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Operator Magazine - 1Q 2010 Now Available

The First Quarter 2010 issues of Operator Magazine is now available. This edition is full of new tactics, impressive technology, and addresses issues and challenges that operators across the country and around the world face each and every day. Follow the link below and take your knowledge to the next level.
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Tactics and Technology Merge

The world we live in is changing every day. New challenges arise to keep pace with our ever-inventive solutions to yesterday’s problems. In the correction’s industry this has meant looking to computers to help us do our jobs. At first it might seem counter-intuitive.
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Tech Tac Moment - General Dynamics Itronix Mobile Computing

The Itronix laptop series by General Dynamics are the most rugged laptops available today. Meeting and exceeding the most stringent specifications out there, these bad boys let you access and act on your critical information where you need it most: in the field. This Tech Tac Moment puts these laptops through the paces to see how well they really do hold up out in the open.
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2010 Shot Show in Las Vegas Review

The 2010 Shot Show in Las Vegas just a couple of weeks ago was full of new equipment, technology, and tactics to ensure that operators across the country and around the world can continue to safely execute their missions. Join us for taste of the 2010 Shot Show in Las Vegas.
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2010 Shot Show Recap

The 2010 Shot Show was a great success. A new venue at the Sands Convention Center kept everyone in one place and out of the record setting rain that inundated Las Vegas during the show. Vendors, manufacturers and attendees from all over the world flocked to Vegas to see the latest products, trainings and techniques for hunting, fishing, and law enforcement applications.
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CSO Advisory CONUS

State seeks prison escapee

Thursday, 11 March 2010
 A man who walked away from a minimum-security Department of Corrections fac
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CSO Advisory OCONUS

Accused claims officers sparked riot

Wednesday, 10 March 2010
The man accused of sparking a riot at Belconnen Remand Centre last year, in which six prison officers were taken to hospital, says corrections authorities provoked the trouble by calling prisoners scum.
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State seeks prison escapee

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 14:08

 A man who walked away from a minimum-security Department of Corrections facility might be armed and dangerous, the department said.

D.C. jail inmate who shot at police now on the run after escape

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 14:05

 A D.C. jail inmate charged in a wild shoot-out with District police escaped from custody Thursday morning and remains on the run, authorities said.

Six Osceola jail inmates arrested for making, hiding alcohol

Thu, 03/11/2010 - 13:57

 Six enterprising inmates at the Osceola County Jail were brewing homemade alcohol using fruit they hoarded and fermented within their cell walls, deputies said.


Inmates in corrections facilities across the United States often trade the homemade booze or "buck," as it is commonly known, for cash, drugs, cigarettes or favors.

Ohio Death Row Inmate on Suicide Watch After Overdose

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 06:27

COLUMBUS, Ohio —  Officials say an Ohio inmate who intentionally overdosed on pills hours before his scheduled execution has returned to prison and is on suicide watch.

Prisons spokeswoman Julie Walburn says 43-year-old Lawrence Reynolds Jr., who admitted taking an overdose of medication prescribed to him, arrived at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown shortly after noon on Tuesday.

Accused claims officers sparked riot

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 06:24

The man accused of sparking a riot at Belconnen Remand Centre last year, in which six prison officers were taken to hospital, says corrections authorities provoked the trouble by calling prisoners scum.

Matthew James Massey is one of five former and current detainees to be charged over the violence at one of the centre's yards on January 5, 2009.

Attempted breakout at Bogota youth prison

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 06:22

A riot and attempted breakout at a juvenile detention center in southern Bogota on Tuesday left several people injured, including inmates, staff and police officers, reports Colombian media.

Deputy confirms San Augustine inmate kills self day after arrest

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 06:16

 SAN AUGUSTINE, TX (KTRE) - A 21-year-old woman hanged herself to death a day after being booked into the San Augustine County jail, a sheriff's office spokesman said Tuesday.

According to Chief Deputy Allen Cunningham, Sonya Sheffield was arrested Feb. 27 on an outstanding warrant in Anderson County on a charge of debit/credit card abuse.

Five dead in Mexico prison riot

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 06:14

CIUDAD JUAREZ: A clash between armed rival gangs in a Mexican jail left five inmates dead and 14 injured on Tuesday, authorities in northern Chihuahua state said.

Some 300 soldiers and police took several hours to control the unrest in the Aquiles Serdan state prison, said Gustavo Zabre, the state head of public security.

Trusty Unit Escapee Arrested In Missouri

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:43

 A missing prison inmate from the Yankton Trusty Unit has been captured in Missouri.

The Yankton County Sheriff’s Office received a report at 3:48 p.m. on Sunday of a prison inmate who had escaped from the Trusty Unit on the grounds of the Human Services Center.

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