North Carolina Jail Administrators’ Association

your newly elected President of the NCJAA I want to take the opportunity to say hello, thanks for your support to the Association and that I look forward to working and training with you in the future.

I just recently returned home from this year’s conference. What an exciting and informative time! From the surveys that were turned in it appears that the vast majority of attendees enjoyed the conference, the vendors and the first-class instructors we had once again this year.

We had another successful series of training sessions at the conference with approximately 250 in attendance representing more than half of the state’s counties. We also reached our limit in vendors with 63 booths displaying their wares. When you see any of the vendors that participated please thank them for their support.

Read the full October 2011 Newsletter

Never has there been a better time to learn how to do more with less.

As we try to shape our daily lives, we entrust our nation’s leaders to right the global economy back on a track toward stability and positive growth.

In the meantime,  legislators continue to trim budgets in order to gain ground on deficits.

We feel that impact on the job and at the home.

In the workplace, we strive to be mindful of excess all while keeping security our top priority. Safety remains Nos. 1, 2 and 3 on our list of duties. We also can practice avoiding waste by taking regular inventory of products we use and figuring out where these products are used the most. We all follow a quantitative approach to economics using inventory.

There are excellent qualitative methods of conservation, too. First, figure out ways to strengthen lines of communication to all members of your division. Communication leads to camaraderie, which leads to a closer group in a family-like atmosphere.

Read the full June 2011 Newsletter

Hello, everyone! After a long, cold winter, I’m sure many of us are ready for the warmer weather that spring will bring. Spring gives us all a new hope on the year as the trees turn green and the flowers begin to bloom. There’s something comforting about the newness of spring.

Spring, in turn, brings with it change. Some change is welcomed, while other forms might be just plain difficult.

Certainly, many of us enjoy being able to leave the winter coat at home, trade in the windshield scraper for an umbrella and take a walk outdoors without returning with numb fingers.

We all like how moods of the folks around us tend to become more lively, like our spirits are being warmed by a closer sun. Of course, the attitudes of others tend to reflect how we feel about our own situation, so we feel that cheer of spring within ourselves, too.

Read the full March 2011 Newsletter

Hello everyone! Thank you very much for attending the conference in September in Greensboro. I enjoyed the pleasure of speaking with many of you in person.

As you might already know, the Board of Directors has decided to keep me on as the NCJAA President for the 2010-2011 year.

For those of you who do not know me, my name is Wendell Sain. I am a Jail Administrator from the Davie County Detention Center in Mocksville. I will continue to serve you in anyway possible.

As your President, I am open for any ideas or suggestions that you might have that will make our association better equipped to serve the members and detention centers across the state.

Read the full November 2010 Newsletter