Officer Safety
Officer Safety is a critical concern within correctional facilities, focusing on protecting staff from physical harm and ensuring a secure working environment. This directory provides articles and resources on best practices, training, and equipment that enhance the safety of correctional officers. Understanding the importance of officer safety helps develop strategies to mitigate risks and respond effectively to threats. For further insights, explore our section on Defensive Tactics.
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If you want to survive in this world, you have to know your vulnerabilities and you have to be willing to listen to others who have walked the walk before you
The deadly uprisings at Attica, New Mexico State Penitentiary and Lucasville still hold critical lessons for correctional safety, staffing, communication and crisis response
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One of the COs was choked during the assault and lost consciousness for 24 minutes
The CO was terminated in 2020 after complaining about harassment, humiliation and sexual misconduct toward women staff
“We are concerned for the interim sheriff’s health, wellbeing, and ability to perform his required duties”
Lawsuit contends the former warden was “grossly negligent” for not providing a safe work environment, sufficient staffing, or adequate safety protocols
The two inmates were attempting to kill another prisoner with makeshift weapons
Michigan DOC officials are investigating how two inmates obtained cellphones and posted a video filmed in their cell to YouTube
Are you situationally aware enough to know if this is happening to you or one of your colleagues?
Sgt. Mark Baserman, 60, died of blunt force trauma less than two weeks after he was assaulted by an inmate
The inmate also threatened to kill or injure five other COs and a nurse who checked him out
The CO was struck in the head with a tray after entering the inmate’s cell to stop him from cutting his left arm
After striking the deputy in the head and face with the phone, the inmate then tried to strangle the deputy with the phone cord
When the alarm is sounded, there is an impulse to drop everything and respond at warp speed, but there must be some type of structure to the response
As of Nov. 1, the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision reported 1,231 assaults on staff
Stacy George, who ran for governor in 2014 and 2022, compared Alabama prisons to a “third world country with a concrete floor”
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Stacy Lee George, who worked at Limestone Correctional Facility for over a decade, said the public needs to know how dangerous conditions are in the prison
The CO suffered a broken eye socket and other injuries; the CO union continues to argue against a bill to ban solitary confinement in the city’s jails
Last summer, the unused building was opened to staff who were “commuting great distances” to sleep between shifts
The 28-year-old CO, with stab wounds to his head, was taken to the hospital in serious but stable condition
A second officer who responded to the incident sustained minor injuries
Because we know how high the risk is for first responders, we must be diligent in detecting and preventing cardiac disease
“If I punch any one of you in your face and break your orbital, you’re not coming to work the next day. That’s our reality every single day,” a CO official said
Pay supplements will also be offered to the youth specialists and corrections officers who work in the Indian River Juvenile Correctional Facility housing units
The four men stormed the cell of another inmate after detention center officer Shannon Cherise Burden remotely opened the cell doors
Prosecutors said the inmate targeted Tidman because he thought attacking an officer would get him back to a prison facility in Virginia
Tidman, 36, was reportedly attacked by an inmate of the MCI-Shirley medium-security prison with a metal weight to the head on Aug. 31
Council President Pernel Jones, Jr. called the actions “reckless fearmongering,” and said that the county has all the information it needs to move forward with a new jail
“You want this foot?,” the CO said she heard him say before he kicked her in the right side of the face
