Category: News
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 […]
Honoring the Backbone of Our Justice System: National Correctional Officers and Employees Week
Each year during the first full week of May, our nation takes time to recognize and honor the dedicated individuals who serve in one of the most challenging and often overlooked professions: corrections. Known officially as National Correctional Officers and Employees Week, this observance pays tribute to the correctional officers and all correctional staff who […]
NABCJ – Oklahoma
Field representative Annie Norman, Volunteer Field Representative Debbie Moore, and Volunteer Marlon Moore proudly represented CPOF at the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice Conference. While there, they were able to meet up with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections Honor Guard Team and present a scholarship on behalf of the event to a […]
Learn more about the CPOF Board of Directors
Correctional Peace Officers Foundation Board of Directors The Correctional Peace Officers Foundation’s board of directors includes 7 individuals with a correctional background and a passion for being there for their brothers and sisters behind the wall and beyond. CPOF was founded in 1984 by 5 correctional officers who wanted to be proactive in assisting correctional […]
The Retirement of Don Dease
Don Dease began his Correctional Career in 1974 as a Recreational Coordinator at MacDougall Youth Institution in South Carolina. From May 1976 through February 1980 he held various positions including Deputy Warden and Administrative Assistant. In February 1980 he was named Warden at Dutchman Correctional Region and promoted to Regional Director in 1983. Don served […]
Chris Isbill with Daviess County Detention Center in Kentucky
Officer Isbill was assigned to supervise an inmate work crew. During their duties, Officer Isbill and the work crew were barely missed by a semi-truck where the driver had lost control as he was approaching a collision that happened just a few minutes earlier. The semi-truck flipped over on its roof and the driver […]
Join Our Family
The Correctional Peace Officers Foundation was founded with the simple goal of “taking care of our own.” It is truly a family that takes care of one another during the hardest moments and celebrates everyone’s happiest times. CPOF is the family that is there to be with you during loss, illness, and helping you and […]
American Jails
The Correctional Peace Officers Foundation is proud to have worked with staff and families of jails across the nation. Please read this article in the American Jails September/October 2024 issue regarding the impact CPOF has been able to have on American Jails by Vice-Chairman Don Dease.
Alexander Correctional Institution – North Carolina
The Alexander Correctional Institution in Taylorsville, North Carolina houses close custody offenders in single cells and minimum-custody offenders in dormitories in a 252-bed minimum-security unit. Sergeant Jennifer Parker and Captain Stephanie Miller wanted to promote awareness for Women working in the Corrections profession. They designed and sold t-shirts and hot dogs to raise $3,696.00! The […]
National Correctional Officers Week
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan issued Proclamation 5187 (see below), declaring the week beginning May 6, 1984, as “National Correctional Officers Week.” This proclamation, “in recognition of the contributions of correctional officers to our nation,” noted that the position of correctional officer “is essential to the day-to-day operations of these institutions [prisons and jails]; without […]
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