Avoiding Offender Manipulation: Safeguarding Your Staff (Part 2)

Lt. Gary F. Cornelius retired in 2005 from the Fairfax County (VA) Office of the Sheriff, after serving over 27 years in the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center. His prior service in law enforcement in several agencies included service in the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division. His jail career included assignments in confinement, work release, programs, and classification. Gary taught corrections courses for the Criminology, Law, and Society Department at George Mason University from 1986-2018. He also teaches corrections in service sessions throughout Virginia and has performed training and consulting for the American Correctional Association, the American Jail Association, the International Association of Correctional Training Personnel, the National Institute of Justice, Lexipol and for several jails in Virginia. He also presents online webinars and presentations on correctional issues.

Dr. Kevin E. Courtright is a member of the Department of Criminal Justice, Anthropology and Forensic Studies at Edinboro University. of Pennsylvania. Prior teaching appointments included positions at Hilbert College and Niagara University. He teaches several corrections courses at both the introductory and advanced levels, having obtained his Ph.D. in criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1995. He is known for his innovative style, inviting corrections practitioners to speak to his students and taking students on tours of correctional facilities. Dr. Courtright was awarded the accolade of “Faculty Member of the Year” at Edinboro University in 2021. Dr. Courtright has written extensively for corrections-related publications. Kevin’s work has appeared in The Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Federal Probation, The Criminologist, The Journal of Criminal Justice Education, The Prison Journal, Corrections Compendium and Criminal Justice Studies. Dr. Courtright has completed grant work for The Center for Rural Pennsylvania on the siting of prisons in rural Pennsylvania. Prior to his college teaching career, Kevin served as a probation officer in New York state. He resides in Clymer, New York.