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The importance of inmate classification

Performing the classification process early, and continuously, helps ensure a safe and secure facility

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Classification is intended to identify security and health issues by using a screening instrument. Performing the classification process early, and continuously, helps ensure a safe and secure facility. In this tip, risk management expert and Lexipol co-founder Gordon Graham outlines how to effectively perform this process.

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Gordon Graham has been actively involved in law enforcement since 1973. He spent nearly 10 years as a very active motorcycle officer while also attending Cal State Long Beach to achieve his teaching credential, USC to do his graduate work in Safety and Systems Management with an emphasis on Risk Management, and Western State University to obtain his law degree. In 1982 he was promoted to sergeant and also admitted to the California State Bar and immediately opened his law offices in Los Angeles.
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