Barbara H. Zaitzow attended the American Correctional Association (ACA) meeting in Grapevine, Texas, (Jan. 12-15) where she organized, moderated, and served as a speaker for the workshop “Wrongful Convictions: Taking Action to Correct Injustice,” along with other representatives of the Texas Innocence Project.

Zaitzow, who serves as the faculty-advisor for the Appalachian Student Chapter of the American Correctional Association (ASCACA), took three recent Appalachian graduates - Angela Shook (criminal justice), Rachel Stanton (psychology) and Jason Radford (philosophy and interdisciplinary studies) - to the ACA meeting where they participated in a variety of corrections-related events, including workshops, a prison tour, and competing in the national Student Poster competition. Radford shared his paper, “Gangs in Prison: An Institutional Approach,” and won first place in the undergraduate competition. All of the student participants were recognized at a special reception held in their honor. For further information about the ASCACA and future activities, contact Zaitzow at zaitzowbh@appstate.edu.

Barbara H. Zaitzow also co-authored an article titled “Life After ‘Life’: Wrongly Convicted But Never Truly Free” in the most recent issue of Justice Policy Journal (Vol. 4, No. 2):1-29, which is available at http://www.cjcj.org/jpj/index.php