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.
From body cameras to healthcare access, the new year will bring key policy shifts to improve corrections operations
More than 1,000 inmates in Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center were evacuated after a 2023 “atmospheric river storm” in Sacramento caused levees to breach
The sheriff said the Woodbury County Sheriff’s Office has spent over a year preparing for the move, with staff working overtime, taking on extra duties and adjusting their hours
Wesley Massey was being transported to Pennsylvania when authorities say he escaped and fled in a stolen car
An inmate is facing charges after smuggling in a drug that sent six prisoners to the hospital
A federal ruling ordered 16- and 17-year-olds to no longer be housed in solitary confinement
Sheriff Paul Penzone’s office said the inmates went free because federal authorities declined to pick them up after they had become eligible for release
When Chief Matthew Mann’s van was struck head on, the inmates he trained jumped into action to save his life
Sgt. Dale Smith said that none of the injuries were life-threatening
The inmates were transported after officials ordered an evacuation near the Oroville Dam spillway
Matthew Ezekiel Stager was captured in Washington D.C. after two Metropolitan police officers spotted him
An Ohio inmate was strangled to death while riding in a corrections agency van with other prisoners and COs aboard, a prosecutor said
Officials say the first U.S. inmate to receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery has been moved to a women’s prison
The inmate escaped while being transported by Kentucky deputies
The man who admitted last year to killing Jacob Wetterling in 1989 is serving his sentence at a federal prison outside Boston
A judge wrote that new evidence seemed to “undermine the entire prosecution case and point unerringly to innocence or reduced culpability”
The high security section of the facility where high-risk inmates spent their time awaiting trial, will now house escape artist Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman
The prison agency is downsizing the Maryland Correctional Institution near Hagerstown to increase safety and efficiency
Obama said there’s “simply no justification beyond politics” to keep Guantanamo open
He entered a not-guilty plea through his court-appointed lawyer to drug trafficking and other charges and will be held without bail
Authorities said 19 of the remaining 55 prisoners at the prison were cleared for release
Christopher Hubbart was recommitted to Coalinga State Hospital for at least a year
The department has declined to comment on reports that earlier in the week Charles Manson was taken to a hospital
A DOC spokeswoman declined to say whether the leader of the notorious Manson family has been hospitalized
Tramell MacKenzie Hunter allegedly attacked COs Lisa Mauldin and Demaris Allen in the kitchen area of the jail
Officials said two COs and 16 inmates were hospitalized after the bus left the road and rolled onto its side
The “arresting” deputy’s bodycam caught the entire incident on film
The court has rejected Edward Snowden’s request for a legal guarantee that would allow him to collect an award in the country without risk of being extradited to the US
The word of a co-defendant put James Robert McClurkin behind bars for a 1973 murder
Richard Rosario, freed in March, requested the case be kept open for more investigation, even though he’d still be under indictment
Wis. Attorney General Brad Schimel said he would file an emergency motion to put Brendan Dassey’s supervised release order on hold
The state argued that convicted murderer Adnan Syed shouldn’t be released on bail while awaiting retrial
Paul Gingerich, now 18, was resentenced under “Paul’s Law,” which allows alternative sentences for juveniles who commit serious crimes
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