exv10w17






Exhibit 10.17




America Service Group Inc. (the “Company”)




Summary of 2010 Director and Executive Officer Compensation




	I.	 	DIRECTOR COMPENSATION. Directors who are employees of, or paid consultants to, the
Company do not receive additional compensation for serving as directors of the Company. The
following table sets forth current rates of cash compensation for the Company’s
non-employee directors.





	 	 	 	 	 
	Non-Executive Chairman of the Board 
	 	$	144,000	*
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Annual retainer
	 	$	30,000	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Board meeting attendance fee
	 	$	1,500	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Audit Committee Chair annual retainer
	 	$	15,000	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Audit Committee meeting fee for all Audit Committee
meetings held on a date other than a Board meeting date
	 	$	2,500	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee Chair,
Incentive Stock and Compensation Committee Chair and
Ethics and Quality Assurance Committee Chair annual
retainer
	 	$	5,000	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Committee meeting fee for all committee meetings other
than Audit Committee held on a date other than a Board
meeting date
	 	$	1,000	 








 




			
	*	 	On January 27, 2009, the Board unanimously elected Richard D.
Wright as its Non-Executive Chairman of the Board. In connection with Mr.
Wright’s service to the Company as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, Mr.
Wright will be paid a monthly fee of $12,000, effective February 1, 2009. Mr.
Wright will receive no additional cash compensation from the Company for his
service on any committees of the Board or his attendance at any meetings of the
Board and any committees thereof. In addition, the Board and the Incentive
Stock and Compensation Committee of the Board approved a grant of 3,000 shares
of restricted common stock of the Company to Mr. Wright (the “Stock Award”)
pursuant to the Company’s Amended and Restated 1999 Incentive Stock Plan. The
Stock Award has a grant date of January 27, 2009 and will vest one third on
each of the first, second and third anniversaries of the grant date.






     The Board compensation program provides that each new Director (as defined by the 2009
Equity Incentive Plan) upon election to the Board receive 10,000 restricted shares of the
Company’s common stock. Under the terms of the restricted shares, each new Director shall
have the right, among other rights, to receive cash dividends on all of the shares and to
vote such shares until the Director’s right to such shares is forfeited of becomes
nonforfeitable. These shares become nonforfeitable in equal annual installments over four
years beginning on the first anniversary of the date the shares are issued.




     In addition, the Board compensation program provides that each non-employee director
will receive 3,000 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock on an annual basis. Each
non-employee director shall have the right, among other rights, to receive cash dividends on
all of these shares and to vote such shares until the non-employee director’s right to such
shares is forfeited or becomes nonforfeitable. These shares become nonforfeitable in equal
annual installments over three years beginning on the first anniversary of the date the
shares are issued.



 









 






	II.	 	EXECUTIVE OFFICER COMPENSATION. The following table sets forth the current
annual base salaries provided to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and most highly
compensated executive officers.





	 	 	 	 	 
	Executive Officer	 	Current Salary
	 
	 	 	 	 
	Richard Hallworth
	 	$	500,000	 
	Michael W. Taylor
	 	 	385,000	 
	Dr. Carl J. Keldie
	 	 	340,684	 
	Lawrence H. Pomeroy
	 	 	268,148	 
	T. Scott Hoffman
	 	 	234,365	 






          In addition to their base salaries, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and most highly
compensated executive officers are also eligible to:





	 	•	 	receive cash bonuses under the Company’s Annual Incentive Compensation Plan;
	 
	 	•	 	participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program, which currently involves the
award of stock options or restricted stock pursuant to the Company’s 2009 Equity Incentive
Plan; and
	 
	 	•	 	participate in the Company’s broad-based benefit programs generally available to its
salaried employees, including health, disability and life insurance programs, 401(k) Plan
and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.