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Department of Corrections
Bell County Forestry Camp Receives Perfect Score in National Re-Accreditation Audit
Bell County Forestry Camp (BCFC) received a perfect score during its re-accreditation audit with the American Correctional Association (ACA). The 100 percent score is the highest the institution has ever received.
The head of the audit team praised the facility’s staff. “It is obvious teamwork functions very well here,” said James P. Dellow, a retired administrator and supervisor of the Statewide Operations Center for the Illinois Department of Corrections. “You have earned the score of 100% and you have earned our respect as both auditors and fellow corrections professionals.”
Commissioner LaDonna Thompson also congratulated the BCFC employees.
“I’m very proud of the staff at Bell County for achieving a perfect score. The accreditation process isn’t easy,” said Thompson. “It takes consistent diligence and hard work to meet the very tough standards that are in place for an ACA audit. It isn’t something that you rush through and prepare for just in time for the three-year audit either – it is an on-going process that takes the hard work of the entire staff on a daily basis.”
This was the eighth re-accreditation audit for Bell County Forestry Camp. The prison will receive its re-accreditation award during ACA’s winter conference in San Antonio, TX.
Bell County Forestry Camp is a minimum-security institution established in 1962 as a satellite of the Kentucky State Reformatory. The prison is situated approximately 14 miles southwest of Pineville and has an average daily inmate population of 296.
ACA consists of over 500 national standards that cover security, operational and programming aspects of a prison and require constant monitoring and quality control checks. Each prison is audited by ACA every three years and has an inter-departmental audit (Program Security Review) every year. Kentucky has been a member of ACA since the early 1980s.
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