Prisoner Transport News & Articles

• How to buy tactical training (eBook)

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  Download this Corrections1 tactical training buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation

• Prisoner transport: Tech and training to improve safety (eBook)

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  Download Corrections1's guide to help your agency minimize risk and improve both officer and inmate safety during transport operations

• Why you need to be a control freak during prisoner transport

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  Vigilance at every step helps officers avoid complacency and ward off prisoner escapes or assaults

• How to select and train officers for high-risk inmate transports

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  Those tasked with performing high-risk transports should have a mastery of the basics before being given assignments with an added element of risk

• Implementing scenario-based prisoner transport training

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  Inmate transport is the weakest link in our inmate chain of custody, so correctional facilities must provide the training and tools necessary for safe transport

• 7 technologies that belong in every prisoner transport vehicle

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  It is impossible to eliminate the dangers associated with moving inmates in prisoner transport vehicles, but installing the right equipment can reduce the risks

• Reducing the risks associated with prisoner transport

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  The right mix of technology, training, situational awareness and effective oversight can minimize both physical and liability risks

• How to buy prisoner transport vehicles and inserts (eBook)

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  Download this Corrections1 prisoner transport products buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation

• How to deter inmate misbehavior during transport or court

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  Keeping potentially dangerous prisoners safely under physical control during transport or court appearances is a major challenge for corrections officers – but it can be done reliably with the right electronically-controlled device.

• ASP’s Transport Kit wins 2019 Public Safety Product Innovation Award

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  The Transport Kit allows officers to safely restrain detainees or prisoners

• Why inmate hospital watch is a dangerous shift

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  If anyone believes hospital watches are not dangerous just ask an officer who has been attacked and injured while on hospital watch to talk with you about their experiences

• Ohio adds cameras, separate cells to prison transport vans

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  The state will also load inmates into vans based on three levels of risk and will transport inmates alone who represent "an extraordinary safety risk"

• How to buy an inmate transport video surveillance system (and why you should)

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  A vehicle video surveillance system can alleviate COs and agencies of any liability in the midst of an unpredictable incident during inmate transport

• 4 things correctional facilities should demand from prisoner transport inserts

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  Correctional facilities need to consider everything from safety features to ease of cleaning when evaluating a purchase

• Vegas police: Mistakes made before hospital ER shooting

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  Police say mistakes were made in leaving a suicidal man alone in the ER, where he grabbed a CO's ECD from an unattended bag before the OIS

• Colo. theater shooter transferred to Pa. prison

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  James Holmes' location had been a tightly held secret after he was moved out of Colorado last year because he was attacked by another inmate

• Killer dubbed 'a known Hannibal Lecter' pleads guilty, gets 25 years

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  Records show that after Casey Pigge killed cellmate Luther Wade last year, he told investigators he'd kill again if placed with another inmate

• Vegas cop fatally shoots suspect armed with CO's TASER

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  The suspect told the dispatcher he was feeling suicidal and he was going to "blast it out with the police officers"

• Inmate escapes cuffs, attempts to strangle Ind. CO in transport car

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  Joshua Stam freed himself from the handcuffs and attacked Officer David Weakley

• Inmate evacuated by Irma dies after leaping from moving bus

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  Camilo Quintero jumped from an emergency exit window of a bus as it traveled on Florida's Turnpike

• 11 NY COs injured at courthouse in inmate pipe attack

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  The inmate broke a pipe off the wall and used it as a weapon

• 1,400 more prisoners on the move due to Harvey

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  That brings to nearly 6,000 the number of prisoners displaced by Harvey

• Texas inmates being moved due to flooding risk

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  Officials say they are evacuating about 4,500 inmates from three state prisons because the nearby Brazos River is rising from Hurricane Harvey's heavy rain

• Ohio ending plans to move its death row to another prison

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  The prison department now says that a change in inmate population strategies makes the move unnecessary

• "White Boy Rick" transferred to Fla. prison for stolen car conviction

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  Richard Wershe, who was known on the streets as "White Boy Rick," was turned over to federal authorities, five weeks after he was granted parole

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