Gary Job Corps Celebrates National Correction Officers Appreciation Week

He wrote that correctional officers are “essential to the day-to-day operations of these institutions; without them it would be impossible to achieve the foremost institutional goals of security and control.”

On May 5, 1984, then-President Ronald Reagan issued Proclamation 5187-National Correctional Officers’ Week, in which he called “upon officials of State and local governments and the people of the United States to observe this week with appropriate ceremonies and activities,” to recognize “the contributions of correctional officers to our Nation.”

Cadets from the Gary Job Corps Corrections/Security program rendered honors during ceremony.  Lonnie Hall, Gary Center Director, and Hays County Constable David Peterson shared with the cadets and staff their appreciation for the students to take on the vocation in the Corrections trade.

President Reagan was the first president to formally recognize the great work of those in our profession and the very difficult, and at times dangerous, nature of corrections work. He wrote that correctional officers are “essential to the day-to-day operations of these institutions; without them it would be impossible to achieve the foremost institutional goals of security and control.”

Pictured during ceremony;  Lonnie Hall, Center Director, staff, Rachel Garnes, Irma Pardo, instructors, Eugene Edokpa, Evelyn Hernandez, Troy Oldbury, Betty Oliva, Sean Schultz, Preston Smith, Lauren Stevens, Cadets from the Corrections/Security trade, and Hays County Constable David Peterson.