American Correctional Officer

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We’ve Got Your Back

Medal of Honor and

Fall Training Conference

Hilton Hotel Logan Airport,

Boston, MA

Sept 17-19, 2009 

For Reservations Call

1-617-568-6700

Arrive at Boston’s Logan Airport – save hundreds of dollars with no need for a rental car or even a taxi! Take the walk way straight from baggage claim to your room. All rooms offer either a view of the Boston skyline or incoming and outgoing planes at the airport.

Rooms are only $149 a night and include a continental breakfast and our Awards Banquet on Friday night and full breakfast Saturday morning.

Catch the shuttle right to downtown Boston at the hotel. Faneuil Hall Market Place, the Old North Church, Freedom Trail, USS Constitution, Fenway Park, Harbor cruises;  the list of things to do and see in Boston are endless and you are right in the middle of the action at the Hilton Logan airport. Complete gym, internet service, full restaurant and lounge all on premises.

Conferences Highlights

2009 Medal of Honor winners will be flown into Boston and treated with the dignity and respect deserving our professions hero’s. They will receive their awards Friday night September 18, 2009 at our Banquet held in their honor. Mark your calendar now – and wear your uniform when you attend! As a nation of Correctional Officers we represent some of the bravest men and women in law enforcement. It’s time the nation recognized us for what we do every day. There is no fee to attend but you MUST register with us so that we know how many meals to prepare and we have the appropriate materials.

Special Guest Speaker: Mr. Don Novey

Former President and founder of the California

Correctional Peace Officers Association. Mr. Novey is

given credit for making CCPOA one of the highest regarded and

powerful voices for corrections in the nation. He started the

CCPOA PAC which is regarded as the most influential

and successful PAC’s in the country for our profession.

Training Seminar: East Coast/West Coast Gangs

Last years training seminar on Courtroom Testimony was incorporated into the basic training curriculum in Arundel County, MD. The ACO 2007 Training Seminar on Inmate Covert Communications has been used in facilities across the nation. Gangs are a huge problem for us.

Don’t miss Sgt Mike Van Patten and Correctional Officer Ed Callaghan’s presentation. Both Officers are certified instructors.

Legislation: ACO Legislative Chairman Jack Rosser will give a special presentation on the results of our lobbying efforts in DC as well as the Senator Jim Webb’s (D-VA) Corrections Reform Committee.

Cell phones: A special presentation on cell phones in our prisons, jails and juvenile detention facilities, the danger they present and the need to jam these devices will be discussed.

Also:

Privatization:

Over 7% OF ALL INMATES ARE NOW IN PRIVATE PENS!

Image Enhancement

Committee reports

A Tazer demonstration is also in the works and is being scheduled.

    Register today this conference will sell out very fast.

617-568-6700

                     Agenda 2009 Fall Conference &

Medal of Honor Banquet

September 17, 2009

Thursday

3:00 PM – 6:00 PM Board of Directors Meeting

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Conference registration, meet and greet

September 18, 2009

Friday

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM      Posting of the colors, Suffolk County House of Correction

                   Honor Guard, Boston, MA

                   Welcome to Massachusetts

                    Associate Commissioner Jim Bender

                   Welcome ACO President Vito Dagnello, Presidents Report

9:15 AM – ACO and ACOIN Corrections Today – Brian Dawe

10:00 AM – “Correctional Officers Under Fire”,

                    G Ouillette, D Steele Ph D.

10:30 AM – Legislative Update, Jack Rosser, Washington DC

11:00 AM – Corrections and Political Action in today’s economy,

                             Featured guest speaker Mr. Don Novey, CA

12:00 Noon  Lunch break, conference reconvenes at 1 PM

1:00 PM – 4 :00 PM East Coast West Coast Gang seminar

                   Sgt. Michael Van Patten, Oregon

                   Officer Eddie Callaghan, New York

4:00 PM – Conference recesses

National Medal of Honor Awards Banquet

Friday evening September 18, 2009

Class A uniform urged for all active duty personnel

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Awards Banquet reception, cash bar

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM ACO Medal of Honor Awards Ceremony

          Posting of the Colors

          Massachusetts Department of Corrections Honor Guard

          Rhode Island Department of Corrections Pipe & Drum Band

          Invocation Chaplain Baron Rodriquez

          Featured Speaker Mr. Don Novey

September 19, 2009

Saturday

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Buffet breakfast

9:00 AM – Prison Privatization, Gary Harkins

9:30 AM – The Correctional Officer Information Network, Henry Ruiz

10:00 AM – “Preventing Illegal Use of Cell Phones Correctional

                    Facilities”, Howard Malemed

11:00 AM – Image Enhancement

                   James Milowski – Movies and Music for the Military

                   Eric Spierer, Eddie Callahan – COBBBS

                   Brian Dawe – Living Well

                   Mike Haley – Changing the face of corrections

12:00 AM – Tazer Demonstration

12:45 PM –What’s next, President Vito Dagnello

1:00 PM       Conference adjourns

Brian Dawe
Brian Dawe
Executive Director
ACO/ACOIN
PO Box 1175
Thayne, WY 83127
307-883-9707
www.COIntel.net