Jail Management News & Articles

• On-Demand Webinar: Educational access for everyone inside prisons

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  Learn how to scale digital education for incarcerated individuals using wireless, handheld devices.

• How to buy jail management software (eBook)

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  Download this Police1 jail management software buying guide to learn key steps for product selection, purchasing and implementation

• (Webinar) Using AI to gather intelligence from inmate calls for solving crimes—and saving lives

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  Learn how artificial intelligence is used to mitigate agency liability, enhance officer and correctional staff safety, and prevent suicides

• How biometric technologies will help correctional facilities

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  Biometric technologies have already helped facilities improve offender identification and have the potential to improve efficiency for employee access authentication

• Inmate communications: An investigative resource

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  Inmate communications are too often underestimated and sometimes overlooked during an investigator’s quest for information

• Better prepare for any attack with Shocknife

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  Training knife induces the stress necessary to give realistic edged weapon training

• Ala. officer fired over jail TASER incident

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  Jail surveillance video shows the police officer, his wife and a CO choking and restraining a woman before TASERing her

• Useful techniques for surviving budget cuts

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  p>Budget reductions continue to have a significant impact on managing facilities in a safe and efficient manner. Every year, public safety agencies across the United States are expected to maintain...

• Mock prison riot a showcase for new technologies

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  Using night-vision goggles, the Correctional Emergency Response Team officers search the facility’s pitch-dark basement slowly, carefully, methodically. An inmate has ducked away from the rest of h...

• Calif. Sheriff seeks illegal immigrant inmates

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  By Jennifer McLain Whittier Daily NewsLOS ANGELES — The county could be expanding a nationwide deportation program aimed at identifying illegal immigrant gang members serving time in jail.Last week...

• In-custody death: Getting ready for the big one

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  Related article: IPICD 3rd Annual Sudden Death, Excited Delirium & In-Custody Death Conference—LAS VEGAS Well it finally happened, your first in-custody death. Were you ready? If not, you need to g...

• Today’s forecast: trouble ahead

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  Most mornings, the warden logs onto his computer system and is greeted by an array of dials somewhat like an automobile dashboard, all lit in green to indicate “situation normal.” This morning, how...

• Gun search at N.J. prison comes up empty

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  Inmate recants tip about weapon in Newark By RICK HEPPNewark Star-LedgerNEWARK, N.J. — Officers searched a maximum-security unit at Northern State Prison - which holds New Jersey's most dangerous g...

• Late inmate's kin can sue Utah over van crash, top court rules

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  By Geoffrey Fattah Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Family members of a late Utah State Prison inmate who was paralyzed during a van rollover in 2000 may still have a chance to sue the state for perso...

• Scope it out

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  As police and corrections officers, we transport prisoners every day inside and outside our secured facilities. One thing that can help us on the outside is "scoping out" our various destinations b...

• Improvised correctional staff defensive weapons

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  I carry a regular hair comb.  It is an unbreakable comb that I carry all the time.  Although you cannot stab with the comb, it can be used very effectively to slash with to keep you or your fellow ...

• Use of TASER on bound Md. suspect raises questions of policy

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  Sources say man was shocked twice before he diedBy Ruben Castaneda, Washington Post Staff WriterThe Washington PostSEAT PLEASANT, Md. — A man who died after a confrontation with police in Seat Plea...

• Recidivism program comes to Mich. county

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  By Rod Smith, Special to Hometown Gazette Kalamazoo Gazette  PAW PAW, Mich — A program that has proven successful in preventing parolees from returning to prison is coming to Van Buren County. The ...

• Extra jail cells generate millions of dollars for Ohio county

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  By Lauren Pack Staff Writer Dayton Daily News (Ohio)  HAMILTON, Ohio — While other area commissioners and sheriffs in the region are juggling beds and bad guys in a constant struggle to house law b...

• Watch for hidden sharp objects

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  Razorblades, needles, and other small, sharp objects can be hidden easily...even on the head. These tiny, yet potentially deadly, weapons are hidden/taped behind suspects' ears, under bangs, or on ...

• Increase the Safety and Efficiency of Your Facility with the Public Domain Jail Management

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  The Public Domain Jail Management System was developed as part of the Mississippi Automated System Project (MASP) through a grant provided by the U.S. Department of Justice. The PD JMS was develope...

• FL agency chief threatened with jail for failure to get treatment for mentally ill inmates

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  The Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Florida- A judge threatened to jail the head of the state Department of Children & Families if the agency cannot explain why it consistently has failed to get m...

• Cell Entry Tactics: Liability management through innovative program implementation

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  By Gary T. KlugiewiczDirector of TrainingRedman Training DivisionMarch 11, 2002 Introduction: In 1986, I presented my first Calibre Press Street Survivala Seminar in Canada. The Canadian Officers p...