Emergency Response Team Graduation Held
Several officers graduated from Emergency Response Team School on May 17, 2019! Pictured here are the graduates along with their trainers and Chief Deputy Dale Reed.
Graduation Held for Arkansas Correctional School
Several hundred inmates received their GED and 21 were awarded college degrees at the annual Arkansas Correctional School graduation ceremony held on May 15, 2019 at the Ouachita River Correctional Unit in Malvern. This was the largest GED class in ADC history!
Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. delivered an inspiring commencement address that challenged the graduates to not let their future be determined by their past actions.
ADC Participates in Pop Tab Pandemonium 2019
The Arkansas Department of Correction recently competed in the 11th Annual Pop Tab Pandemonium contest benefiting Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Arkansas (RMHCA).
Over the past several months, a number of schools and business/civic groups from across the state competed to collect the most pop tabs to be recycled by the charity. All proceeds from recycling the tabs goes directly to the RMHCA to help sponsor the costs of giving families who have children in the hospital a safe, comfortable, and free place to stay.
The weigh-in for Pop Tab Pandemonium 2019 was held at the Little Rock Zoo on Friday, May 10, 2019. More than 6,000 pounds of pop tabs were collected this year (which equals more than six-million pop tabs)!
The ADC contributed a total of 220 pounds to the cause, with the top three units that participated collecting 123.01 pounds of our total amount collected. Those units were:
• 1st Place – GRIMES UNIT – 55.2 lbs.
• 2nd Place – WRIGHTSVILLE UNIT – 42.65 lbs.
• 3rd Place – CUMMINS UNIT – 25.16 lbs.
Thank you to all of our ADC employees who took the time to pop a tab for such a worthwhile cause!
Central Office employees Cendie Thompson (left), Lauren Holstead,
and Nicole Smart posed with Miss Arkansas 2018, Claudia
Raffo, after delivering the ADC’s 220 pounds of Pop Tabs
for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Arkansas!
[LEFT PHOTO] – The ADC’s 220 pounds of pop tabs were loaded
onto the scale at once during the weigh in held at the Little Rock Zoo.
[RIGHT PHOTO] – Lauren Holstead, Volunteer Services Coordinator for the
ADC, organized the details for the agency’s participation in the contest.
Blood Drive Held at Admin East
A mobile unit from the Arkansas Blood Institute, a non-profit blood center, visited ADC’s Administrative Annex East office in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on May 9, 2019. Admin East staff really stepped up and not only achieved their goal for number of appointments for the day, but reached their donation goal as well! The blood donated by volunteers who participated in the drive will support patients in 40 Arkansas hospitals. Thank you to ALL who participated in helping to save lives by donating blood.
Mobile donation unit from the Arkansas Blood Institute
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Candace Robertson (left) and Michelle Metott-Works
Becky Watts (left) and Debbie Reynolds
Carol Yelland (left) and Carol Duncan
Michelle Metott-Works (right) lends a little emotional
support to her colleague Carol Yelland
Correctional Officers Week 2019
*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SECTION IS BEING UPDATED*
Governor Asa Hutchinson officially declared the week of May 5th–11th as Correctional Officers Week in Arkansas. Over the week, Correctional Officers, employees, nurses, and teachers were celebrated throughout the agency with cookouts, luncheons and sweet treats galore! Here’s how several units from throughout the state celebrated:
Benton Unit
Staff at the Benton Unit enjoyed burgers, hot dogs, and pizza!
Cummins Unit
Donuts and juice were served every morning and the Quality Management Team prepared a delicious meal of fried fish, baked beans, coleslaw, fries and hushpuppies.
Deputy Warden Bolden, Sgt. S. Johnson, C. Cook, S
gt. T. Hester, COII Johnson, and Ms. C. Owen
[LEFT] Sgt. S. Johnson and Ms. C. Cook passing out trays to the night shift
[RIGHT] Sgt. J. Jones and Lt. L. Johnson
[LEFT] Sgt. S. Johnson, Ms. C. Cook, and Capt. J. Coleman
[RIGHT] Sgt. S. Johnson, Ms. C. Cook, and COII
[LEFT] Sgt. S. Johnson, Ms. C. Cook, and Lt. M. Fitzpatrick
[RIGHT] Quality Management Team Members: Sgt. S. Lofton, COII M. Mosely, and Mr. J. Haynes
[LEFT] Quality Management Team members Sgt. C. Plummer and Sgt. S. Johnson with COII Harris
[RIGHT] Mr. L. Cogbill, Chaplain M. Ault, Ms. V. Harris, and Mr. T. Owens being served by the Quality Management Team
[LEFT] Cummins Unit Field Staff being served lunch
[RIGHT] Staff enjoying lunch
[LEFT] Warden Straughn
[RIGHT] Ms. J. Downen and Ms. C. Spratt from the Records Department
Maximum Security Unit
To say “thanks for all you do,” the Maximum Security Unit celebrated their correctional employees with a cookout, sweet treats, popcorn, and a pizza party!
Varner Unit
Deputy Director Dexter Payne visited with Varner Unit staff as they enjoyed a lunch of grilled burgers and hot dogs during Correctional Officers Week!
