Phebia Moreland serves the National PREA Resource Center as a Program Director for the Training and Support Division. Prior to the PRC, Phebia served as the PREA director, Contract Compliance, at The GEO Group, Inc. for six years. In this role, she was responsible for PREA oversight for more than 100 facilities in U.S. Corrections & Detention, Residential Reentry Centers, and Youth Services. She directly managed the company’s overall effort to comply with the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security standards to prevent incidents; worked with facilities when incidents occurred; developed policies; and implemented best practices in training, identification, investigations, treatment, and reporting.
Phebia has been a certified PREA auditor since July 2015. She served briefly as the quality assurance/accreditation manager at Community Education Centers. Prior to this role, she spent 20 years at the Atlanta Department of Corrections serving in various assignments ranging from correctional officer, sergeant, and lieutenant/accreditation manager. Phebia received her Bachelor of Science in criminal justice from Georgia State University.