The comprehensive management of mid-sized, county and regional jails is a strategic focus of the Company. In Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio and Arizona, CEC now operates a total of seventeen jail and detention facilities with a combined capacity of approximately 9,000 male and female beds. Offenders are referred by local, county, state and federal jurisdictions, including the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Prisons, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Community Education Centers’ administrators provide the contracting jurisdiction with all-inclusive institutional services and a broad range of programming options - all to standards that are among the most exacting in the profession. Our unique approach fully integrates the principles of treatment-oriented offender management with day-to-day efficient facility functioning. At a CEC-run correctional facility, incarceration and rehabilitation are closely linked objectives and not competing priorities.
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Secure Facilities Division Leadership
Jim Shaw has served for the last seven years as Divisional Director for the Company's Secure Facilities Division. His extensive experience in the field of correctional management includes twenty years of service with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) Institutional Division, where he advanced to the rank of TDCJ Director for all of Region II. In that role, Mr. Shaw directed the management and operation of fifteen adult correctional facilities, approved all unit level policies and procedures, coordinated program functions with other agency and divisional operations, and directed staff development and human resources action related to unit security staff.
John Gilbert is the Deputy Associate Regional Manager. He oversees contract and regulatory compliance for CEC’s federal, state and county offender housing contracts, supervises facility internal audit procedures and assists with the implementation of new facility operations. Previously, John Gilbert was employed by TDCJ for over twenty years, most recently as the Director of the Private Facilities Division, where his responsibilities included the management of contracts and the monitoring of contract compliance of all privately contracted facilities.
Bob Prince, Texas Director of Customer Relations, is a retired captain of the Texas Rangers with more than 35 years of criminal justice experience. Prior to his career as a Texas Ranger, Mr. Prince served with the Texas Highway Patrol. Mr. Prince received numerous commendations over the years in a career has brought him in contact with corrections and law enforcement officials at every level of government. Mr. Prince is CEC’s primary liaison with the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Texas Rangers, the US Marshals Service, as well as with county sheriffs), and his expertise and training have been invaluable in safeguarding the operations and personnel of the Company's most secure sites.
Oscar Barrientes is Special Assistant to the Regional Director, and prior to joining the Company had a tenure of 29 years with the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS), presently the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). His duties included a posting to the District Detention and Removal Program as the lead officer in the undertaking of Jail Inspections/Audits of local/area detention facilities, and contract writing for the purpose of securing detention of INS detainees with local and county government entities. This, and his current assignment as corporate liaison for ICE and TCJS audits, has helped establish Mr. Barrientes as an authority on the workings of inter-governmental contracting and brought him into contact with purchasing staff (including the detention acquisition and support branch of ICE) important to the Company’s overall sales efforts.
A number of the Secure Facilities currently operate under the name CiviGenics Texas, Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Community Education Centers, Inc.
