Brenda V. Smith is a Professor at the Washington College of Law at American University where she co-teaches in the Community Economic Development Law Clinic. Professor Smith is also the Project Director for the United States Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections Cooperative Agreement on Addressing Staff Sexual Misconduct with Offenders. In November, 2003, Prof. Smith was appointed to the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission by the United States House of Representatives Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi (D. CA). Prior to her faculty appointment at the Washington College of Law, Prof. Smith was the Senior Counsel for Economic Security at the National Women's Law Center and Director of the Center's Women in Prison Project and Child and Family Support Project. Prof. Smith is a 1984 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, and a magna cum laude graduate of Spelman College in 1980.
Prof. Smith is an expert on issues affecting women in prison and has published and spoken widely on those issues. Recent publications include: Battering, Forgiveness and Redemption: Exploring Alternative Models for Addressing Domestic Violence in Communities of Color, in Domestic Violence at the margins : Readings on Race, Class, Gender, and Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2004); Watching You, Watching Me, 15 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 225 ( 2003); Battering, Forgiveness and Redemption, 11 American University Journal of Gender Social Policy and the Law 921, Volume 2 (2003); An End to Silence: Prisoners--Handbook on Identifying and Addressing Sexual Misconduct, (2d Ed., Washington College of Law, 2002); A Sexual Abuse Against Women in Prison, @ American Bar Association Criminal Justice Magazine, Vol. 16. No. 1, Spring, 2001; An End to Silence: Women Prisoners--Handbook on Identifying and Addressing Sexual Misconduct (National Women's Law Center: April, 1998); A Incarceration," in Women's Health Across the Lifespan: A Comprehensive Perspective (Lippincott: 1997); A Vision Beyond Survival: A Resource Guide for Incarcerated Women (National Women's Law Center: Fall, 1995); and Female Prisoners and AIDS: On the Margins of Public Health and Social Justice, 9 AIDS & Public Policy Journal 78 (Summer, 1994).
Prof. Smith has received numerous honors, including the prestigious Kellogg National Fellowship in 1993. Professor Smith was inducted into the D.C. Women's Hall of Fame in 1998 for her work on behalf of low-income women in the District of Columbia. Most recently, Professor Smith was awarded the Emalee C. Godsey Research Award for her article, Battering, Forgiveness and Redemption.
Jaime Yarussi received a dual Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Justice in May of 2001 from American University 's School of Public Affairs . In December of 2003, she earned a Masters of Science from American University 's School of Public Affairs in Justice Law and Society with a specialization in corrections and public policy.
Jaime started as Program Coordinator with the NIC Project at the Washington College of Law in January of 2004 and has helped to accomplish the publication of a handbook for correctional staff on identifying and addressing staff sexual misconduct and the completion of a core curriculum for the project's training program on Addressing Staff Sexual Misconduct with Offenders and is currently working on a publication on state criminal laws prohibiting the sexual abuse of individuals in custody. She also oversees programatic objectives under the NIC/WCL Project.
Jaime's on-hand correctional experience comes from core curricula as a graduate student focusing on work in various correctional facilities and the completion of an internship in the field of community corrections during her master's program. She has been involved with resident supervision, disciplinary hearings, recreational trip supervision, urinalysis collection and testing, as well as treatment and crisis intervention for offenders.
Jaime devotes her spare time to the D.C. Rape Crisis Center where she is a rape crisis counselor for rape and incest survivors through the center's hotline She counsels men and women, children, gay, lesbian, and transgendered members of the community. She is also a counselor for rape victims through the crisis center's S.A.N.E. Program which offers counseling and advice during the hospital visit (where evidence is collected) and through police interviews as well as the legal and court process for a victim.
Aaron Aldrich began his career at the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institution in 1983 as a correctional officer at the high security center. He was promoted through the ranks from correctional officer, investigator, chief investigator, to his current position as Chief Inspector of Internal Affairs.
As Chief Inspector, he and his staff are tasked with the investigation of allegations of misconduct of the Rhode Island prison system's 1100 uniformed correctional staff and civilian employees. The investigations vary in range from off-duty misconduct, use of force, on duty misconduct, and conveyance of contraband.
Aaron also provides weekly training at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections training academy in the areas of crime scene and evidence preservation, sexual misconduct, and hostile toxic work environments.
Darrell Alley retired in December, 2004 concluding a 37 year sworn law enforcement career. His career included service with municipal, county, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. He served constituents in Florida, Virginia, Tennessee, and the National Institute of Corrections. He received his Bachelors Degree from Covenant College (TN), and his Masters Degree from Tusculum College (TN). He is a graduate of the National Crime Prevention Institute, the Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville, and the Tennessee Government Executive Institute at the University of Tennessee. He served as an adjunct faculty member at the Cleveland State Community College (TN), the Cleveland State Law Enforcement Training Center (TN), the Tennessee Correction Academy, and as a training consultant with the National Institute Of Corrections (NIC).
He has served in various capacities as a member of the Exchange Club, Rotary Club, and United Way. He is past Chaplain, Secretary, and Vice President of the National Internal Affairs Investigators Association. He maintains membership in the Fraternal Order of Police, Tennessee Correction Association, American Correctional Association, and other professional organizations.
He and his wife, Laura, have been married for thirty-eight years and have two children and seven grandchildren. He currently serves a criminal justice consultant and full-time Associate Pastor at the River of Life Assembly of God in Smyrna, Tennessee.
Roy Austin graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Political Science and received a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. He is a member of the Illinois and California Bar Associations.
During college and law school, Mr. Austin accrued a wide-range of criminal justice experience. Among other legal jobs, he has been a youth care worker at a youth detention center in central Pennsylvania, an investigator for the Washington, D.C. Public Defender Service, a law clerk for the Chicago Federal Defender Service and a legal assistant at a large D.C. law firm.
Mr. Austin began his career as a lawyer as a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section (“Criminal Section”). Almost immediately upon joining the Criminal Section, Mr. Austin served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia with the Misdemeanor Trial Section. As a Special AUSA, he prosecuted crimes ranging from simple assault to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
During his almost five years with the Criminal Section, Mr. Austin investigated and prosecuted violations of federal criminal civil rights statutes in federal courts across the country. Among his jury trials there, Mr. Austin tried a racially motivated aggravated assault in Tennessee, a cross burning in Illinois, a guard rape of a juvenile inmate in Georgia, a police officer beating of a truck driver in Indiana and a guard shooting of an inmate in California.
In 2000, Mr. Austin joined Keker & Van Nest LLP in San Francisco, California as an associate where he participated in a variety of complex civil and white-collar criminal cases. He worked extensively on a pro-bono lawsuit regarding racial profiling by the California Highway Patrol which resulted in a successful settlement.
In 2002, Mr. Austin returned to the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office where he is now a Senior AUSA in the Fraud and Public Corruption Section. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Austin was a Senior AUSA in the Sex Offense/Domestic Violence Section where he was responsible for the investigation and prosecution of domestic homicide, sexual assault, child sexual assault and child prostitution cases.
Over his career, Mr. Austin has tried more than 25 jury trials.
Angela Browne joined RTI’s Crime, Violence, and Justice Research Program (CVJ) in 2006. Previously she was Associate Director of the CDC-funded Harvard Injury Control Research Center and the Youth Violence Prevention Center at Harvard’s School of Public Health. Dr. Browne is internationally known for her work on interpersonal violence and violence against women, long-term effects of trauma, pathways to offending, incarceration in the United States, national homicide trends, and implications of trauma histories for intervention, prevention, and detention. Since 1988 she has consulted with maximum security prisons for women and juvenile justice, as well as with state and government agencies. Dr. Browne’s current work focuses on youth violence and homicide, incarceration, and trauma-informed interventions for juveniles and adults.
Susan Carle is an Associate Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law, where she teaches torts, labor and employment law, legal ethics, and externship seminars. Prior to joining the faculty in 1997, Prof. Carle practiced law in the areas of labor and employment, primarily representing employees and labor unions. Prior to that, she worked for two years for the United States Department of Justice arguing appeals in cases arising under federal anti-discrimination laws covering employment and other issues. She graduated from Yale Law School in 1988 and clerked for the Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1988-1989.
Deborah Connor graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, Cum Laude in 1994. Following graduation from law school she worked in private practice for two years before joining the Department of Justice Antitrust Division in 1997. She eventually joined the United States Attorneys Officefor the District of Columbia in1999 and has been working primarily with the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Unit of this office for over 5 years. Ms. Connor prosecutes sexual assaults, involving both adults and children, and has tried over 25 cases involving sexual assaults, in both bench and jury trials. Most recently, AUSA Connor obtained a successful conviction following a three day jury trial in D.C. Superior Court,in the case of United States v. Robert White, involving the sexual assault of a maleinmate by a corrections officer employed at the Central Treatment Facility here in the District of Columbia.
Robert W. Dumond is a board certified (NBCC) and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (MA & NH) and a Diplomate of Clinical Forensic Counseling who has served in a number of criminal justice venues since 1970, most notably as Director - Victim/Witness Assistance with the Essex County (MA) District Attorney’s Office and as Psychologist III/Mental Health Administrator and most recently as Director – Research & Planning Division within the Massachusetts Department of Correction. He currently serves as President of Consultants for Improved Human Services, PLLC, where he continues to be a consultant on prisoner rape to several federal agencies. As a consultant to the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, he is drafting the mental health standards for adoption nationally. He also has provided consultation to the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and has been a consultant to the several subgrantees of BJA PREA grants.
Dan Dunne spent thirty years of his career with the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), and has served as a national spokesman for the largest correctional agency in the country. His public and media relations expertise in the corrections field has been recognized as playing a key role in the BOP's ability to successfully meet its unique public and media relations challenges during a very important time in its history.
When the media came calling, Dan served as the Federal Government's face and voice before a national audience addressing a wide variety of issues to include the agency's budget, inmate programs and services, and conditions-of-confinement for Federal inmates. Additionally, Dan routinely responded to media requests related to many high-profile cases (e.g., television and multimillionaire business woman - Martha Stewart); and, a myriad of ad hoc issues related to significant events at BOP institutions (e.g., assaults, escape attempts, hostage situations, food strikes, gang issues, suicides, inmate unrest).
Two notable news events where Dan played a central role in developing and implementing comprehensive media strategies to address an international media onslaught included the 1991 Federal Correctional Institution (FCI), Talladega, Alabama, hostage crisis involving Cuban detainees, and the 2001 execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh - the BOP's first execution in over 35 years.
Following his retirement in February 2005, Dan created his own Public and Media Relations business - DRD Training and Communications. In this role, he continues to teach Public and Media Relations and Crisis Communications training classes for various business and government agencies, including the National Institute of Corrections. Additionally, in partnership with Lawrence Ragan Communications http://www.ragan.com, he develops a free monthly eNewsletter titled the "Government Communicators Insider." This eNewletter has become a principal resource for government communicators looking to learn important public andmedia relations principals and practices.
Dan has served on the American Correctional Association's Public Information Committee and is a current member of the Prince George's County (Maryland)Public Relations Association.
Karen M. Giannkoulis has worked for over nineteen (19) years in criminal/civil investigations. She started her career in law enforcement in 1985 with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington DC where she was in charge of patrolling neighborhoods within the boundaries of the District of Columbia. Her duties included but were not limited to the apprehension and processing of criminal suspects, completion and investigation of incident and criminal police reports, testifying during proceedings, trials and preventing crimes.
Karen became an undercover investigator where she participated in c overt investigations for the purpose of prostitution, gambling, narcotics, intelligence, child pornography and organized crime. She then moved to the sex offenses unit of the Metropolitan Police Department where she was responsible for the management and investigation of all adolescent and adult sexual abuse allegations. Those duties and responsibilities included conducting forensic interviews, interviewing targets and witnesses, preparing search and arrest warrants, surveillance, and presenting cases to the U.S. Attorney's Office and Office of the Attorney General for civil/criminal merit.
Karen moved to the Office of Professional Responsibility/ Office of Internal Affairs where she was accountable for conducting criminal, civil and administrative investigations involving allegations of misconduct and corruption of Metropolitan Police Department (sworn and civilian) personnel and District of Columbia Government employees. Her duties and responsibilities included interviewing complainants and the targets of the investigations, preparing investigative memorandums, search warrants and police reports, surveillance, and presenting cases to the U.S. Attorney's Office and Office of the Attorney General for criminal merit.
Karen has also provided training to other law enforcement agencies, school personnel, community organizations, parents and children and also worked on assessing children and adults for medical, psychological, and human service issues. Karen was the first police officer co-located to the Children's Advocacy Center where she helped develop interview protocols and assist in the development of the Children's Advocacy Center for the District of Columbia. During this time Karen was in charge of conducting adolescent forensic interviews and being a liaison for the Metropolitan Police Department and DC Public School Officials.
Currently, Karen works for the United States Attorney's Office in the Victim Witness Assistance Unit as a Child Interview Specialist/Advocate. Her responsibilities include forensic interviewing and assessment of children from two to seventeen years old and adults with special needs, who are alleged to be victims of or who have witnessed a crime; assisting with the development of multi disciplinary interviewing protocols that are utilized by multiple agencies, including the Metropolitan Police Department, for child victim/witnesses; provide training to prosecutors and local government agencies in the areas of forensic interviewing, offender dynamics, family dynamics and child development; and participating and providing consultation in multi disciplinary case review sessions to assist law enforcement, prosecution, social service, and mental health professionals to determine appropriate forensic and clinical interventions to children who are victims/witnesses of a crime. She is also responsible for case management for the purpose of judicial prosecution; conducting the "Kids Court" program to prepare child victim/witnesses for their future judicial proceedings; and is a participant in "Project Lead," which is a criminal prevention and awareness agenda for fifth graders in the DC public School system.
Julie A. Grohovsky was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia from 1991 to 2001. During her time as an AUSA, Ms. Grohovsky specialized in prosecuting sexual assault cases. In 1998, Ms. Grohovsky was awarded an Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy and spent ten months studying how sex crimes are investigated and prosecuted in the UK. From 2001 to 2004, Ms. Grohovsky served as an Attorney Advisor in the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Justice. Ms. Grohovsky is a member of the Adjunct Faculty at the American University Washington College of Law. She has taught Advanced Criminal Procedure and in the fall of 2005 will be teaching a new seminar entitled, "Investigating, Prosecuting and Defending Sexual Assault Cases." Ms. Grohovsky has lectured extensively here and in the UK on the issues of sexual abuse, domestic violence, victims' rights and children as witnesses. Ms. Grohovsky also serves on the Advisory Board for the Child Assessment Center in Montgomery County, Maryland which helps children who are the victims of sexual and/or physical abuse as their cases go
through the court system.
Karyn Hadfield has been the Training Specialist at Day One: The Sexual Assault & Trauma Resource Center of Rhode Island since November 2004. Karyn currently directs Day One’s contract to provide education and training on PREA to the staff and inmates at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. She is also the project director of several federal grants to provide training to criminal justice professionals and treatment providers on both adult and juvenile sex offender management, and a Department of Justice/Office on Violence Against Women Education Grant to End Violence Against Women with Disabilities.
Dee
Halley was involved in local corrections for 17 years through the Sheriff's Department in Boulder County, Colorado. During this time she served as a correctional officer, accreditation manager, transition coordinator, work release coordinator, and classification supervisor. From 1981 through 1986, Dee served as the NIC Area Resource Center Grant Coordinator. Working with the NIC Jails Division, she provided a number of training and consultant services in the areas of policy and procedures development, accreditation, staffing, legal issues, basic detention officer training, and jail planning and design.
In May of 1990, she began work as a Correctional Program Specialist for the NIC Jails Division. The majority of her work involved coordination of the Facility Development Program. This included: managing the Planning on New Institutions (PONI) and Jail Design Review programs, conducting reviews of proposed jail plans, and acting as the liaison to the American Institute of Architect's Committee on Architecture for Justice. While at the Jails Division she also coordinated technical assistance and training for agencies in the areas of accreditation, jail staffing, jail administration, and the Americans With Disabilities Act.
In August of 1994 Dee transferred to the NIC Academy Division. Her responsibilities included coordination and training delivery for training programs addressing planning of new institutions for juvenile facilities, managing change, evaluation strategies, inter-personal communications, and correctional boot camp design and implementation. Dee has also administered technical assistance awards and served for four years as the Southern Region Coordinator for the Academy's Regionalization Project.
Her primary focus while at the Academy was correctional management and leadership training. This included coordination of the Correctional Leadership Development (CLD) and Management Development for the Future programs. To help enhance the delivery of these programs, she has been qualified to administer both the Benchmarks leadership assessment and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Dee also managed the Correctional Core Competency Model project and began its incorporation into the CLD program.
In March of 2002, Dee transferred to the NIC Special Projects Division. Her projects have included coordinating the Planning of New Institutions for Juvenile Facilities and Juvenile Transition and Activation Process programs, the Native American and Alaskan Technical Assistance Project (NAATAP), and the Staff Sexual Misconduct Initiative. In late 2003 she was assigned to coordinate the Institute's activities under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA).
Madeleine LaMarre recently retired as the Clinical Services Manager for the Georgia Department of Corrections where she was responsible for developing health care policy, clinical protocols, and monitoring the quality of health care in the Georgia Prison system. She worked for the Department since 1984 and was involved in addressing public health concerns such as HIV infection, tuberculosis, and most recently, hepatitis C.
Madie is a nationally recognized correctional consultant focusing on improving health care delivery systems. Her 20 years of experience make her a valuable expert witness in litigation involving correctional facilities. She recently served as associate editor and contributor for Clinical Practice in Correctional Medicine, a medical textbook co-edited by Michael Puisis, M.D., published in 2006. Ms. LaMarre is active in numerous professional organizations often presenting critical clinical updates impacting correctional health care. She will serve as a subject matter expert to The Moss Group in identifying the critical medical protocol concerns in addressing prison rape. Her relationship and reputation with both the correctional health care community and the public health community will serve as a valuable resource and liaison in the development of the medical concerns raised in the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
She received her Bachelor in Nursing from Russell Sage College in New York and her Master of Nursing from Emory University in Atlanta. She is certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner.
Susan W. McCampbell is President of the Center for Innovative Public Policies, Inc., (CIPP) a not-for-profit company specializing in public policy consulting.
CIPP currently has several cooperative agreements with the National Institute of Corrections (NIC): to develop curricula to effectively manage a multi-generational workforce; to provide technical assistance to state and local correctional agencies regarding the issues associated with staff sexual misconduct with inmates; and to develop a bulletin on gender responsive jail operations for the administrators of small and medium sized jails.
Ms. McCampbell is the co-author of Training Curriculum for Investigating Allegations of Staff Sexual Misconduct with Inmates, Staff Sexual Misconduct with Inmates: Implications for Jail Administrators, Investigating Allegations of Staff Sexual Misconduct in a Jail Setting, and Staff Sexual Misconduct with Inmates: a Policy Development Guide for Sheriffs and Jail Administrators for the National Institute of Corrections (NIC). She also instructs in NIC programs addressing staff sexual misconduct. In February 2002, NIC published the Resource Guide for Newly Appointed Wardens, co-authored by Ms. McCampbell, Elizabeth Layman and Marie Hall. She has also co-authored articles about staff sexual misconduct for American Jails and Sheriffs magazines.
Prior to founding CIPP in 1999, Ms. McCampbell was the Director of the Department of Detention and Community Control for the Broward County, Florida, Sheriff's Office for four (4) years. During this time, Ms. McCampbell oversaw the daily operations of a jail system with 4,200 inmates, three facilities, a staff of 1,600, and a budget of $110 million. During her tenure, the agency received their initial accreditation from the American Correctional Association, and re-accreditation, the largest agency of its kind to receive simultaneous accreditation for all facilities. Other highlights of her term as Director include implementation of an objective inmate classification system, dramatic improvements in the management and treatment of inmates with a diagnosis of mental illness in the jail system, the planning for a new 1,000 bed men's direct supervision facility, and a 1,000 bed women's jail. While with the Broward Sheriff's Office, Ms. McCampbell served as Chief Deputy/Acting Sheriff for six (6) months following the death of the Sheriff.
Prior to coming to Broward County, Ms. McCampbell was Assistant Sheriff for the City of Alexandria, Virginia, Sheriff's Office for eleven (11)years, a Program Director for Police Executive Research Forum in Washington, D. C., and a regional criminal justice planner in Northern Virginia.
Marianne McNabb has held a variety of executive level positions in both the Washington and Alaska Department of Corrections. As a former Regional Administrator and Assistant Director of Community Corrections in Washington State, and a Deputy Director of Institutions and Community Corrections, in Alaska, she has experience in many areas of corrections and an appreciation for the complexity of the field.
Trained as an assessment team member under the National Institute of Corrections Institutional Culture Initiative as well as having done socio-economic research in the Arctic, Ms McNabb has a well-grounded understanding of culture change as well as the National Institute of Corrections multiple strategies addressing culture.
Ms McNabb is a private consultant and principal in the Social Research Institute and is involved in a variety of projects nation-wide. She currently works with The Moss Group, Inc, in a cooperative agreement with NIC to provide planning and strategic activities to assist with implementation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003. She has a Master's degree in Sociology.
Mary Pinn has been a registered Nurse for 46 years. She earned her degree from Freedmen’s Hospital/ Howard University Hospital in 1956-1960 with a diploma in nursing. She received her BSN from the University of the District of Columbia in 1986.
Nurse Pinn retired in 1990 after being the Assistant Director of Nursing-DC General Hospital. She is married with three children (35-48 years of age) and four grandchildren (6-21 years of age).
After retirement Ms. Pinn has been the Nurse Manager in Long Term Nursing, Director of Nursing PG Hospital Long Term Care Facility, Supervisor of Nursing DC General Hospital , Supervisor of Nursing Howard University Hospital, SANE training at Howard University Hospital 2003, Nurse Consultant and Clinical Instructor.
Nurse Pinn is currently the Interim Director of SANE-Howard University Hospital.
Susan E. Poole is a retired warden and is currently working extensively as a Criminal Justice Consultant, providing direct services to agencies in the areas of Staff Sexual Misconduct with Inmates, Working with Female Offenders, Institution Culture Assessment, Strategic Planning, and Executive Leadership Development for Women. Appointed to the position of Warden by the Governor of the state of California in September 1988, Ms. Poole served 13 years at the California Institution for Women in that capacity.
Ms. Poole's background includes 29 years in the field of Corrections with the California Department of Corrections (CDC). She began her career as a Teaching Assistant and was promoted through the custody ranks. She served at two correctional institutions and with three divisions in headquarters: Institutions, Administrative Services, and Manpower Services. Her experience and assignments have included a wide variety of field operations and staff assignments in Corrections' headquarters. While in CDC headquarters, she served in the capacity of Assistant Chief of Personnel, Classification Staff Representative, Chief of Institution Services, and Assistant Deputy Director Institutions Division. For the last thirteen years of her career in Corrections she served as Warden of the California Institution for Women (CIW). CIW is a 1,800 bed correctional facility which at one point reached a capacity of 2700 inmates.
Ms. Poole is a member of the American Correctional Association (ACA), the Association of Black Correctional Workers (ABCW), the Association of Women Executives in Corrections, and the National Association of Blacks In Criminal Justice. She chaired the Department's Training Advisory Committee for five and one-half years. In addition, Ms. Poole was selected as one of the Outstanding Young Women of America for 1983 and participated in the 1995 Leadership California Program. She has served as an appointed board member of the Mt. Baldy United Way, and Opportunities Unlimited, Inc., a youth outreach program. She was selected as California's nominee for Warden of the Year to the North American Association of Wardens and Superintendents in 1999. Ms. Poole has received numerous awards and recognition for her work in the community. She has provided consultant services to the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), to correctional agencies in a number of other states, and is a featured speaker at many community and academic programs. She has recently been selected by the Who's Who Historical Society as a member of their International Who's Who of Professionals for 2001.
James Radford is currently the deputy director of Our Place DC, an organization that works with incarcerated or formerly incarcerated women.Formerly, he worked as a staff attorney for the Legal Aid society where he represented individuals who violated their parole at administrative hearings. Additionally, Mr. Radford worked as a Harm Reduction Coordinator for AIDS Care Ocean State and designed and implemented a new needle exchange program in Rhode Island. He worked with the state Department of Health to affect legislative change regarding harm reduction issues and developed innovative education and preventative oriented street outreach program for high-risk youth.
Ronald K. Reid is an 18 year sworn law enforcement veteran currently serving for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. He serves as a detective in the Sex Offender Registry Unit. In addition he served as an adjunct faculty member at the Maurice T. Turner Institute of Police Science in Washington, D.C. as well as a training consultant with the National Institute of Corrections (NIC).
Prior to serving in the Sex Offender Registry, Detective Reid spent 10 years with the Sex Offense Branch, where he was the lead or assisting investigator in hundreds of cases involving the sexual abuse of adults and children. These are some of the most difficult cases handled by MPD. They often involve traumatized victims and witnesses who have been sexually abused by family members or friends. Other cases have involved serial rapists and child molesters who would continue to terrorize the community until they were stopped. In particular, Detective Reid has developed an expertise in gathering and assessing forensic and medical evidence in sexual abuse cases. Detective Reid has extensive training in interviewing techniques for child victims and has worked closely with the Child Advocacy Center, which is the entry point for many child sexual abuse victims. He also has significant training in the interrogation of suspects and has obtained confessions in many sexual abuse and violent crime cases.
While working as a detective for the Metropolitan Police Department, Detective Reid has provided training in the field of Sexual Abuse to the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, D.C. Public Health Service, D.C. Public Schools, Community groups, and various organizations throughout the Metropolitan area. He has also lectured for various Law enforcement agencies in the field of Adult and Child Sexual abuse, Crime scene Management, and Interviewing Victims and Offenders. He also consulted in the organizing of the (80 hours) Sexual Assault Training Program at the Institute of Police Science in Washington, D.C. for detectives. Furthermore, he has designed and instructs a 4 hour First responder's course at the Maurice T Turner Institute of Police Science in Washington, D.C. In 2004, Detective Reid worked with Police Advocates to co-produce a training video designed for law enforcement first responders, titled First Responder Video for Sexual Assault. In 2003, detective Reid received his instructor certification from The Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commission.
Moreover, Detective Reid has represented Metropolitan Police Department on many multidisciplinary working groups and task forces to ensure that the police department was appropriately represented and that their policies were made an integral part of the group's efforts. As an example, he represented MPD in developing the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) Program at Howard University Hospital, which provides a safe, forensically sound medical facility to examine sexual assault victims and gather evidence. Also, he participated on the Derek McGinty Talk Radio show in 1997 discussing sexual assaults in the District of Columbia. Not only has he become an efficient trainer, he has received numerous commendations and awards for his expertise in this field. Detective Reid is proud to be the recipient of the Department of Justice Award for his work with the victim of an extremely violent rapist who was brought to justice as well as an award from the Department of Justice for his work with victims of sexual assault.
He and his wife, Grisel, have been married for ten years and have one child, Naomi, a dog Max and a big fluffy cat, Flash.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBER AFFILIATIONS: American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.
A.J. Sabree is Director of Reentry Services for the Georgia Department of Corrections and has 31 years of criminal justice experience. He has served as a Clinical Chaplain for the Georgia Department of Corrections, Atlanta Police Department, Grady Memorial Hospital, Georgia Association of Police Chiefs, Georgia Emergency Management Administration, and the “1996” Centennial Olympic.
Tim Thrasher began his career with the Washington State Department of Corrections in 1995 as a Correctional Officer at the Washington State Reformatory. He promoted through the ranks as Investigator, Chief Investigator and is currently an Investigator / Correctional Program Manager in the Headquarters Special Investigations Unit.
Melissa Turner is a clinical social worker with over fifteen years of clinical experience working with various populations. In Albany, New York, she began her professional career in an alternative sentencing program that advocated in the criminal courts for treatment oriented dispositions rather than incarceration. At the Washington VA Medical Center where she has worked for 11 years, Melissa has specialized in the psychosocial care and treatment of veterans with HIV/AIDS many of whom have a history of post traumatic stress disorder, sexual trauma, mental illness and addiction. As a private mental health consultant, Melissa has focused on women's issues and has facilitated psycho-educational groups for mandated clients in residential drug treatment. She is known for incorporating nontraditional expressive therapies such as meditation, aromatherapy, music, poetry, art and other techniques, into the traditional psychotherapeutic group setting. At Our Place, DC, an agency dedicated to assisting incarcerated women with reentering the community, Melissa is the clinical social work consultant and provides therapeutic intervention to formerly incarcerated women. Melissa received her Master of Social Work degree from the State University of New York at Albany, New York and lives in Washington, DC.
A.T. Wall began his career in Corrections in 1976 as a line Probation officer. He served in the capacity of Assistant Director for the Rhode Island Department of Corrections from 1987 through 1999. Mr. Wall was appointed Director of the Department in 2000. He holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from Yale University.
Janet Warren is Professor of Clinical Psychiatric Medicine and Associate Director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. She is the University of Virginia liaison to the Behavioral Sciences Unit of the FBI and oversees the research collaboration that the Institute has recently established with the three profiling units of the FBI offering operational support on cases of terrorism, serial murder, and child abduction and murder. Dr. Warren has received research grants from the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services, and has collaborated for many years with the Behavioral Sciences Unit of the FBI on their research regarding serial rapists, sexual sadists and serial killers.
