Charley B. Flint, Ph.D.
An activist and scholar, Charley is a Professor of Sociology at William Paterson University where she is also coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program. She is an active scholar in her field, having published in scholarly journals, given papers at professional meetings and other conference, been interviewed on various television and radio programs as well as by several newspapers, and is involved in many professional and community organizations. She is currently president of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Association on Corrections and past treasurer of the New Jersey Association of Criminal Justice Educators.

Oscar Aviles, C.P.M., C.J.M., C.C.E.

Oscar Aviles has served in the Hudson County Department of Corrections since 1989, where he began his career as a Corrections Officer, served as Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain, Deputy Warden, Deputy Director, and was appointed to Director in 2004. As head of the Hudson County Department of Corrections and its 700 sworn officers and professional staff, he is responsible for a $64,000,000.00 budget. Director Aviles is responsible for the 2340 bed correctional adult facility, in addition to the 132 bed Hudson County Juvenile Detention Center. 

Director Aviles has earned the designations of Certified Public Manager from the State of New Jersey Human Resource Development Institute, Certified Jail Manager from the American Jail Association, and Certified Corrections Executive from the American Corrections Association.      

He began serving on the executive board of the New Jersey County Jail Wardens Association in 2007 and is now serving as president, and its representative as commissioner on the New Jersey Police Training Commission. His professional memberships also include the American Jail Association, American Correctional Association, and U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Corrections Large Jail Network.

Joseph Bondiskey

Joseph Bondiskey has served with the Atlantic County Department of Public Safety since 1990. Beginning his career as a Corrections Officer he has risen through the ranks to attain the New Jersey Civil Service Commission permanent rank/title of Warden, and is the chief law enforcement officer for his department. In Warden Bondiskeys' current role he is responsible for the care of more than 800 incarcerated inmates, 150 DRP/SLAP and Home Electronic Detention System inmates, supervision of over 250 sworn and unsworn employees, management of the Gerard L. Gormley Justice Facility and administration of a $24,000,000. budget.  He is a graduate of the prestigious West Point Command and Leadership Program, sponsored by the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police, and is in the process of earning the title of Certified Public Manager with the State of New Jersey Human Resource Development Institute.  Warden Bondiskey is a member of the New Jersey County Jail Wardens Association and currently serves on the Executive Board as Treasurer. His professional memberships also include the Atlantic County Association of Chiefs of Police, Atlantic County Criminal Justice Advisory Board, American Correctional Association, American Jail Association, and U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Corrections Large Jail Network.

William T. Curry

William Curry is currently Deputy Executive Director for the New Jersey State Parole Board. As a member of the executive team, Bill is involved with operational, administrative and policy-making activities to provide supervision and services for 15,000 parolees. His career in the field of criminal justice spans 25 years, starting first as an educator working with juveniles offenders in secure institutional settings. Bill's experience in both the public and private sectors includes adult and juvenile offenders, parole management, community-based residential and day treatment facilities, various levels of secure institutions, faith-based groups, law enforcement agencies, schools, local municipalities, judiciary and union representatives.

Ralph Fretz, Ph.D.
Ralph Fretz is a Licensed Psychologist who is employed as the Corporate Director of Assessment and Research for Community Education Centers. Dr. Fretz earned a Ph.D. from Seton Hall School of Professional Psychology.

Dr. Fretz's professional experience includes State Hospitals, Mental Health Clinics, Child Study Teams, and Correctional Treatment Services. Dr. Fretz is a national and international presenter. His publications include outcome research articles with the most recent publication listed in the March/April 2008 edition of Corrections Compendium. Dr. Fretz has attained the level of Master trainer for the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R) and the LS/CMI.

Llionel Wayne Henderson

Llionel Wayne Henderson is the newly appointed Juvenile Justice Commission Superintendent for the New Jersey Training School. He comes to the Training School with more than 20 years of experience in the field of corrections and juvenile detention. Prior to joining the training school, Llionel Henderson served as the Superintendent of the Mercer County Youth Detention Facility. He has also served as the Assistant Superintendent for the State of Delaware, Department of Services for Children (Ferris School) and as a private program consultant with Westover Job Corp Center. Lionel holds a B.A. degree from Salisbury State University with a concentration in Liberal Studies and minor study in Biology, Sociology, African Studies and Psychology. His educational background and front-line experience has contributed to his special interest in vulnerable populations. Notably, he has distinguished himself through his work as the Chairperson for the Mercer County over-representation of Minority Youth Commission.  Llionel Henderson has further demonstrated his dedication to progressive change through his professional and avocational interests as the Assistant Director of Project Stay Free – a Delaware Home Detention Program and as the Youth Activities coordinator for the Walnut Street YMCA. He has prior experience with the American Correctional Association’s Standards and Accreditation procedures.  Llionel Wayne Henderson has a long history of demonstrated commitment to responsible correctional leadership.

Gary J. Hilton
Gary J. Hilton's distinguished career in Corrections has spanned over 37 years. He is a proven leader, with strong operations and executive management skills. Mr. Hilton has served as an expert witness, trainer, lecturer and consultant to a wide range of public, judicial and private entities, both nationally and abroad. He has also provided technical consultation and training services on behalf of the National Institute of Corrections.

In April of 1998, Mr. Hilton concluded a 33-year career with the New Jersey Department of Corrections, having served as Warden of the State's maximum-security prison, Superintendent of the adult prison for women, and for over 17 years as Assistant Commissioner for Operations, Chief of Staff and Acting Commissioner.

Prior to his retirement from public service in July 2002, Mr. Hilton was Director of Corrections and Youth Services for Monmouth County, New Jersey. During his tenure, he spearheaded the successful national accreditation of the central facility. Mr. Hilton is a charter member of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Correctional Association and currently serves as the organization's First Vice President. He has overseen more than $850 million in facility construction and renovations. He has also been the recipient of numerous awards and commendations from various professional and governmental organizations. Currently, Mr. Hilton is founder and president of Paige Plus LLC, a comprehensive correctional service and consulting company.

Roger Lichtman, AIA
Roger Lichtman, a registered architect, is no stranger to the criminal justice design process. Prior to establishing The Lichtman Associates, P.C. in Princeton, New Jersey in 1992, Mr. Lichtman was associated with three nationally known design firms. His professional experience, in over twenty-five years of dedication to the criminal justice design field, encompasses all aspects of correctional facility planning and design, on both new construction and renovation/rehabilitation projects.

Mr. Lichtman has presented over thirty lectures and has authored numerous articles on secure design and construction. In addition to working throughout the country, most recently, Mr. Lichtman directed a team that worked on Saipan, CNMI to assist in the development of a criminal justice system. This included the planning, design and construction of a jail, prison, juvenile facility and immigration facility as well as police holding facilities on several outlying islands.

Patti Loukides, MSW, LCSW
Patti Loukides is beginning her second year as a NJACA Board Member. Mrs. Loukides was recently appointed to the National ACA’s Women Working in Corrections Committee. She has worked in both Adult and Juvenile Corrections. A native Virginian, Mrs. Loukides began a Social Work career in 1974 after graduating from Lynchburg College. She was employed as a Psychiatric Social Worker in a secure Unit in one of the East Coast’s largest Psychiatric Hospitals located in Lynchburg, Virginia. She received a Master’s in Social Work Degree in 1993 from Virginia Commonwealth University. Mrs. Loukides worked as a Mental Health Therapist and Substance Abuse Counselor and coordinated treatment and counseling services in two adult corrections facilities in Northern Virginia for ten years prior to moving to New Jersey. Mrs. Loukides was employed as a Social Worker at the NJ Department of Corrections’ Community Programs Division in January 1998 and in 2001 accepted a promotional opportunity and became the Principal Community Programs Specialist at the NJ Juvenile Justice Commission. She accepted a promotional opportunity in 2007 to Chief, Contract Administration with the NJ State Parole Board’s Community Programs Division. In August 2008, Governor Corzine appointed Mrs. Loukides to her first of 2 terms as Temporary State Parole Board Panel Member. Since ending her second term earlier this year Mrs. Loukides has coordinated the implementation of a pilot program that introduces the nationally recognized Structured Assessment of Violent Risk in Youth (SAVRY) to assist the Juvenile Panel members during parole reviews. Mrs. Loukides provides assistance in grant writing, contract management and is currently coordinating the staff development training series for Board Members and other civilian staff. Mrs. Loukides is an instructor at the Officer’s Training Academy and teaches part time in the Masters of Administrative Science Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She has a private practice in Trenton. She is married and has five adult children. In her free time she is a marathon coach with the Leukemia Lymphoma Society’s Team In Training.

Patricia McKernan, MSW, LSW, Recording Secretary
Pat McKernan serves as a Chief Operating Officer for Volunteers of America Delaware Valley. Pat came to Volunteers of America as a Facility Director of a residential program for men in 1996. She was promoted through the agency and her duties include the supervision of Corrections Services and the Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities Divisions as well as the Administrative Divisions supporting agency operations. Founded in 1896, Volunteers of America is one of the largest and most diversified faith based not-for-profit human service agencies in the country. The Delaware Valley branch of Volunteers of America provides a wide variety of services and interventions for persons experiencing homelessness, seeking permanent housing, struggling with addictive behavior, chronic mental illness, as well as persons returning to society from the criminal justice system. Volunteers of America currently operates 43 programs in the Delaware Valley and serves more than 13,000 people per year. The mission of the Corrections Services Division is to provide evidence-based interventions to offenders in an effort to reduce their risk of recidivism and promote public safety.

Pat McKernan has been a social worker in Camden City since 1990. She is currently the Vice President of the Coalition of Community Corrections Providers of New Jersey. Pat was President of the Coalition for the Community Corrections Providers of New Jersey from 2005 to 2009 after serving as Treasurer for four years. She is a Regional Vice President of the International Community Corrections Association and a 2006 Leadership New Jersey Graduate. She has promoted the professional development of corrections practitioners through her efforts in coordinating the 2005 ICCA conference in Atlantic City NJ, the International Association of Re-entry’s Second Working Summit in 2007 in Baltimore MD, and the Coalition of Community Corrections Providers of NJ’s Re-entry Conference in 2007. Pat has presented to US Senate staffers regarding the importance of the Second Chance Act in 2005 and plays an active role in the NJ’s Second Chance Campaign. She has been a certified Field Instructor for Rutgers University School of Social Work since 1998 and a certified trainer for Reasoning and Rehabilitation Cognitive Skills Training Program for Offenders since 1999. Pat is a licensed Social Worker who received her Bachelor of Arts from Trenton State College in Psychology and Sociology and her Masters in Social Work from Rutgers University.

Mark A. O'Sullivan, MS, LPC
With over 20 years of experience as a forensic mental health professional, Mark's experience spans the criminal justice (courts, corrections, and parole) and community mental health (children and families) arenas. His focus has been on offender evaluation and treatment; sex offender risk assessment; law enforcement officer evaluation (pre-employment, firearms recertification); staff development and training; program, practice, and policy development and evaluation; RFP development and proposal evaluation; quality control; and contract compliance.

Currently employed by the State Parole Board, prior appointments include the Professional Counselor Examiners Committee (Department of Law and Public Safety); the Governor’s Task Force on Mental Health (Parole Board Liaison); the Mental Health and Corrections Project Advisory Committee (Greater Trenton Behavioral HealthCare); and the Best Practices Committee for Sexually Violent Predators (Department of Human Services).

Mark earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology, and has completed doctoral coursework in Psychology and Organizational Systems. He is licensed as a Professional Counselor in New Jersey and as a Psychologist in Pennsylvania.

John W. Piercy, III
John began his career in Corrections in 2000 as a Jail Officer at the Riverside Regional Jail in Hopewell, VA. There, he was promoted to Work Release Coordinator, and then promoted to the Training and Accreditation Department. During his time at RRJ, he received eleven commendations, was a well respected Officer, and was a member of the RRJ Jail Industries Committee, the RRJ Expansion Committee, and the RRJ Accreditation Team. John earned national accreditation in 2002 with the American Correctional Association, becoming the first nationally Certified Corrections Professional (Officer) in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

In 2006, John moved to the State of New Jersey, where he obtained employment with the New Jersey Department of Corrections as a Social Worker 2 at Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in Yardville, NJ. In doing this, he became the first nationally Certified Corrections Professional (Officer) in the State of New Jersey. Thirteen months later, he was promoted to Assistant Social Work Supervisor within the Department’s Office of Transitional Services, in charge of the Successful Transition and Reentry Series (S.T.A.R.S.) Program, which received the Governor’s Best of the Best Award in May of 2009. He still holds this position.

He is a graduate of Virginia State University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and currently pursuing a Masters in Criminal Justice from Ashworth University. He is also a member of the American Correctional Association, American Jail Association, Virginia Correctional Association, the New Jersey Chapter of the American Correctional Association (Board member), Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and the Willingboro Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #38.

William F. Plantier
William Plantier began his career as a Social Worker in 1973 at the then Rahway State Prison. After running the Outpatient Department at Menlo Park Diagnostic, he left to take a position at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center when it opened in 1976. He rose through the ranks there, making Assistant Superintendent in 1984 and Administrator in 1990, a position he held for ten yeas. In 2000, he was appointed to his current position as Director in the Division of Operations for the N.J. Department of Corrections.

Matthew J. Sheridan, Ed.D.
Matt Sheridan has over 37 years of progressively responsible experience in the criminal justice field. Core areas of expertise include administration in Juvenile Justice, corrections, correctional education, the courts, parole and probation. Management experience includes institutions, community residential and day treatment, and private providers. He has designed training curriculum that prepares staff for tasks related to direct service and that respond to identified need when improvement is warranted. He has shown expertise in improving operational efficiency by brining systems into compliance with state and federal standards. matt emphasizes staff continuing education for personal growth and better job performance and utilizing evidence based research on risk assessment to improve correctional effectiveness and successful reentry.

Eric Spierer

Eric Spierer currently serves as a Shift Commander at the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission’s Johnstone Campus in Bordentown, New Jersey. Since joining the Juvenile Justice Commission in 1997, he has served as a Correction Officer and Correction Lieutenant at the New Jersey Training School in Monroe Township and as a Correction Sergeant and Correction Lieutenant at the Johnstone Campus. From 1991 to 2008, he worked in Emergency Medical Services, as an Emergency Medical Technician and an Emergency Dispatcher, in volunteer and paid capacities. He maintains his Emergency Medical Technician Certification. Eric joined the New Jersey Chapter of the American Correctional Association in 1997 while still a Correction Officer Recruit and has attended every annual NJACA conference held since then. He volunteers his spare time as a youth mentor for Middlesex County’s Project S.P.A.N. (Supportive Parent Aide Network). In 2008, he was presented with the President’s Volunteer Service Award and the United Way of Central Jersey’s Hometown Hero’s Award for his efforts as a volunteer youth mentor. Lt. Spierer is currently certified by the Police Training Commission as an instructor and has taught at several J.J.C. Correction Officer Recruit classes in Sea Girt, New Jersey. Eric is also a member of the Middle Atlantic States Correctional Association as well as several other field-related professional associations.

Steve Troyanovich, MS
Steve Troyanovich is currently the Education Youth Advocate for the New Jersey Juvenile Justice Commission's new Division of Juvenile Parole and Transitional Services. He has also served as the Juvenile Justice Commission's Director of Education. Steve has a varied correctional background given his 29 + years of experience within the New Jersey criminal justice system. He is presently a member of the NJACA Board of Directors and is also the editor of the New Jersey Corrections Quarterly. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism and a Master's Degree in Corrections. In addition to current NJACA duties, he has worked on ACA accreditation standards and literacy projects. He remains committed to making the NJACA an organization of vigorous divergent viewpoints in service to both the individual and the community.