Co-President: George Camp
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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