The Office of International & Executive Programs (OIEP)

Harley Lappin

Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons

Harley G. Lappin was sworn in as Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons on April 4, 2003. He is a career public administrator in the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the seventh Director of the Bureau since its establishment in 1930.

Director Lappin is a native of Akron, OH. He received a B.A. degree in Forensic Studies from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN in 1978 and a M.A. degree in Criminal Justice and Correctional Administration from Kent State University in Kent, OH in 1985.

He was selected Branch Administrator of the Program Review Division at the Bureau’s Central Office in Washington, DC in 1993. In that capacity, Mr. Lappin was responsible for the Bureau’s strategic planning and annual reviews of institution performance measures. Additionally, he was responsible for coordinating the review of functions that preceded the Bureau’s reengineering efforts and developing performance measures for the executive staff modules.

Mr. Lappin was promoted to Warden at the FCI in Butner, NC in 1996. FCI Butner housed approximately 1,200 male offenders at the time representing several security levels. As Warden of that facility, he also managed a forensic center, inpatient and outpatient psychiatric units, sex offender treatment, and a satellite prison camp. He directed the development and implementation of the Habilitation Program to transition high security inmates to lower security facilities. In 1998, Mr. Lappin was selected as Warden at the United States Penitentiary (USP), Terre Haute, IN, where he was responsible for about 1,000 high security male inmates, a satellite prison camp, and national bus operations. At USP Terre Haute, Mr. Lappin activated the Bureau’s Special Confinement Unit, which houses Federal inmates under death sentences, and implemented the Federal execution protocol. Mr. Lappin carried out the daunting responsibility of presiding over the first two executions by the Federal system since 1963.

Mr. Lappin was promoted to Regional Director of the Mid-Atlantic Region in July 2001. As Regional Director, he was responsible for oversight of 16 institutions (including 2 correctional complexes) and 3 community corrections offices located in a seven-state area.

Mr. Lappin chaired the Bureau’s Management Reengineering Team (MRT). Under Mr. Lappin’s leadership, the MRT successfully reduced the number of management positions and supervisory layers while maintaining the quality of operations throughout the agency. The MRT also initiated pilot-testing of innovative organizational configurations at multiple Bureau institutions to assess impact on line staff and management work processes of these non-traditional organizational alignments.

In 1992, Mr. Lappin received the Associate Warden of the Year award for the Bureau's South Central Region. He received the Bureau's Excellence in Prison Management Award in 2000 for his oversight of the activation of the Special Confinement Unit at USP Terre Haute, combined with strategies he implemented to reduce per capita costs. In 2001, he received the Attorney General's Award for Excellence in Management for the manner in which he carried out the responsibilities associated with the 2001 Federal executions, a manner exemplifying the best qualities of Bureau leadership. Most recently (2004), he received the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive.

Mr. Lappin is a member of the American Correctional Association's Standards Committee, which establishes the standards for the accreditation of correctional institutions nationally. He is also a member of the North American Association of Wardens and Superintendents.

Dr. Charles Wellford

Professor Charles F. Wellford is professor of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He also serves as Director of the Maryland Justice Analysis Center. He was Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice (formerly Institute of Criminal Justice and Criminology) from 1981 to 1995, then again from 1998 - 2004. From 1992 to 1998 he was Director of the Office of Academic Computing Services in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. For 1998 he was Acting Associate Provost and Dean of Continuing and Extended Education, and in 1998-99 he was Interim Associate Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School. He serves on numerous state and federal advisory boards and commissions and is a past (1995-96) President of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) and in 1996 was elected a Fellow of the ASC. He is the Chair of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Law and Justice and recently chaired the NAS panel on pathological gambling. Currently he chairs the panel of research on firearms. In Maryland he currently serves on the Maryland Sentencing Policy Commission, and the Criminal Justice Information Advisory
Board. From 1976 81 Dr. Wellford served in the Office of the United States Attorney General where he directed the Federal Justice Research Program. During that time he directed research on federal sentencing and prosecution policies and on the state of civil justice in America. The author of numerous publications on criminal justice issues, Dr. Wellford's most recent research has focused on the determinants of sentencing, and the correlates of homicide clearance at the University of Maryland, Dr. Wellford has been active in a variety of efforts. He has served on and chaired numerous academic review committees. He chaired the Campus Security Committee from 1985-1995, been a member of the Athletic Council (1986-89 and 1992-95, and 1997-present), served on the Campus Human Subjects Committee (1983-87), served on campus drug committees, chaired the review of the Campus Admissions Office, served on the President's Committee on Freedom of Expression, been a member of the Graduate Council (1986-90) and Chair of its PCC (1986-90), and served on or chaired a number of recruitment committees. He is Past-chair of the Campus Senate and served on the campus Academic Policy Advisory Committee and campus promotions committee. Recently, Dr. Wellford was appointed to a five year term as the Faculty Athletic Representative to the NCAA and Chair of the Athletic Council. In 1996 and 2001 he chaired the recruitment committee for the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Edward J. Latessa is a Professor and Head of the Division of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Latessa has published over 75 works in the area of criminal justice, corrections, and juvenile justice. He is co-author of seven books including Corrections in the Community, which is now in its third edition, and the 10^th edition of Corrections in America. Professor Latessa has directed over 60 funded research projects including, studies of day reporting centers, juvenile justice programs, drug courts, intensive supervision programs, halfway houses, and drug programs. He and his staff have also assessed over 350 correctional programs throughout the United States. Dr. Latessa is a consultant with the National Institute of Corrections, and he has provided assistance and workshops in over forty states. Dr. Latessa served as President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (1989-90). He has also received several awards including; the August Vollmer Award from the American Society of Criminology (2004), the Simon Dinitz Criminal Justice Research Award from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (2002), the Margaret Mead Award for dedicated service to the causes of social justice and humanitarian advancement by the International Community Corrections Association (2001), the Peter P. Lejins Award for Research from the American Correctional Association (1999); ACJS Fellow Award (1998); ACJS Founders Award (1992); and the Simon Dinitz award by the Ohio Community Corrections Organization.

Dr. Sally Simpson is the chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice of the University of Maryland. She received BS in Sociology, Oregon State University, 1976; MA in Sociology, Washington State University, 1978; Ph.D in Sociology, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, 1985; Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, 1988-89, Harvard School of Business Administration.

Dr. Simpson's areas of specialization are Criminological Theory, Gender and Crime, Corporate Crime. Recent work has appeared in Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Kobe Law Review, and Law and Society Review.

George M. Keiser is Chief of the Community Corrections/Prisons Division for the National Institute of Corrections (NIC), an integral part of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Department of Justice. In this position, George has oversight responsibilities for the NIC programs and services provided to 50 state departments of corrections and more than 1,400 state prisons in the U.S., commonwealths, and territories. Many of these services are provided through technical assistance and training.

In the area of community corrections, George oversees NIC programs and services that are designed to improve management and operation of pretrial, probation, and parole agencies; residential community corrections facilities; and other community-based corrections programs throughout the U.S. and its commonwealths and territories. NIC's community corrections constituency includes more than 2,500 probation and parole offices and 1,200 community residential facilities.

In the U.S., in excess of 95 percent of all state prisoners eventually complete their sentences and return to the community. George has been influential in establishing a model for offenders to successfully transition from prison to community. This model, Transition From Prison to Community (TPC), supports planning an offender's release to the community at the beginning of the offender's admission to a prison system. Planning for the offender's release continues through the release decision-making process to the offender's successful completion of community supervision. Inherent to this model is the participation of local agencies to provide coordinated services to release offenders to the community in such a way that they will not reoffend.

Before joining NIC in 1983, George served as Deputy Director of the Iowa State Department of Corrections, Division of Community Corrections. During that time, he had oversight responsibilities for the division's community corrections programming. Earlier positions include institutional counselor at the Iowa Penitentiary and Reformatory for Men, Superintendent of the Iowa State Reformatory for Women, Chief of the Bureau of Correctional Institutions, and correctional officer at Iowa's maximum security penitentiary.

George was instrumental in the passage of the 1976 ��Iowa Community Corrections Act.�� The law created multi-county public community corrections agencies governed by boards of directors in the State of Iowa. Moreover, on the subject of community corrections, George served as a technical advisor to the Iowa Crime Commission.

For his many contributions to the field of corrections, George received the Maud Booth Award from the Volunteers of America in 2002, the Vincent O'Leary Award from the Association of Paroling Authorities International in 1999, outstanding recognition from The American Probation and Parole Association in 1998, and the Margaret Mead Award from The International Community Corrections Association in 1996.

Dr. Todd R. Clear is a Distinguished Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, and Executive Officer of the Program of Doctoral Studies in Criminal Justice, The CUNY Graduate Center. In 1978, he received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from The University at Albany. Previous positions include professorships at Ball State University, Rutgers University, and Florida State University (where he was also Associate Dean of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice).

Community Justice (Wadsworth, 2003), What is Community Justice? (Sage, 2002) and The Community Justice Ideal (Westview, 2000). Other recent books include The Offender in the Community and American Corrections (both by Wadsworth, 2003) and Harm in American Penology(SUNY, 1995).

Doris Layton MacKenzie, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland and Director of the Evaluation Research Group. Prior to this position she earned her doctorate from Pennsylvania State University, was on the faculty of the Louisiana State University where she was honored as a "Researcher of Distinction," and was awarded a Visiting Scientist position at the National Institute of Justice. As Visiting Scientist, she provided expertise to Federal, State and Local jurisdictions on correctional boot camps, correctional policy, intermediate sanctions, research methodology, experimental design, statistical analyses, and evaluation techniques. As an expert in criminal justice, Dr. MacKenzie has consulted with State and Local jurisdictions, and has testified before U.S. Senate and House Committees. She has an extensive publication record on such topics as examining what works to reduce crime in the community, inmate adjustment to prison, the impact of intermediate sanctions on recidivism, long-term offenders, methods of predicting prison populations, self-report criminal activities of probationers and boot camp prisons. She directed funded research projects on the topics of: "Multi-Site Study of Correctional Boot Camps," "Descriptive Study of Female Boot Camps," "Probationer Compliance with Conditions of Supervision" and "The National Study of Juvenile Correctional Institutions" and “What Works in Corrections.” Currently, Dr. MacKenzie is Chair of the American Society of Criminology's Division on Corrections and Sentencing.

BA (Social Sciences) 1971: John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
MA (Psychology) 1976: City University of New York
MPh (Psychology) 1979: City University of New York
PhD (Clinical Psychology) 1981: City University of New York

Current Positions:
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of
Maryland.
International Criminal Justice Consultant

Former Positions:
First Deputy Commissioner, NYC Department of Correction
Chief of Management and Planning, NYC Department of Correction
Chief of Rikers Island, NYC Department of Correction
Director of Corrections, Prince Georges County, MD

Former Teaching Positions:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
The American University, Washington DC
West Point Military Academy (John Jay satellite Program

Dr Julia Tresidder is a Research Analyst at the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC). Dr Tresidder has extensive experience working on policy and programs that address the needs of 'at risk' and offender groups in community settings in Australia. Her professional background includes managing a review of the Juvenile Justice system in NSW with a focus on community corrections options. She specialises in research that addresses the need to co-ordinate services for high risk individuals across the spectrum of health and welfare service providers. Her PhD from the University of Sydney was awarded by the Faculty of Medicine and is inter-disciplinary in nature. Her doctoral thesis investigated the relationship between alcohol and other drug use, leaving school early and offending amongst out of school adolescents in New South Wales, Australia. She also has extensive experience in developing inter-sectoral workforce development tools to increase the capacity of front-line workers to deliver interventions to high risk groups in community settings.

The AIC is a portfolio agency of the Attorney-General. It is Australia's national centre for the analysis and dissemination of crime and justice data and information. Its core business includes national monitoring programs on homicides, armed robbery, firearms, drug use amongst police arrestees, and deaths in custody. The AIC has a specific program of research on Justice and Crime Analysis that includes work on corrections in Australia. The AIC has extensive experience in undertaking reviews, conceptual work and evaluations. Recent work has been undertaken on prisoner post-release interventions, drug courts, and crime prevention policy areas.

Tom McQuillan joined the probation service in Liverpool in 1972. As a probation officer, he gained substantial experience in all practice activities in the field and also had assignments in both a local prison and at a top security prison. Whilst at the latter institution he was a member of the multi-disciplinary management team that developed a special secure unit for long-term chaotic and dangerous offenders, receiving a national award for this work.

Tom was then appointed as senior probation officer and later assistant chief probation officer, again developing experience in a wide range of management functions. These included the management of services to the courts, interventions with substance misuses, as well as the management of local community relationships. Between 1998 and 2001, he was director of Probation North West Consortium, one of nine regional training consortia. In this role he contributed to the development and implementation of an innovative qualifying training professional qualification for probation officers and introduced a national system for the recruitment and selection of trainees. Tom holds a masters degree in Criminal Justice Management and has also engaged in training and management consultancy, including work for the UK Lord Chancellor’s Department in a major program of training for the judiciary.

He is a long-standing member of a national professional association for probation staff and has been Vice Chair, Chair and Trustee of the organization. He was also a member of the HM Inspectorate of Probation inspection team that conducted a thematic inspection report on race equality throughout the probation service.

In July 2001 he was appointed to the National Probation Directorate as Regional Manager for the East of England. In that role, and on behalf of the NPS Director General, he is responsible for the operation of the national performance management framework to consolidate and improve service performance and for working with the six local probation areas to improve collaborative work, thus securing synergy and added value. He also represents the Director General in the Government Office for the Region, working across all Government Departments and with other partners to ensure that strategic alliances are formed and maintained and that policy development is conducted on a cross-cutting basis.