Chief; Jails Division
National Institute of Corrections
Washington, District of Columbia
Stephen Amos is the Chief of the Jails Division at the National Institute of Corrections within the U.S. Department of Justice. Stephen has directed frontline training, technical assistance, information dissemination, program planning, and policy development for the past six years in support of the nation’s jails and detention facilities at the federal, state, local and tribal levels. In addition to a broad array of agency-specific mission-critical services provided to the field by his team of expert Correctional Program Specialists, the following are some of the select broader impacting initiatives achieved to include: DOJ Jails Technical Assistance and Training Working Group; Jail Collaborative Reform Initiative; Jail-Based Medication-Assisted Treatment: Promising Practices, Guidelines, and Resources for the Field (publication); Texas Mental Health Officer Training Initiative; Justice-Involved Veteran’s Initiative; National Sheriff’s Institute Expansion Initiative: National Institute of Corrections and American Jail Association Curriculum Collaboration Initiative: Strategic Inmate Management Initiative: Restrictive Housing Initiative, and the Massachusetts Special Commission on Correctional Funding Staffing Analysis Initiative.
He is an accomplished public safety executive with more than three decades of broad success in crafting and delivering sustainable correctional capacity and innovative public policy throughout the United States and Afghanistan. His expertise includes crisis leadership, executive coaching, change management, technical assistance and training, strategic planning, and cost containment. He is a contributor to numerous publications and the subject matter of a bestseller, "The Art of Crisis Leadership." He holds a Master’s Degree in Law Enforcement and Correctional Administration and is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM