American Correctional Officer

Resolutions:
Anti-Prison Privatization

REPORTS:

New Labor Laws Report NCI Juvy Training Programs 2007 NCJRS Officer Down Alarms Pew Report Prison Projections

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American Correctional Officer is a national coalition of organizations, fraternal associations and unions whose members include publicly employed correctional officers and corrections professionals.
The mission and purpose of American Correctional Officer is to promote the well being and safety of publicly employed Correctional Officers and corrections professionals; to improve the working conditions for all who work in public corrections; to share best practices so that all can benefit; to educate the media, general public and our elected officials about the daily challenges we face; to seek progressive change to meet those challenges; to provide information, research and mutual support for all associations, unions and fraternal organizations who count corrections professionals among their members; to establish an international communications network among corrections professionals; to provide a national voice for our profession and to continue to protect the public by working to ensure that our nations prisons, jails and juvenile justice facilities are safe and secure.
American Correctional Officer is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the corrections profession. It is run for and by correctional officers working in our local, county, state, federal and juvenile correctional facilities.