The 2010 Susan M. Hunter Scholarship is now available!

The 2010 Susan M. Hunter Scholarship is now open and will remain open through March 31, 2010. By clicking the link below, you will be taken to the Application site to complete the online application. To help you properly complete the scholarship application, please download the Scholarship Eligibility Requirements, a copy of the Application Form, and the Scholarship Guidelines.

Please review the copy of the application provided first and collect the data that you will need to complete your submission. You will not be able to save your data and reenter your application online to continue the process once you leave the site. If you leave the site you must complete a new application.

Scholarship winners will be notified beginning July 15, 2010.

Scholarship Eligibility Requirements

Online Application

Scholarship Guidelines

»»» Link to the online application: CLICK HERE

The Association of State Correctional Administrators began originally in 1970 as a group of prison directors who shared issues with one another during the annual American Correctional Association meetings.  The Association (ASCA) was formally organized, staffed, and incorporated as a New York State not-for-profit corporation in 1985. It has been designated a tax-exempt entity by the IRS.

ASCA is dedicated to the improvement of correctional services and practices through promoting and facilitating:

• The exchange of ideas and philosophies at the top administrative level of correctional planning and policy-making;
• The advancement of correctional techniques, particularly in the areas of development, design of correctional facilities, staff training, and correctional management facilities;
• Public support for, and understanding of, the criminal justice system with particular emphasis on the corrections function and the interest and acceptance by the community of its responsibility for the prevention of delinquency and the reintegration of persons who have come into conflict with the law;
• Research in correctional practices, anti-social behavior, causes of crime and delinquency and cooperation in such research;
• The development and application of correctional standards and accreditation;
• The fostering of legislative and other measures designed to accomplish this objective;
• The exchange of uniform correctional performance based data among its member agencies for the purposes of perspective and comparisons at facility and agency levels; and
• The exchange of information with international agencies and organizations interested in correctional programs, and the undertaking of such work and projects of an allied character, as may be authorized by the membership.