Harley G. Lappin

Harley Lappin joined CoreCivic's Board of Directors in January 2018, and has also been employed at CoreCivic as a special operations advisor to the leadership since January 2018. Lappin served as CoreCivic's executive vice president and chief corrections officer from 2011 until his retirement from such position on January 1, 2018. Prior to joining CoreCivic in 2011, Lappin served from 2003 to 2011 as director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). As director of the BOP, Lappin had oversight and management responsibility for 116 federal prisons, 14 private contract facilities and more than 250 contracts for community corrections facilities, in total managing more than 38,000 employees. Lappin has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the Associate Warden of the Year award for the BOP’s South Central Region (1992); the BOP’s Excellence in Prison Management Award (2000); the Attorney General’s Award for Excellence in Management (2001); and the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive (2004). In 2010, he received the American Correctional Association’s (ACA) E.R. Cass Award for Correctional Achievement, the highest honor bestowed by that organization. In 2015, Lappin received the Louie L. Wainwright Award from the Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA). Lappin has served as chair of the Standards Committee of the ACA, is a former board member of both the National Institute of Corrections and the Federal Prison Industry Board, and a former chair of the Prison Industry Committee of ASCA. Lappin holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University and a master’s degree in criminal justice from Kent State University.