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Prisoner Transport

The Prisoner Transport topic area gives COs the training and tools they need to safely complete the unique mission of transporting an inmate from one facility to another. The task can be one of the most dangerous periods of time for the officers charged with that duty, as subjects often see the ride as their last, best chance for escape.

John Manard escaped in 2006 with the help of a woman who ran a dog rehabilitation program; A CO who recognized the woman did not thoroughly search the van at the time
Ramone Alston was captured on Aug. 16, more than 24 hours after escaping while he was being transported to a hospital
Ramone Alston, who has not been seen since Aug. 13, is serving a life sentence for the murder of a 14-month-old girl in 2015
It appeared neither of the COs in charge of transporting the prisoners checked on the men during two stops
Holmes was transferred out of state following the attack
The former head stepped down two months before the erroneous early release of thousands of prisoners was made public
The Texas Department of Public Safety says the pickup’s driver was killed
Ethan Couch, 18, was moved to the Tarrant County Jail from a juvenile detention center in Fort Worth
The man was held captive at gunpoint for a week after picking up the men on Jan. 22
No employees or inmates were hurt by the tornado that struck late Tuesday afternoon at the low-security lockup
The agreement came after a year of negotiations involving the civil rights lawsuit filed in 2013 by inmate Stephen Rudisill
Authorities say the deputy had been transporting an inmate
Sheriff’s officials are investigating whether excessive force was used
Killer pleaded guilty to killing 49 women over 20 years, but says the actual number of his victims is closer to 70
A prisoner charged with killing a sheriff over the summer escaped Tuesday as deputies were trying to transfer him to a different jail
Inmates were transferred to a second bus
Allegheny County Chief Deputy Kevin Kraus says 33-year-old Steven Woodson was being treated at Allegheny General Hospital when he attacked the deputy on Friday
The inmate was also pronounced dead after being subdued by hospital security
The van pulled out in front of a semi-truck heading east
Officials say 17 people, including the driver, were aboard the van at the time of the accident on U.S. 60 near the Loop 101
State prison officials said they decided to move him back to Washington after hearing concerns from law enforcement, who wanted easy access to the serial killer in case they needed to interview him about open murder investigations
Disgusted by DOC’s move to allow killer more freedom and social contacts
Busloads of New Orleans inmates arrived at a new $150 million jail Monday
Joshua Lee Drinnon, 35, was serving 17 years at a state prison in San Diego for the Morro Bay robbery when he escaped from a transport unit
Maryland moved the last inmates out of the dangerously decrepit men’s section of the Baltimore City Detention Center on Tuesday
A Tampa Bay area man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for fatally attacking another man in a jail transport van
The man managed “to move away from his bed, break the window, and jump to the ground below”
What started out as a relatively calm prisoner transport Tuesday turned into a guns-drawn, hourlong search through a wooded area
Inmates who weren’t hurt in the early morning crash tended to the injured and even helped direct traffic
The deputy released the inmate and was not injured
He lunged at deputies on two separate occasions attempting to grab at their groin areas
The suspect attempted to bite off his fingertips in order to make his fingerprints indiscernible
Two deputies and three inmates being transported from the jails in Chesapeake and Portsmouth suffered minor injuries