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Hurricane Helene – Florida

CPOF’s first goal during a National Disaster is ensuring that correctional staff are safe. We do everything we can to provide catastrophic assistance to correctional staff as soon as humanely possible. Please check out some of the photos of staff receiving assistance checks, their letters and their thoughts.  If you are in need of assistance […]

Correctional Officer V Latoya Turner – TDCJ

Correctional Officer V Latoya Turner’s husband was severely burned in September. He was hospitalized over 100 miles away and needed to undergo multiple surgeries as a part of his recovery. CPOF was able to assist with medical travel expenses. Officer Turner is from TDCJ’s Boyd Unit.   L2R:  Boyd Unit check presentation 10/22/24 | Warden […]

TDCJ Polunsky Unit | ISS – III Brandi Matthews

ISS – III Brandi Matthews husband Wayne had been admitted to the ICU with a diagnosis of end stage renal failure. When he became ill, he was shipped to several hospitals within a few months time. Mrs. Matthews was out of work so she could be there with her husband. The ICU he was admitted […]

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 […]

Escambia County, Florida

Registered Nurse Tracey Michelle Boykins of Escambia County was born to the union of the late Paul E. Boykins Sr. and Helen M. Watts Boykins in Rochester, New York on November 1, 1970. She finished her earthly life and exchanged it for life eternal on Tuesday, August 13, 2024, at the age of 53. Tracey […]

Region III – Texas

Senior Mental Health Manager Monica Greer’s 18-year-old son Bryan, passed away on September 1, 2024, in a motorcycle accident.   Bryan was born January 8, 2006, to Berry Greer and Monica Greer in Sugarland, TX. He passed away September 1, 2024, in Houston, TX surrounded by the love of his parents. His family moved to […]

FCC Hazelton – West Virginia

Correctional Officer Adam Kerns of FCC Hazelton passed away on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, at his home. Adam was born on May 29, 1980, in Morgantown, WV and was the son of Gerald “Gerry” Kerns and Rose (Blosser) Kerns. Adam was preceded in death by his brother, Gerald “Junior” L. Kerns, Jr., and half-brother, William […]

Charles and Doris Farquhar – EOW: October 23, 1994

  In 1994 Charles Farquhar was the oldest warden in Alabama and had been with the department for 38 years. His wife, Doris, worked for the corrections department since 1972 as a clerk.   On October 23, 1994, 74-year-old Farquhar was murdered on the grounds, along with his wife Doris and two trustees. A 27-year-old inmate […]

Clerk Rhonda Osborne – EOW: October 21, 2004

Rhonda Lynn Osborne of Karnes City, Texas, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2004, at the age of 33 years, 2 months, and 4 days. She was born on Aug 17, 1971, in Columbus, Ga., to Meredith Spikes Dworaczyk and Thomas L. Dworaczyk Jr. She worked for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in administrative […]

Hurricane Helene

The devastation that has hit North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama has been beyond words. The Catastrophic Assistance Program coordinators are hard at work doing everything they can to help as many people as quickly as possible.  Due to the large need created by Hurricane Helene, we are unable to accept applications […]

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