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.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said it has multiple vehicles on standby if they are needed to transport Pitchess Detention Center inmates
The latest release reduces the prison’s population to 15, the fewest since it opened in 2002
The change comes after an inmate knocked a corrections officer to the ground and fled while being transferred from a prison van to UNC Hospitals in Hillsborough
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
Eight inmates from the Putnam County Jail and a corrections officer suffered minor injuries after a prisoner transport van was involved in a two-vehicle crash
The officer escorting the inmate left him alone briefly at the hospital
Travis County sheriff’s office will require an additional officer to be available to relieve colleagues guarding hospitalized inmates
Police in Baltimore are investigating a sign posted inside a police transport van that tells passengers: “Enjoy your ride, cuz we sure will!”
Officer Daryle Holloway, 45, died at a hospital, police chief Michael Harrison said
Woman fled during bathroom stop on drive back to jail
A Florida man who violated his probation for a bad check conviction in Pike County claims he was urinated on and forced to endure other abuse
Sgt. Iris Smith, 53, was killed instantly when the van she was driving collided with the back of an 18-wheeler
Inmate used a makeshift piece of metal to stab a correctional officer four times in the chest, head, neck and back
Camera system will have audio capabilities and record the front of the vehicle, the officers and the inmate
Will decide if they should continue using COs or should switch back to constables
