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• What every agency needs in a social media recruitment plan

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  Upgrade your agency’s social media game and use it to recruit women and diverse applicants

• When political discourse follows you to work

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  Correctional officers must understand how inmates weaponize hot-button topics

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• Personalizing communications in corrections

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  Communicating with inmates as if they are objects will lead to negative interactions

• What does it mean when an inmate won't make eye contact?

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  An inmate's lack of eye contact could have many different motivations. In this tip, risk management expert and Lexipol co-founder Gordon Graham reveals how to use all of your senses to read an inmate's body language to protect yourself and others. 

  Get more tips from Gordon here.

• Ga. county's experience shows perils of ransomware

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  When hackers hold computer systems hostage, police and corrections officers have to manage the fallout without the help of technology

• How a dynamic response mindset improves correctional officer safety

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  Deploying multiple skills at the same time helps correctional professionals be more effective in an ever-changing environment

• How control officers can lower inmate anxiety and increase facility safety

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  Positive communication from the control tower can set the tone for the rest of the facility

• How to handle swearing in the medical clinic

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  Developing a policy to prevent inmates swearing in front of medical personnel aids safety and security in the facility

• Iowa sheriff won't honor neighboring town's arrests

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  The sheriff says he can't rely on the integrity of LEOs in their neighboring town and will not book any suspects whom they arrest for the foreseeable future

• Conn. considers making phone calls free for prisoners

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  The state would be following the lead of New York City, which began allowing free phone calls earlier this month

• Jury awards former prison warden $438K in retaliation case

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  A jury found that supervisors retaliated against the warden for defending a female subordinate who complained about sexual harassment

• Ark. COs keep jobs after #FeelingCute posts

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  Last month, four Texas COs were fired and two resigned after authorities found their posts inappropriate

• NYC becomes 1st major US city to make jail phone calls free

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  Mayor Bill de Blasio said that the city has fully implemented a law passed by the City Council to eliminate fees for inmate phone calls

• 4 Texas COs fired, 2 resign after #FeelingCute challenge photos spark probe

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  After spotting the images on a then-open officers' Facebook group, inmate families began emailing department officials with screenshots, demanding action

• Social posts of #FeelingCuteChallenge have COs under fire

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  The challenge has drawn scrutiny to some government employees who’ve allegedly made insensitive remarks

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