annual memorial service honoring Correctional Staff who lost their lives in the Line of Duty will take place Friday, June 16, 2023. Attendees are limited to 500 for this event, be sure […]
Remembering Charles “Charlie” Leroy Bennett Sr.: A Life of Service
The Correctional Peace Officers Foundation joins the corrections and law enforcement communities in mourning the passing of Charles “Charlie” Leroy Bennett Sr., who passed away on July 22, 2026, at the age of 81. Charlie was born on April 23, 1945, and was the adopted son of Warren and Mary Bennett of Middlesboro, Kentucky. Throughout […]
Legacy Friday: Chevi Amrein—Leading with Strength and Serving with Humanity
After honoring the leaders who carried the vision of CPOF’s Founding Five forward, Legacy Friday now turns toward those entrusted with leading the Foundation today. We begin with Chevi Amrein—an accomplished correctional leader, longtime Honor Guard Commander, victims’ rights advocate and the first woman elected Chairman of CPOF’s Board of Directors. Her legacy is still […]
Attica at 55: Training, Remembrance and a Promise to Never Forget
Fifty-five years after the tragedy at Attica, correctional professionals, survivors, families and honor guard teams once again gathered in Western New York with a shared purpose: to remember the fallen, honor the survivors and ensure that the lessons and sacrifices of Attica are never forgotten. For the Correctional Peace Officers Foundation, this year’s remembrance extended […]
Legacy Friday: Jim Brown—The Keeper of Folsom’s Story
Legacy Friday honors the leaders who carried the vision of CPOF’s Founding Five forward. This week, we remember James “Jim” Brown—a retired Correctional Lieutenant, historian, author, museum leader, mentor, and CPOF National Director and Treasurer who devoted more than half a century to the correctional profession and preserving its history. Every correctional institution holds stories […]
Legacy Friday: Don Dease—Leading with Love and Serving Through Action
Legacy Friday has honored the leaders who carried the vision of CPOF’s Founding Five forward. As we prepare to recognize the members of the Foundation’s current Board of Directors, we first honor the man who uniquely connects those chapters of CPOF history: Donald “Don” Dease—a distinguished correctional leader, devoted CPOF representative, former Secretary and Vice […]
Legacy Friday: Ed Barcliff—The Kind of Leader Who Never Met a Stranger
With the conclusion of our Founding Five series, Legacy Friday begins a new chapter—honoring the leaders who carried the founders’ vision forward. We begin with Edgar “Ed” Winfield Barcliff Jr., a trailblazing Correction Officer, longtime National Director and Vice Chairman whose warmth, leadership and more than three decades of service helped shape the CPOF family. […]
Retirement Ends the Shift—Not the Connection
For correctional professionals, retirement marks the end of a career defined by service, sacrifice, and commitment. But retiring from the job does not mean leaving behind the correctional family—or the Foundation that has stood beside you throughout your career. The Correctional Peace Officers Foundation allows retired corrections professionals to maintain their active membership. By continuing […]
Founder Friday: Don Novey—He Refused to Let the Lesson Be Lost
As we conclude our Founding Five series, we honor Don Novey—a second-generation Correctional Officer, Army veteran, transformative labor leader and founding Director whose determination helped make corrections safer, stronger and more respected while ensuring that families affected by tragedy would never stand alone. Don Novey never treated an assault, injury or line-of-duty death as something […]