Co-President: Camille G. Camp
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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