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Top 5 corrections videos from January 2011

This January, CorrectionsVideo witnessed the birth of a corrections juggernaut, with the user-uploaded video, “So you want to be a CO” garnering an astronomical amount of user views.

Other top videos this month include two training spots by resident corrections expert Gary Klugiewicz, a hilarious collection of goofy mug shots, and a CCTV video of a Florida deputy wrestling an inmate to the ground.

So, you want to be a corrections officer?

This video should be seen by every officer walking the corrections beat. It takes a hard, humorous, look into the brutal, bureaucratic, and sometime grim work officers do, day in, day out.

Ethical Interventions

Gary Klugiewicz examines an incident that occurred in Ohio where an officer assaulted an inmate in a spontaneous rage. Gary advises that having your fellow officers’ backs means more than just phsyical protection.

Top mug shots of 2010

Have you seen this video yet? It catalogs the most absurd, hilarious, and slightly sad mug shots of 2010. The gentleman to the left swallowed a bag of cocaine before getting his picture taken.

The art of asking questions

Gary Klugiewicz demonstrates how asking questions, instead of making demands, gives corrections officers a strategic advantage over inmates.

Fla. deputy breaks leg while stopping fight

Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office detention deputy Greg Brown, 35, was seriously injured while attempting to break up a fight between two inmates at the Falkenburg Road Jail. Watch for the move that did the damage.