Oklahoma State Prison – 1914
Before Oklahoma became a state in 1907, felons convicted in the Oklahoma Territory were sent to the Kansas State Penitentiary located in Lansing, Kansas. Upon statehood, Kate Barnard became the Oklahoma Commissioner of Charities and Corrections. She first visited the Kansas prison during the summer of 1908 after many Oklahoma inmates had began […]
Videos from PROJECT 2000 XXXIV
Please follow the links below to watch the livestream footage from PROJECT 2000 XXXIV in St. Louis, MO. Thursday, June 15 at 6:30 p.m. (CDT) – Welcome Dinner Friday, June 16 at 10:00 a.m. (CDT)- Memorial Service Friday, June 16 at 12:00 p.m. (CDT) – Memorial Luncheon Saturday, June 17 […]
PROJECT 2000 XXXV
Since 1990, the CPOF has hosted PROJECT 2000, an annual four-day gathering for correctional officers and families. Each gathering recognizes those men and women in the corrections profession who lost their lives in the line of duty the preceding year. PROJECT 2000 started as a way to honor Correctional Staff killed in the line […]
Sergeant Joshua Caudell – EOW: February 28, 2022
On February 28, 2022, deputies with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence of a known felon, on state-supervised probation, to perform a welfare check, after reports of a woman who was being held against her will. When the deputies arrived at the residence, shots were fired from inside the home. After a […]
Correctional Officer III Helen Smith – EOW: February 3, 2022
While responding to a disturbance in a dorm, Correctional Officer III Helen Smith of Pasquotank Correctional Institution, encountered an inmate who was trying to exit the dorm while surrounded by several other inmates. Officer Smith radioed for the slider door to open, and pulled the inmate out of the dorm. He became combative and struggled […]
Massachusetts State Farm in Bridgewater
Correctional Officer Franklin Weston, Correctional Officer George Landry, and Correctional Officer Howard Murphy were stabbed to death at the Massachusetts State Farm in Bridgewater. The three officers were working in the Department of Defective Delinquents section of the farm at the time. Officer Weston had gone with two inmates to carpentry and shoe shop to […]
Detention Sergeant Russell Jones
Detention Sergeant Russell Jones, 36, lost his life in the line of duty after suffering a medical emergency in the Detention Center on Wednesday, Dec. 6, according to the Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office. On Dec. 6, Detention Sergeant Russell Jones was trying to subdue an inmate when he was punched in the face, ODMP […]
A few words from our Honor Guard Commander
“On Saturday, while traveling home after laying another Correctional Officer to rest in North Carolina, I had an opportunity to reflect on what the Honor Guard’s duty is to Corrections. In just two months time we have honored the lives of 2 Correctional Officers, 1 Parole Officer and 1 Detention Sergeant from different states who […]
Safe Travels to North Carolina
We would like to wish safe travels to the CPOF National Honor Guard Team, Board of Directors, staff and field representatives as they make their way to the funeral of Detention Sergeant Russell Jones, a detention officer with the Pamlico County Sheriff’s Office. Jones, 36, worked as a detention officer with the sheriff’s office […]
Sergeant Demetria Callends – Georgia Department of Corrections
In May of 2023, Sergeant Demetria Callends with the Georgia Department of Corrections lost her house in a fire. While her and her two sons were able to escape without injury, they lost everything in the fire. While the Red Cross was able to find shelter for Sergeant Callends family, CPOF was there to […]
CPO Family Magazine
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Fallen But Not Forgotten
View the stories of our brothers and sisters who sacrificed their lives while fulfilling the duties of their chosen profession.
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