Featured Sessions
Explore practical, real-world education through featured sessions organized into two specialized tracks.
Discover practical, real-world education led by experienced corrections professionals. Sessions are organized into two specialized tracks designed to address today’s most pressing challenges.
Explore sessions focused on professional growth, employee wellness, operational accountability, legal developments, and emerging issues affecting today’s jails.
Tentative Summit Agenda
Professional Development & Wellness
Generations in Corrections: Turning Differences into Strengths
Stacy Heath
Delves into several key topics. It will explore generational differences, examine effective strategies to avoid age-based stereotypes, and highlight the importance of recognizing and leveraging the unique strengths each generation brings to the correctional field.
More Than Compliance: Why Religious Accommodations Matter in Jails
Gerard Horgan
Explores how correctional staff manage inmate religious requests, balance constitutional rights with operational demands, apply the Turner Test, and navigate diverse faith accommodations informed by national court decisions.
Leadership Wellness: A Wellness-Focused Approach
Brenda Dietzman
Examines how leader wellness shapes effectiveness, culture, and succession, offering practical strategies to reduce burnout, strengthen well-being, and model healthy behaviors that inspire future leaders to step confidently into leadership roles.
Risk Management
Current Legal Issues Impacting Jails with Carrie Hill
Carrie Hill
Provides a current overview of major court decisions shaping jail operations, highlighting emerging legal trends, Supreme Court rulings, and practical guidance to strengthen compliance, reduce liability, and support effective correctional leadership.
Why Jail Classification Matters: Safety, Security, and Accountability
Justin Beetz & Brad Collito
Covers objective jail classification principles, legal standards, and assessment practices that strengthen safety, reduce liability, and support defensible housing decisions through validated tools, constitutional requirements, and key court rulings.
Suicide in Jails: Understanding Risks, Prevention, and Leadership Strategies
Ashley Brinkman
Explores suicide risks in jails through a trauma-informed lens, highlighting how trauma shapes behavior and outlining leadership and operational strategies that strengthen safety, reduce retraumatization, and support meaningful engagement in care.
The State of PREA in Jails: Progress, Challenges, and the Road Ahead
Linda McFarlane & Tara Graham
Reviews current sexual abuse trends in jails, recent PREA-related data, and agency responses, offering updated guidance, resources, and field-tested strategies to strengthen prevention, improve reporting, and protect people in custody.
The State of Jails: Hot Topics, Emerging Trends, and What Jail Leaders Need to Know
Jared Schechter, Stacy Heath, Jose Gurule & Ashley Miller
Features jail leaders from across the country discussing emerging trends, shared challenges, and practical solutions, offering real-time insights that strengthen decision-making and illuminate the current landscape of jail operations.
How to Utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Detention and Corrections Space
Michael Kennon
Introduces practical, security-focused ways to apply AI in detention and corrections, clarifying core concepts, key policy considerations, high-value data sources, and real-world implementation challenges to improve safety, efficiency, and accountability.
Your Black Swan is Someone Else's Gray Rhino
Gordon Graham
Explores Black Swan and Grey Rhino concepts in public safety, showing how leaders identify overlooked risks, analyze root causes, and share lessons learned to strengthen decision-making and prevent organizational failures.