Facility Products News & Articles

• 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

• 3 facility considerations for inmate screening technology

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  Be sure to plan for how you will incorporate new tech into your screening process, where equipment will be located and where you will get funding to purchase the tools

• Fla. prisons see visitation upheaval as officials cite contraband crisis

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  Officials said there is a growing contraband problem in Florida prisons

• How secure oral care products keep COs and prisoners safe

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  OraLine’s Secure Care products include toothbrushes, toothpaste and floss safe for distribution within facilities

• 3 ways to increase safety and reduce costs in your facility with a new eating utensil

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  Decrease the risk of inmates injuring themselves and others by adopting the paperboard EcoSecurity Utensil

• Research analysis: The benefits of telemedicine for inmate healthcare

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  Telehealth programs can increase inmate access to care, lower costs and allow inmates to be seen sooner

• Quiz: Do you know how to safely handle contraband drugs?

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  Contraband drugs have always threatened the safety and security of correctional facilities, but today they pose an even bigger risk to correctional officer safety

• Fentanyl: What are the exposure risks?

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  While the hazards of fentanyl exposure are significant for COs, it’s important to understand the myths and realities

• Reducing the influx of narcotics in correctional facilities (white paper)

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  Download the free white paper to learn how searching at multiple points using varied methods and tools can help you catch more contraband

• How tablets are helping clean up one Ariz. prison

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  Inmate tablets present a proven, cost-effective way to make jail staff safer and prepare inmates to live productive lives upon release

• 5 key areas to inspect for contraband

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  Inmates and their associates can be quite crafty when concealing illicit items

• How a New York prison is using UAS detection tech

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  The facility is using the tech to thwart any attempts to use drones to deliver illicit items

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