Category: News
Gracie O’Hare – Scholarship Recipient
Gracie O’Hare sent in this great photo and email thanking CPOF for her scholarship award! Congratulations Gracie and best wishes for continued success in your education! Thank you very much for this scholarship! I appreciate the help this organization has given me towards furthering my education.
Ella Sockman
CPOF is proud to offer scholarships to Correctional Staff and their families each year. In the coming weeks we will share more about how the scholarship program started and some of this years beneficiaries. Today, meet Ella Sockman. If you think that young man posing with her looks familiar, you’re probably right! Ella […]
CPOF National Pipe Band
The Correctional Peace Officers Foundation’s National Honor Guard is complimented by our very own National Pipe Band. The Pipe Band is led by Pipe Major Bob Hanley of New York and is a highlight of our PROJECT 2000 event each year. Bob is joined by (left to right) Buddy Rein, Rich Denninger, John Haskel, Greg […]
Lora Hodges – Michigan Honor Guard
Laura Hodges shares what it means to her and her team to attend PROJECT 2000 each year as part of their honor guard team.
The National Honor Guard and Pipe Band
One of the highlights for many at PROJECT 2000 is the pageantry of the National Honor Guard and the performances led by the CPOF Pipe Band. Both interact with one another so flawlessly that you’d think they’d been doing it since the beginning of time. Gil Arizmendi, the bugler for the National Honor Guard Team, […]
Scholarship Awards
Congratulations to all of those awarded CPOF Scholarships for 2023. Your scholarship checks are on their way. On behalf of CPOF and our Board of Directors, congratulations! We are proud of you!
Postal Inspector Supervisor Joyce Liddell
In March of 2023, tornados swept through Mississippi and Louisiana and caused unprecedented destruction. Correctional Peace Officers Foundation’s field representative Vanessa Lee was there for those affected and shared her experience after meeting with many affected by the 64 seconds of destruction. Postal Inspector Supervisor Joyce Liddell of Central MS Correctional Facility was deeply affected […]
Marion Correctional Institution
On April 26, 2017, Correctional Sgt. Meggan Callahan at Bertie Correctional Institution responded to a trash can fire in the cell block. After Sgt. Callahan extinguished the fire using a fire extinguisher, the inmate who set the fire, ambushed her. She had wrote a disciplinary report for him about 30 minutes prior. He continued with […]
Avery Mitchell Correctional Facility
Warden Bret Bullis of Avery Mitchell Correctional was working at Mountain View Correctional in 2012 when Officer William Wright lost his life after a fall at work. Warden Bullis was introduced to CPOF when they stepped up to be there for the family of that officer. Warden Bullis was inspired to become a supporting member […]
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