About - One Voice

One Voice United’s mission is to provide a platform for all correctional professionals to have their voices heard, their concerns addressed and their ideas and solutions included in ongoing debates over reforming our correctional system.

As the saying goes, “If you aren’t at the table, you’re on the menu.” That’s why One Voice United brings corrections officers and frontline professionals straight into the heart of every conversation.

By building bridges and bringing together a broad range of stakeholders, we are cultivating a unified approach to the policies, programs, and narratives that define corrections and criminal justice reform.

Through broad collaboration, we are working to unearth common ground solutions that cut across political divides and respond to the real problems that effective and sustainable reform must address.

This starts by shifting the conversation from one that perpetuates tension between corrections officers, administrators, l staff, incarcerated individuals and budget constraints to one that is centered on protecting the safety and interests of all who are impacted by the corrections system.

We work with partner organizations nationwide to gather frontline feedback on staffing, training, infrastructure, and mental-health support, helping us transform anecdote into evidence so we can provide decision-makers a clear roadmap of where resources and policy adjustments are needed and where they can have the greatest impact.

Armed with these insights, we convene working groups of frontline staff and union leaders to tackle issues of importance and pilot initiatives aimed at improving work conditions.

Through OVU programs and events, frontline expertise is gathered, refined, and transformed into policy briefs, white papers, op-eds, and advocacy campaigns that shift the narrative around corrections from crisis-driven headlines to solutions that drive real change.

Reform doesn’t end when a new policy is passed, it must be evaluated, reviewed and adapted as times and circumstances change. Through our work in multiple states, we are able to maintain lines of communication, track implementation, determine success, identify issues of concern, and evaluate what’s working and what’s not on a broad scale.