Download Camille G. Camp's CJI Resume.

Ms. Camp is a principal of the Criminal Justice Institute, with a career in corrections that spans thirty-three years. Serving her well throughout her career is an education that consists of a B.A. in English, Sociology and Education, an M.A. in Counseling Psychology and the completion of all qualifications and coursework as a candidate for a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology with a cognate in Criminal Justice.

As a consultant to state and local correctional systems she has directed major national projects for the federal government such as 1) the extent of prison gangs in the U.S., 2) management of gang violence, 3) resolution of prison riots, 4) recruitment and retention of a correctional workforce, 5) management of prison crowding, 6) the privatization of corrections in the U.S., 7) contracting for correctional services, as well as national conferences on substance abuse, violent offenders, privatization, truth-in-sentencing and juvenile correctional issues. She has held a series of training programs on gangs, prison industries and correctional contracting at the National Training Academy in Colorado and has taught the nature and management of prison gangs at the FBI training academy in Glencoe, Georgia. Other consulting skills include development of policies and procedures, organizational and staffing analyses, management and operational assessment, and development of statewide management information systems projects. Her projects have resulted in reports, publications, multi-media products and books that have been invaluable to the field of corrections. She is also the co-author of the Corrections Yearbook, which has been published annually since 1981.

The skills she brings to this project have been drawn from line operational and administrative correctional experience in South Carolina and Arizona from 1970 to 1981 and in Philadelphia County from 1991 to 1997. She served in S.C.'s Department of Youth Services as counselor, social worker, Unit Supervisor of the male adolescent maximum security facility, and Director of Social Work Services for the Intensive Care Units. In S.C.'s adult agency she was Warden of the S.C. men's Maximum Security Center. In Arizona she was responsible for the adult division of the Arizona Department of Corrections. In Philadelphia County, she took operational and administrative responsibility for restructuring and reengineering the prison system by creating and implementing its body of policies and procedures, developing and building two new prisons, creating and implementing a management information system and developing a constructive prison culture throughout the process.

Ms. Camp is currently leading a project funded by the National Institute of Corrections to analyze and rewrite NIC's manual on staffing of mental health facilities, medical facilities, and female facilities.

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Download George Camp's CJI Resume.

George M. Camp has over 40 years experience in correctional management and consulting. He served the public sector from 1962 to 1977 in a variety of positions that included Director of the Missouri Department of Corrections, First Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, Assistant Commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction, Associate Warden of the Federal Correctional Institution at Lompoc, CA and the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, IL, and Program Analyst in the Central Office of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

While serving as the Director of the Missouri Department of Corrections, among other accomplishments, he led and implemented an agency wide strategic planning process (American Management Association model).

He has conducted and directed operational audits, needs assessments, management studies, and strategic planning efforts, throughout the country. Among others, that work has been done for the Philadelphia Prison System, where an operational audit of all its facilities was conducted, using Pennsylvania Jail Standards, court agreed to standards, and ACA standards as benchmarks against which assessments were made. Staffing analyses of every aspect of each facility were also completed, along with recommendations and cost implications for implementing those recommendations. Similar work was completed for the Nassau County Jail (NY), the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, the Arizona Department of Corrections, the Utah Department of Corrections, the Connecticut Department of Correction, the Georgia Department of Corrections, the Washington Department of Corrections, the Florida Department of Corrections, the Iowa Department of Corrections, the Michigan Department of Corrections, and Broward County (FL).

He assisted the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in formulating the “Back to Basics” or “B2B” approach to correctional management.

During 1995, he completed a facility master plan for the Wyoming Department of Corrections that included an assessment of the functioning of its facilities, population projections, and recommendations for housing its projected male inmate population.

He has completed a variety of projects funded by and published by the National Institute of Corrections and the National Institute of Justice including a manual on Correctional Contracting: A Guide to Successful Experiences, and a report on Private Sector Involvement in Prison Services and Operations. Additional studies he worked on include the Management of Crowded Prisons; Prison Employees: Corrections Most Valuable Resource; and Resolution of Prison Riots. He is also the author of The Real Cost of Corrections. He is co-author of the Corrections Yearbook, an annual publication of the Criminal Justice Institute, that presents national data on privately operated prisons and jails. He has worked extensively in and studied privatization, contracting, strategic planning, and facilitating and gaining consensus with correctional work groups.

He has a Bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College, a Master’s degree in Criminology and Corrections from Florida State University, and a Doctorate in Sociology from Yale University.

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Download Robert May's CJI Resume.

Mr. May is a partner at the Criminal Justice Institute and staffs the DC area office located in Hagerstown, Maryland. Bob has over 28 years of criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections, community-based programs, and intervention experience. He has worked at the national level in the corrections and substance abuse treatment fields for the past 17 years. During this time Mr. May has planned and delivered technical assistance to state and county correctional agencies on issues involving all aspects of corrections for the U.S. Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services. His experience is unique as it spans the entire criminal justice continuum from law enforcement, to community re-entry, to work within the institutions themselves. Working with jails and state Departments of Correction in almost every state, he has gained valuable expertise related to staffing studies, operational assessments, program implementation and problem solving.

Prior to joining CJI, Bob was a Principal with Johnson, Bassin and Shaw, Inc, where he was Director of Criminal Justice Projects. In that capacity he directed technical assistance and training for a variety of criminal justice treatment projects. Prior to JBS he also served as Executive Director of National TASC, a professional membership organization representing Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities programs around the country. As Director of Special Projects at the American Jail Association he directed the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Jail Drug Treatment Demonstration and Correctional Options Technical Assistance and Training projects. Mr. May holds a Bachelors degree in Behavioral Sciences from the University of Maryland and is working toward his Master's degree in Public Administration. He has many years experience in law enforcement as chief criminal investigator and lieutenant and is a 1984 graduate of the FBI National Academy. Read more ...

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Patricia is experienced with the design, validation, and implementation of classification systems, data base development and management, court services, parole decision making and community supervision innovations.

Projects in which she has played a major role have included, but are not limited to, the design and validation of classification systems for Philadelphia Prison System, and for state correctional agencies in Wyoming, Rhode Island, Delaware, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Oregon, Montana (prison and community supervision), Maine (adult prison and youth training school), Kentucky, Florida, West Virginia, Mississippi, and Idaho.

Her work with juvenile agencies include the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (both external and internal classification), and the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center.

She has also conducted extensive evaluations of drug offender treatment in local jails; and an evaluation of federally funded correctional options programs in five states.

Dr. Hardyman also participated in the NIC internal classification initiative in Florida, South Dakota, Oregon, New Jersey, Missouri, Colorado, Connecticut, and Washington state and served as principal investigator for the development and implementation of gender responsive classification systems for state correctional systems.

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Download John Blackmore's CJI resume.

John Blackmore is Senior Associate of the Criminal Justice Institute, Inc., a non-for-profit criminal justice policy studies and research organization; President of The Reform Group, Inc., a national consulting organization, and a general partner of Criminal Justice Solutions, LLC, a consulting and product development company associated with the Criminal Justice Institute.

For the past 25 years, Mr. Blackmore has been associated with innovative juvenile justice, social services, and education programs as a writer, planner, evaluator, director, and principal investigator. Prior to becoming associated with Criminal Justice Solutions, Mr. Blackmore was Director of Project Development at National Development and Research Institutes, Inc., where he developed and implemented new projects and managed the company's evaluation and technical assistance consultancy efforts. He has also served as Co-Principal Investigator of Project RECOVERY and Director of Project REFORM, federal planning and technical assistance initiatives promoting comprehensive drug treatment programs for offenders; Director of Aftercare and Delinquency Prevention Services for the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice; Director of Court Operations for New York City's Victim Services Agency; Director of Special Projects at the Institute of Judicial Administration of the New York University School of Law; and Editor/Writer for CORRECTIONS and POLICE, magazines promoting criminal justice reform published by The Ford Foundation.

During his tenure with NYC DJJ, Mr. Blackmore designed, developed and implemented the nation’s first comprehensive aftercare program for juveniles returning to their home communities from juvenile detention. The program has been widely emulated in jurisdictions across the country. The aftercare design, along with the comprehensive case management program that accompanied it, were awarded the Innovations in Government Award granted by the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

He has served as a program development consultant for the Georgia Department of Corrections, the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, and the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services in establishing effective substance abuse programs in juvenile justice and corrections settings.

Mr. Blackmore is also an experienced researcher and program evaluator. He has designed, conducted and evaluated numerous juvenile justice, educational, social service, and drug treatment programs in Texas, New York, Connecticut, and in the Federal Republic of Germany.

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