Facility Products News & Articles

• What I learned about catching contraband in jail mail

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  A former jail administrator recounts lessons learned from a contraband crackdown – in particular, why screening the mail is so important

• 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

• How to build a layered contraband detection strategy and why it matters (eBook)

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  Multiple screening steps and checkpoints, combined with varied screening technology, will help thwart smuggling into your facility to keep officers and inmates safer

• 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

• How one tool helps COs screen mail for illicit drugs quickly and safely

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  ChemImage’s VeroVision Mail Screener provides a reliable, non-destructive, efficient approach to detecting illicit drugs in the mail quickly and safely

• Why COs need to pay extra attention to incoming mail

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  Paper soaked in synthetic cannabinoids presents a serious problem when it comes to attempts to smuggle drugs into correctional facilities

• 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

• Why a layered screening strategy is critical for stopping contraband

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  To keep drugs, weapons and other disruptive items out of your facility, first identify gaps in your screening process, then adopt a variety of policies and tools to plug the holes

• Spotlight: RCE Consulting, LLC provides 'missing link' for owners and operators of X-ray equipment

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  RCE Consulting, LLC makes sure manufacturers, distributors, installers and owners are aware of and understand regulatory requirements and responsibilities

• Why every corrections officer should be a risk manager

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  Reporting and dissecting close calls will improve safety while decreasing liability

• COVID-19: How public safety companies are assisting the frontline pandemic response

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  The businesses that equip and serve first responders are supporting the national emergency response with new products, free services and donations

• Spotlight: ChemImage products help quickly, easily and objectively detect drugs concealed in inmate mail

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  Unlike other contraband detection methods, VeroVision Mail Screener takes the guesswork out of mail screening

• How to incorporate temperature screening into your safety protocols while reducing overtime and increased exposure risk

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  Your temperature screening tools should help your efforts to curb the spread of infection without interrupting operations

• 3 key strategies for effective visitor screening

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  Consider these tools and techniques to help maintain the constant vigilance necessary to keep contraband drugs, phones and weapons out of your facility

• Why an infectious disease response team belongs in your correctional facility

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  Correctional institutions are uniquely susceptible to the rapid spread of disease

• 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

• Suboxone and Spice: 7 things COs need to know

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  Fentanyl isn’t the only hot contraband drug – here are some key facts about two of the substances most often smuggled through the mail

• 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

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