NYC Correction Guardians Assoc.

WELCOME

The Correction Guardians Association is a Law Enforcement Organization consisting of Uniformed and Non-Uniformed members. we have been around for more than 71 years.

Founded in 1939 by Dr. Lawrence Irvin, a NYC Corrections Department Dentist, and Correction Officer James Harrison, who was the first elected President of the Org., and also became the first African American Provisional Warden of the Department.

The Video on this page by Brother Ralph Smith has a lot of history photos and great music. If this video is not enough to make you want to be a member of this organization or bring you back as a member, I don’t know what to tell you…

The organization provides scholarships to minority youths, outreach, training, grievances, mentoring, guest speakers, financial advisement, toy drives, community service, family outings, and networking.

This organization takes pride in upholding the law and continues to serve the people of NYS to the best of our ability.

Our meetings are held the second Monday of every month at the Langston Hughes Public Library located at 100-01 Northen Blvd., Astoria Queens,(Corner of 100th Street) 5pm for the Executive Board and delegates, 6pm for the general membership. We break during the Months of July and August.

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A message from the NAACP:

Friend,

Last week was a game changer. We issued our call for voting rights in the streets of New York, at the United Nations and across the nation through the media. The far right is now on the defensive about their attack on voting rights.

In collaboration with Brave New Foundation, the NAACP has put together a new video about the impact of the voting right attacks on communities of color. Please take a moment to watch and spread the message to everyone you know, then text STAND to 62227:

http://action.naacp.org/wewillstand

Our new video, We Will Stand, shows exactly how difficult obtaining ID can be for many people. In the rural South, many people of a certain age have no birth certificate because they were born to a midwife. For them, the barriers to getting a state issued ID without a birth certificate are tremendous. Others are dependent on the rides to the polls provided by church-organized Sunday voting drives, which have been shut down in some states.

In 2012, we will work tirelessly to ensure every American has the ability to vote. On Martin Luther King Day, we will launch an unprecedented voter registration drive and our first-ever voter identification drive. And throughout next year, we will wage voting rights battles in state houses and courts around the country.

Across the country, community activists are joining us in that effort. As our video shows, South Carolina doctor Brenda Williams has spent countless hours and thousands of dollars helping her patients clear the financial and legal hurdles associated with satisfying the state's new strict voter ID law.

Dr. Williams is a hero in her community – but she cannot do it alone. It is going to take the efforts of people like you to help strengthen our front line and ensure our right to vote in 2012 and beyond.

I urge you to take this opportunity to make this movement your own and stand on the right side of history. Watch our video, share it with your friends, then text the word STAND to 62227 using your mobile phone. We will use this list in the year ahead to make sure that you have the information that you need to fight back against voting rights attacks in your community:

http://action.naacp.org/wewillstand

Remember that the right to vote empowers us to defend our other rights. Enemies of justice will target your voting rights to take away the rest of your rights, knowing that when they come for your right to vote, the whole house of cards we call democracy starts to fall.

Text STAND to 62227 and help us build a strong foundation.

Ben

Benjamin Todd Jealous
President and CEO
NAACP

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OFFICERS AND CIVILIANS IN EVERY RANK OF THIS DEPARTMENT SHOULD READ
THIS SECTION... BE, PROUD, BE SMART, BE STRONG,,, YOUR BOLD!!

THIS SECTION IS DEDICATED TO A VISION OF EXCELLENCE..

The First Name of thefirst C.O. to Become Commissioner
was Jackie,as in ...
Jacqueline!

The front page of the Winter 1984 issue of the DOC newsletter Inside Out featured a headline announcing, “First Correction Officer Named Commissioner” and a photo in which the podium nearly hid the new Commissioner whom family, friends and colleagues called Jackie but whose letterhead read Jacqueline McMickens.

Her first Inside Out Commissioner’s Corner
(Winter 1984) excerpts:

. . . the first selection of a uniformed member of this department to be its Commissioner should prove beneficial to every member of our agency . . . the decisions we reach from this point forward will be the ultimate responsibility of someone who has worked at every level of this system . . . the Commissioner no longer has to remember to try to mull the consequences from the perspective of an officer or a captain or a tour commander or a warden.

I have been all of those people and I can assure you I could not forget what those jobs are like even if I tried.

This department has been in the hands of some good and well-meaning people over the years. Pointing up the potential advantage to all of us of placing its control of someone from the ranks does not diminish their abilities and accomplishments. Indeed, there may well have been a time when our ranks were so limited in size and scope that a choice from within was inappropriate.

But many of us know that those days are long past. I was neither the first nor the only member of the Department of Correction qualified to lead it. I am the first so chosen and that role carries with it some unique responsibilities and opportunities for me and for many of you as well. . . .

Some would say that with so much to be done this is hardly the time to embark upon new programs or weigh new philosophies. I say this is just the time because we are moving so rapidly to expand and remake our system.

The new beds we are adding and most of those we now have will be in operation in the 21st Century, as will the new staff we bring on and we ought to be sure that the instututions we create today will be adaptable to the needs of tomorrow. Would that our predecessors have done as much for us.

Why do we exist? A rookie officer can tell you in his first week "Care, custody and control of inmates." But time changes the meaning of words. Once, "care" meant providing a bar of soap and some toilet paper -- and we couldn't do that very well. Now, "care" is spelled out in our standards and decrees, but those are in large measures composed of language crafted to respond to complaints.

I would like to think that somewhere along the line we can devise our own notion of what we can accomplish to make jail something more than a negative and wasted experience for certain inmates.

Then it will be those of us charged with providing the "care" who are spelling it out rather than toeing a line somebody else has drawn.

At the outset, I noted that my accession said some very positive things about this department. It was not the first member of this agency qualified to lead it nor am I the only person so qualified today. But everything starts from somewhere and I happen to have been the first person so chosen.

TheInside Out</> quoted from newspaper interview given by her after the swear-in:

I will try to serve in the best traditions of our department and to live up to the good wishes and expectations many of you have expressed to me in the past few weeks.

In nearly 20 years, I have been taught by a great many individuals, some of them still on the job. Rather than express may gratitude to them by name, I would like to thank all of you who have helped to build this agency and to improve the image of the Department of Correction to the point that someone from the ranks would be considered qualified to lead it.

If we perform the way I know we can in the months and years ahead, the next time a correction officer rises to Commissioner it won't be big news.

". . . 'This job cannot be learned in a classroom,' Commissioner McMickens said."

"Our officers serve an apprenticeship, in effect, and with the tremendous expansion we are in the midst of as well as normal rates of turnover, a very large percentage of our staff is relatively new."

"We have to do as much as we can to help these officers educate themselves. . . ."

"My mission is pretty much to make this place a good place to work and to carry out its mission as cost-effectively and creatively as possible,' the new Commissioner told the New York Times in a 'Woman in the News' interview the day of her appointment. "

"People ought to work in an environment as livable as possible.

Chief of Operations McMickens Introduced Body Alarms at HDM
	DOC’s first Body Alarms were introduced in 1980 on Jacqueline McMickens’ watch as top ranked officer in the Department.
CHIEF OF OPERATIONS Jacqueline McMickens examines new portable alarm supplied by Joseph Sobsey of the Motorola Co. Eventually the radio alarms, which transmit to an institutional console, will be in place throughout the Department.
Above: Image of May 1980 newsletter story. Below: The text of that story.

	THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN ON AUGUST 4, 2010 BY V.CAPERS, Sergeant-At-Arms/Director of Communications.
WE THE CORRECTION GUARDIANS SALUTE YOU....

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