CERT and Emergency Preparedness
CERT and Emergency Preparedness are critical components of safety and response strategies within correctional facilities. CERT, or Correctional Emergency Response Team, is vital in managing riots, natural disasters, and other emergencies. This section provides articles on the training, deployment, and effectiveness of CERT teams and broader emergency preparedness strategies tailored to the correctional environment. Understanding CERT and Emergency Preparedness is essential for ensuring the safety of staff, inmates, and the facility during emergencies. For related information, explore resources on Correctional Management in correctional settings.
State troopers leading search for Danelo Cavalcante are confident “we will contain him and we will capture him”
According to the report, “in addition to any potential human failures, staffing shortages and pressures, policy deficiencies and ambiguities, and historical internal practices were chief contributing factors”
Union president for COs jokes that “everything runs off duct tape and band-aids” in the understaffed prison with failing infrastructure
Correctional breachers know hardened prison structures require mechanical tools that are not often used in the residential breaching world
The standoff began when the inmate grabbed a gun from a correctional officer at the hospital
Saundra Floyd instead urged Gov. John Carney to respond to her family’s demands for the autopsy report on Steven Floyd and details on how he died
James Bigby is set to be executed for two of the Christmas Eve 1987 killings: the fatal shooting of Michael Trekell and suffocation of Trekell’s 4-month-old son Jayson
Jason Patrick and Darryl Thorn face up to six years in prison
At one point Gustavo Zavala-Garcia could be seen kicking and punching firefighters who attempted to bring him down
The group is calling for more training and funding for staff and for lawmakers to address prison overcrowding
Gov. John Carney insisted he’d figure out a way to improve the state’s prison system after the death of Sgt. Steven Floyd
A jury in Oregon in October acquitted seven people of federal conspiracy and weapon charges in an occupation of a federal wildlife refuge
A union leader said state officials have been ignoring chronic staffing shortages that put prison employees at greater risk for attacks
Delaware Gov. John Carney called the situation “torturous” and promised a full investigation
The correctional officer who died was Sgt. Steven Floyd, who had been with the agency for 16 years
The hostage situation drew dozens of officers and law enforcement vehicles to the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center and prompted a statewide lockdown of all prisons
Jake Childers was fatally shot after an exchange of gunfire with the SWAT team
A second fugitive inmate who escaped last week from a county jail in California by rappelling down with a bedsheet was re-arrested Wednesday
The defense is concerned about seating an impartial jury due to the lack of jurors who have not heard of the case. (AP File Photo)
There are more than a dozen other state prisons with fire crews that help local city and county fire departments
911 caller reports active shooter, further investigation leads to false alarm
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The inmate’s lawyer said he was unable to stand following a seizure and fall in March of last year, prior to the cell extraction
28-year-old Haraesheo Rice was injured in a confrontation with officers inside the Huntsville facility
According to the suit, Kenneth Christopher Lucas yelled, “I’m going to pass out!” as officers sat on top of him while he laid face down on his stomach
William Scott Pettigrew was moved after he tore apart a vent cover in order to use a metal piece to scrape away mortar between cinder blocks in his cell
An internal investigation into the cell extraction of Louis Flack found that jail officers violated the department’s use-of-force policy
Emergency personnel were summoned after a corrections officer discovered a white powder in a letter
James Bailey surrendered to the SWAT team after barricading himself inside a Westside home for several hours
Incident was handled between city utilities, Topeka and Shawnee County emergency management staff and jail crew without use of overtime or the transferring of inmates to another facility
Six detention officers have completed a Special Operations Response Training Team program that was two years in the making
We must evaluate the change in our hostage negotiation policy
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