American Correctional Officer is highly professional organization that NCPSO-VA has partnered up with to give us the national resources we all need to be successful.

American Correctional Officer is a national coalition of organizations, fraternal associations and unions whose members include publicly employed correctional officers and corrections professionals.

American Correctional Officer is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the corrections profession. It is run for and by correctional officers working in our local, county, state, federal and juvenile correctional facilities.

Mission:

The mission and purpose of American Correctional Officer is to promote the well being and safety of publicly employed Correctional Officers and corrections professionals; to improve the working conditions for all who work in public corrections; to share best practices so that all can benefit; to educate the media, general public and our elected officials about the daily challenges we face; to seek progressive change to meet those challenges; to provide information, research and mutual support for all associations, unions and fraternal organizations who count corrections professionals among their members; to establish an international communications network among corrections professionals; to provide a national voice for our profession and to continue to protect the public by working to ensure that our nations prisons, jails and juvenile justice facilities are safe and secure.