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 loaded handgun was allegedly left in a Nashville dental school restroom during a medical transport from Trousdale Turner Correctional Center
Six years after indictments and multiple convictions, the BOP says it will finally take custody of nine Aryan Brotherhood members
Casey White’s sentencing, the suspension of his murder trial and a new Netflix documentary bring fresh attention to the 2022 escape
Christopher Hunt has a history of attacking law enforcement
Workers at the pizza joint watched a man approach the car, but didn’t know it was escaped inmate Bruce Brutsman
After the shocking murder of two Georgia COs during an inmate transport, corrections professionals should review policies and procedures
The officers are in stable condition
The inmates were being hunted in the killings of two COs who were overpowered, disarmed and shot to death on a prison bus
An inmate being transported from a different prison hijacked a van full of other prisoners and escaped
On suicide watch at the jail, Tywon Salters’ previous behavior showed he’d seek opportunities to escape custody, according to the lawsuit
Recent events have underscored the dangers of inmate escorts and transports
Wesley Correa-Carmenaty had just been sentenced to 45 years in an unrelated case when he grabbed a deputy’s gun, shot him and another deputy, and escaped
The deputy was fatally wounded last Monday when an inmate returning from court grabbed a gun and shot him
Ryan Ellis kicked out the rear window of the vehicle and jumped out as the car was moving
The DA said he will drop the charges if Wesley Correa-Carmenaty agrees to be extradited to Iowa to face more serious charges, including murder in the death of Deputy Mark Burbridge
Police said David M. Watson II escaped custody as he was being moved from the vehicle into the hospital
Since March 1, Bradley County Jail officials have refused entry on medical grounds to at least three men
The correctional officers were bringing the inmates back from a doctor’s appointment when they crashed
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
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