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James (Jimmy) LeBlanc
was selected by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal to succeed
Richard Stalder as secretary of the Louisiana Department of
Public Safety and Corrections. LeBlanc served as warden of
the Dixon Correctional Institute since 1995.
Walter A. McNeil
was promoted in January by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist to
head the Department of Corrections, reported the Miami
Herald. McNeil just completed his first year as
secretary of the Department of Juvenile Justice and is a
former Tallahassee police chief. Florida Rep.
Frank Peterman Jr. was
appointed as the new secretary of the juvenile justice
department.
John D. Rees
retired as commissioner of the Kentucky Department of
Corrections on Jan. 31. He served in that position since
2004. Gov. Steve Beshear named
LaDonna H. Thompson as the new commissioner.
Prior to this appointment, Thompson served as deputy
commissioner.
Howard N. Snyder,
Ph.D., resigned from his position at the National Center for
Juvenile Justice, the Pittsburgh-based research division of
the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ),
on Jan. 31. Snyder worked for NCJFCJ for 27 years, writing
landmark reports and developing Web-based data analysis and
dissemination tools that are accessed by millions of users
each year.
Clay N. Whittle,
sheriff of Columbia County, Ga., was awarded the National
Sheriffs’ Association (NSA) Triple Crown Award in January
2008 at NSA’s Winter Conference in New Orleans. As is the
criteria for the award, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office
holds simultaneous accreditation from ACA’s Commission on
Accreditation for Corrections (CAC), the Commission on
Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) and the
National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC). The
agency attained this goal in August 2007 when they were
awarded the CAC accreditation. Whittle is one of only 28
sheriffs to have received this award.
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Help
NIC Improve Its Services
To better serve the corrections field,
the National Institute of Corrections is
conducting a general needs assessment.
One component of this project will be an
online survey. Results will be compiled,
analyzed and used to guide NIC’s
decisions regarding services, program
content and delivery strategies. Your
input will help identify issues of
importance to correctional agencies,
correctional practitioners, and
ultimately, the offenders and
communities they serve. We know your
schedules are busy and time is a scarce
resource. However, we are hoping you can
allot about 15 minutes to complete the
survey. It would be greatly appreciated.
You can access the
survey by going to the NIC Web site at
www.nicic.org
or directly by
going to
http://nicic.org/NA08.
Questions about
the needs assessment or online survey
can be directed to Dee Halley at (202)
514-0374;
halley@bop.gov
or Larry Linke at
(303) 365-4428;
llinke@nicic.org.
If you experience problems completing
the survey, contact Joshua Stengel at
(303) 365-4432;
jstengel@nicic.org.
On behalf of NIC, thank you for your
participation.
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