Wendy Leach

Correctional Compliance

Wendy Leach, JD, is a Senior Consultant with The Moss Group, Inc. and has worked in numerous jurisdictions providing training and assistance in inmate and staff safety, conditions of confinement, PREA compliance, facility operations and system-wide policy revision. She has led multi-member teams in prison and jail assessments around the country, has been a faculty member at the national PREA Auditor Training, and has spoken at various summits and conferences nationally. Prior to joining The Moss Group, Leach was a prosecutor in Baltimore Maryland, managed a federal settlement agreement with the Department of Justice over conditions of confinement in three Maryland detention facilities, and later served as the statewide detention facility Director of Quality Improvement and as a corrections consultant. She is a Department of Justice-certified PREA auditor based in Chicago and a graduate of Albany Law School in Albany, New York.

Full list of Wendy Leach results

4 crucial steps correctional officers must take after a sexual assault
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As sexual assaults inside corrections facilities are unusual and shocking, COs can sometimes forget key parts of their job responsibilities
6 steps to guarantee correctional officer task completion
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Incident reviews and quality assurance can help prevent a problem from becoming a serious incident in a correctional facility
5 ways to improve PREA compliance in correctional facilities
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Getting staff to understand the Prison Rape Elimination Act and see it as valuable helps create a culture that supports compliance
4 reasons not to hire a correctional consultant
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Know you have options, and a correctional consultant is just one of them
5 reasons to hire a correctional consultant
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Only invest your facility's money in a firm that understands correctional staff and inmates
6 ways leaders can get input from line staff (and why it matters)
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There are simple ways leaders can make line staff feel included in a correctional facility's mission, activities and success