Dr. Deborah Shelton, professor emeritus at the University of Connecticut, is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, cofounder and first president of the American Correctional Nurses Association and founder of the Center 4 Correctional Nursing. Dr. Shelton is a self-employed expert with a focus on the correctional nursing workforce, education, and research. She is an experienced clinician and researcher; and has published over 150 articles, with an equal number of presentations nationally and internationally, and her work has been cited in the work of others nationally and internationally over 1,000 times.