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 defendants failed to maintain proper safety procedures and policies and did not provide the number of necessary corrections officers to maintain order in the cellblock, records state
Sheriff Michael Moore is advocating for a temporary solution due to his deputies spending up to 15 hours traveling as far as Tennessee to transport juvenile inmates from housing facilities to court
“It’s the only way to get anyone’s attention before one of you are calling one of our families to tell a father, a mother, daughter, son was killed in the line of duty,” a 14-year CO said
Gary Harlan Scott is accused of taking a knife and threatening employees and patrons with it on July 28
Robert Charles Hammock was waiting to be released when he saw Tashka Robert Frank Maret attack a CO
Charles Morgan allegedly spit and punched a CO and attacked 3 other COs who tried to intervene
Randy Lee Hall injured a DOC officer when he opened fire on officials when they came to arrest him
Anthony Gangi and Russell Hamilton discuss what tools are needed and why they are needed
A recent audit found private facilities have more safety and security problems than ones run by the government
Robert Charles Hammock was waiting to be released when he saw Tashka Robert Frank Maret attack a CO
Eddie E. Nunez could face an additional 4 years if convicted of the aggravated battery on CO Holly Seaver
Inmate Victor Chavez bit two officers and spat on another as they put him in a restraint chair
Northern State Correctional Facility inmates Mehmed Devac and Leroy Hughes threatened the CO and issued a list of demands
Reacting to criticism that too many halfway house residents have walked away from their confines, state corrections officials are placing fewer inmates there
Oregon standoff defendant Ryan Bundy was involved in a physical confrontation with sheriff’s deputies Tuesday
The woman who was raped inside a prison classroom in 2014 has already received a $3M settlement from the state
The attack comes two weeks after another CO was slashed in the face by a prisoner who reached through a tray slot
The warden at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla and the warden at California Institution for Women retired last week
The CO suffered a broken nose and ankle after he was followed into a recreation room and beaten by the two men
Hundreds met up at Nassau County jail to protest “security lapses that endanger lives”
Trouble broke out in the same 150-inmate dormitory that was the scene of an inmate uprising in March
Anthony Gangi discusses safety concerns when working in a jail or prison
Sources say the inmate is a gang member
He says some radios didn’t work at Green Bay’s prison the day a corrections officer was attacked
The three planted a bomb in the CO’s driveway
Attackers were bragging they had beaten a cop
The facility is on lockdown after an inmate lured the CO into the cell
CO Moules died after falling down an elevator shaft during a scuffle with an inmate
State law does not require regular inspections of an elevator door safety feature that has been known to fail in the past
The safety of our officers and the community depend on us being able to protect them during the duty of transporting inmates to and from the hospital
A CO who recently quit her job at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility says women’s prison is dangerous for both staff and inmates
The fight began as a dispute over the inmate’s access to the elevator
