Correctional Facility Maintenance News & Articles

• N.C. Sheriff makes appeal for a new jail

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  "I'm afraid someone is going to get hurt or killed on my watch. I don't want to get sued. If I get sued, you all will get sued."

• With Wisc. jail $10 million over budget, board's Black Caucus unveils new plan

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  The Caucus wants to send jail inmates with severe medical needs to local hospitals, build a smaller jail with fewer beds and call for other reforms to address the jail's extreme racial disparities

• Ohio county jail administrator has 11-point wish list for a new jail

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  After touring newly built jails, Cuyahoga County Jail Administrator Ronda Gibson has design ideas to improve inmate processing, housing and CO training areas

• How to shop for your agency like you shop for yourself

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  First responders can save time and money and implement greater departmental purchasing transparency with the Amazon First Responders Storefront

• How a new tabletop tool provides proactive detection for COVID-19 and other pathogens

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  The portable BioFlash Biological Identifier can detect and identify the presence of low levels of aerosolized COVID-19 in any part of your facility

• How these correctional cleaning products are put to the test

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  Briarwood Products makes sure its tough but flexible cleaning products, designed specifically for use in correctional facilities, are up to the job

• Coping with the never-ending evolution of inmate weapons

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  Inmates are adept at turning whatever materials are at hand into improvised weapons – the ongoing challenge for corrections officials is to detect these weapons

• Spotlight: How Briarwood Products is helping provide safe cleaning tools for the correctional industry

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  The company's tools have helped reduce assaults and provide a sense of security to COs while inmates are performing their cleaning tasks

• Providing inmates with skills for careers in HVACR

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  How commercial HVACR career and technical training partnerships can reduce recidivism and improve correctional facilities

• Why every corrections officer should be a risk manager

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  Reporting and dissecting close calls will improve safety while decreasing liability

• Why off-the-shelf cleaning products aren’t up to the task in corrections

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  Wood, metal and hard plastic brooms and mops can easily be made into weapons – here’s why you need to look for tools made specifically for the correctional environment

• Is your facility’s disinfectant up to the task when it comes to COVID-19?

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  Decon7 Systems provides a disinfectant that effectively neutralizes the novel coronavirus and a variety of other biological threats

• How one facility and vendor are working together to develop safer cleaning products

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  The Ohio State Penitentiary reached out to Briarwood Products for help in providing tools that comply with its security measures

• Why safety is key when ordering cleaning supplies for corrections

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  What are the critical considerations that correctional facility managers must keep in mind when ordering tools and supplies to be handled by inmate workers?

• How a simple supply change can boost safety in your facility

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  Eliminate the potential for improvised weapons by using cleaning tools made from materials that can’t be sharpened

• Webinar: How correctional facilities can attract and develop all-star talent with the right education programs

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  Learn how the Tennessee Department of Correction is leveraging a learning management system

• How to train to survive a shank attack

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  One of the most dangerous and feared homemade weapons in corrections is the shank or shiv; here’s how to defend against an attack

• Spotlight: Briarwood Products offers COs a solution to the danger of improvised weapons

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  The company's main focus is to keep corrections officers and inmates safe while cleaning