Retired Lt. Col. Peter Grande, U.S. Disciplinary Barracks volunteer historian and former USDB chief of staff at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was presented the Walter Dunbar Accreditation Achievement Award by American Correctional Association President Denise M. Robinson and ACA Executive Director Robert L. Green during the American Correctional Association’s 154th Congress of Correction Aug. 16 in Nashville, Tennessee.
The ACA’s Congress of Correction had more than 4,000 registered attendee
s from all 50 states and more than 30 countries.
Grande received the Walter Dunbar Accreditation Achievement Award during the opening session in recognition of his leadership, support, commitment and contributions to the American Correctional Association’s accreditation program.
Grande thanked the association for the award, and he thanked all in the audience who were involved in the accreditation process because he said they now have better trained staff and a safer facility with improved conditions of confinement for those whom they are responsible to supervise.
Grande started with accreditation nearly 25 years ago when the USDB was undergoing its fourth reaccreditation. His qualifications and the passing of an exam earned him the status of Certified Correctional Executive. He was then selected, trained and certified as an auditor and participated in audits of county jails and state correctional facilities across the country.
More than a decade later, he was designated as an audit chairperson and started conducting international and federal audits. He is currently a commissioner on the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections, serving on panel hearings for facilities from Bahrain, Columbia, Costa Rica and Mexico. He also serves on the committee on performance-based standards responsible for deciding the standards for adult and juvenile residential community, detention and correctional facilities, parole boards, correctional training academies, central offices and correctional industries.
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