Corrections Tips

The Corrections1 Correctional Officers Tips section provides insight from Corrections1 columnists and members on the things Correctional Officers can do to increase safety and enhance productivity.

The tips and resources here—ranging from innovations in defensive tactics to new concealment techniques to off duty survival and dozens of other matters critical to correctional officers—are updated regularly. Every day, officers encounter new information that can help fellow officers, so we encourage you to submit your tips. Help us to help Correctional Officers better serve and protect our communities.

All Corrections Tips

The T-kick

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In this video tactical tip, Corrections1 Contributor Duane Wolfe examines an effective leg kick which officers can use against an offender who is attacking you.

Developing your ability to move offline

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In this video tactical tip, Diana Rathborne of the Minnesota Kali Group — alongside Peter Hetrick, also of the Minnesota Kali Group — shares a number of drills you can teach your officer to help th...

Mentoring and Mentorship

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Police1 Editor in Chief Doug Wylie talks with Dr. Matt Stiehm about the best ways to become a mentor and how to seek a mentor.

Reality Training: Controlling intense emotions during correctional incidents

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By C1 Staff A recent video out of Texas shows a correctional officer striking a female, handcuffed inmate. During the incident, the inmate was believed to be intoxicated and was belligerent with of...

Defending yourself when you are unarmed

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Dan Marcou speaks to the mindset and the need to train for the possibility you might one day need to defend yourself against an attack should you be unarmed.

How to deal with a bad day

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Coach Bob Lindsey of Verbal Defense & Influence talks with Police1 Editor In Chief Doug Wyllie about techniques officers can use to get through a bad moment or a bad day.

How to fall without being injured

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Dan Marcou explains and demonstrates how to fall without becoming injured. This helps enhance training, so that officers can take each other to the ground without injury.

Master the Hip Heist Technique

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When you're in a close quarter combat situation and find yourself on the ground, it's not always safe to immediately stand up. In this segment, Alex Sholomisky with Advanced Tactical Consultants d...

Reality Training: Inmate 'jail jumps' down flight of stairs

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By C1 Staff The video from the Huron County Jail shows inmate David Moser, 36, first appearing to visit with other inmates before jumping from the top of the mezzanine stairs to the floor below. It...

Escape from the mount using the 'back door escape'

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In this video tactical tip, Fletch Fuller of ISR Matrix International — alongside demonstration partner Ray Price, also of ISR Matrix International — addresses an issue that is not often covered in...

Cardiac Arrest Management: Compressions

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Adriane Stefansen, a paramedic and field training officer in Ventura County (CA), discusses how officers can manage cardiac arrest victims. This condition is fairly common, so it is important offic...

Soft Decentralization

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In this video tactical tip, Corrections1 contributor Dan Marcou shares a technique you can use to get a non-compliant subject into cuffs without taking them completely to the ground.

Reality Training: CO hits inmate in head 15 times

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By C1 Staff A video out of the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility shows a handcuffed inmate being struck by a correctional officer in the head fifteen times. The officer now under scrutiny for e...

Using pressure points for defense

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Learn the location of the mental feramin pressure point, its advantage and its practical use.

Escape from the mounted position

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In this video tactical tip, Fletch Fuller of ISR Matrix International — alongside demonstration partner Ray Price, also of ISR Matrix International — talks about how you can solve the problem of an...

Reality training: Ohio inmate attacks jail nurse

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By C1 Staff A nurse making routine rounds inside the Mahoning County Jail was attacked by an inmate. Joyce O’Hara was delivering medications inside the facility when Deron Williams assaulted her. A...

Palm heel strikes and punches (POSA)

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Learn the differences between palm heel strikes and punches and suggestions of when to use each.

Maine supermax prison cell extraction

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In this video, an inmate is forcibly removed from his cell and placed in a restraint chair. Check out the video and review the officers' actions for use in your own training.

Defending yourself when unarmed

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In this video tactical tip, Police1 Columnist Dan Marcou — alongside demonstration partner Doug Wyllie, Police1 Editor in Chief — shares some thoughts on his personal weapons defense system. In thi...

Elbow drills

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In this video tactical tip, Diana Rathborne of the Minnesota Kali Group — alongside demonstration partner Peter Hedrick of MPI Protective Services — demonstrates a set of drills you may use to deve...

Trap and stun technique

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In this video tactical tip, Joseph “Little Joe” Ferrera discusses and demonstrates two ways in which you can trap an adversary’s hand in high guard in such a way as to enable you to deliver a brach...

Using the element of surprise in your training drills

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In this video tactical tip, Tony Lambraia of Phoenix RBT Solutions and UTM — alongside demonstration partner Joe Overstreet — shares some thoughts on how to simulate in your training exercises and ...

Ground defense position

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In this video tactical tip, Fletch Fuller of ISR Matrix International — alongside demonstration partner Ray Price, also of ISR Matrix International — shares a simple maneuver to protect yourself sh...

Hip escape drill

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In this video tactical tip, Fletch Fuller of ISR Matrix International — alongside demonstration partner Ray Price, also of ISR Matrix International — shares a drill you can use to practice the ‘hip...

Practicing inside arm drag

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In this video tactical tip, Diana Rathborne alongside demonstration partner Peter Hedrick go over some defensive techniques based on the inside arm drag, as well as drills to practice it that you m...

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