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.
The agreement includes suspending parts of the HALT Act for 90 days and safeguarding against excessive mandatory overtime
Officials credit better evaluations, staff training and secure facilities for the decline in state-run detention center violence
Gov. Kathy Hochul said that legal proceedings against nearly 400 striking COs had begun, with New York State Police serving restraining orders to 380 individuals
Implementing a crisis communications plan will prepare police leaders to navigate the treacherous tsunami of social media during the first 24-48 hours of a crisis
The CO shot and wounded the prisoner, who’s a murder suspect, after the inmate escaped from a medical center
Dozens of staff positions sit unfilled at the prison, where inmates set fires and smashed windows in an uprising
The family of a CO, who was killed by a former jail inmate in 2005, will receive more than $275,000 in federal funds
A prison official said about 100 inmates were involved in the uprising
The study found that the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center needed millions in funding for additional positions
The inmates are charged with capital murder in the deadly escape attempt that killed four prison employees last year
Officials found that 227 prison employees and 349 inmates were assaulted in the first five months of 2018
The inmate hit the CO in the face multiple times, fracturing an eye socket
Dillon Gage Compton is charged in the 2016 slaying of Officer Marianne Johnson
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Officer Jason Gagnon had been with the Craven Correctional Institution since August 2014
The officer suffered a broken eye socket, nose and shoulder injury as a result of the attack
In this episode of Tier Talk, host Anthony Gangi goes over a few common statements made by manipulative inmates
Antoine Fielder is charged in the shooting deaths of Deputies Patrick Rohrer and Theresa King who were transporting him between a courthouse and jail
Friends and family members spoke about the ultimate sacrifices made by Deputies Theresa King and Patrick Rohrer
The inmates reportedly cut, beat and repeatedly stabbed unit manager Brent Soucier
Deputies Theresa King and Patrick Rohrer were killed by an inmate as they were preparing to leave a courthouse
The inmate, whose name hasn’t been released, shot deputies Theresa King and Patrick Rohrer on Friday in a gated area behind the county courthouse
Anthony Gangi provides tips to help you survive corrections and avoid being manipulated
Ricky Dubose and Donnie Rowe are facing the death penalty in the murder of two COs as they escaped a prison bus
The assault on the CO is at least the third attack at Lanesboro this year where officers were injured
There are many ways correctional officers can intervene if they suspect inmates are spreading radical beliefs within an institution
Officials said the man punched a deputy, sat on top of him and slammed the deputy’s head into a concrete floor
One CO experienced the literally painful result of working at what he and others call an inadequate facility
The state will also load inmates into vans based on three levels of risk and will transport inmates alone who represent “an extraordinary safety risk”
Joshua H. Becker is accused of providing the weapon that another inmate used to stab the correctional officer on May 11
Over the past six months, four COs have been attacked – one of them killed – by SCI-Somerset inmates
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A CO filed a whistleblower complaint alleging toxic mold inside the prison is making some officers sick and putting the rest at risk
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