Jail Management News & Articles

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

By Erin HicksIf you still use rubber or plastic shanks in your training classes, you are missing a very important element that's never absent in a real-life tactical situation: stress.When you're being ...

By PoliceOne StaffEVERGREEN, Ala. — An Alabama police officer was fired from the department for TASERing a city councilman's sister while she was restrained in a chair at a county jail, according ...

The Mock Prison Riot, held in May each year, serves as a venue for technologists that want to showcase new or improved law enforcement- and corrections-specific products and seek valuable feedback from end users. ...

Well it finally happened, your first in-custody death. Were you ready? If not, you need to get ready for the next one because "Knowledge is Power." ...

In the past, most correctional administrators had to spend a great deal of time wading through a variety of paper reports, cross-checking and analyzing data in their heads, trying to identify the warning signs that operational problems may be imminent. As the computer age takes an ever-firmer hold on U.S. society, correctional systems have joined in, looking for ways to automate and make this process simpler. The Florida Department of Corrections, through an award from the Office of Justice Programs’ National Institute of Justice, is developing the Correctional Operations Trend Analysis System (COTAS), an automated way of predicting inmate disruption and helping administrators find ways to minimize it. ...

The Pennsylvania Center for Juvenile Justice Training and Research (CJJT&R), sponsor of the class, had used the Community Corrections E-Learning Collaborative (CCELC) to revamp classroom instruction into online training. While a major snowstorm raged that wintry day in February of last year, many of the first students to take the revised class sat down at their home computers and prepared to learn. ...

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 developed by ...

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 mentally ...

By Gary T. Klugiewicz Director of Training Redman Training Division March 11, 2002 Introduction: In 1986, I presented my first Calibre Press Street Survivala Seminar in Canada. The Canadian Officers present ...