Warning: Inmate Cuffing Port Safety Risks

Beyond the Badge, Inside the Bars with Carey Randall

https://www.riverside.fm/?via=carey-randall The food port of a cell door in a segregation unit can be one of the most dangerous places one encounters. The number of opportunities an inmate has to assault the employee through the food port are numerous. The opening of the port is frequent throughout the day.Every time you open the food port, that offender has a golden opportunity to attack you with little worry about injury to himself. The most you can do against the offender is use O/C spray, but in all likelihood the inmate will have already set up a counter measure to protect himself from that. While feeding, passing books, exchanging clothes, taking them out for showers, etc. the inmate grabs your wrist and pulls you into the food port. From here he is able to break your arm in several different ways. He can break your hand, as well as your fingers. If you’re pulled in far enough, he can get a hold of your head and/ or hair. A head can fit through a food port, and it goes in easier than it comes out. The offender can reach out and grab your keys, O/C spray, or anything else on your belt. If he has your spray then he can use it against you and other officers while his food port is still open. He can use it against the movement team that comes into to get the spray back. This can happen to the officer’s keys as well. An officer’s set of keys makes one of the best weapons of opportunity one can think of. They can get ahold of the keys and use it to escape or make weapons with. Then there is the risk of bodily fluids being thrown at staff through an open food port. The inmate can throw urine, feces, blood, semen, and any combination thereof. These attacks by violent and unruly inmates can cause serious injuries and unnecessary dangers for the personnel outside the cell. #CorrectionalOfficers # #corrections #volunteer #chaplin #fdoc #pov #inmate #prison #programs #florida #prisonsafety @GACorrections @CACorrections @AmericanCorrectional @americanjailassociation6919 @JustCorrections https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUF5183UwSs&t=13s @PlayMorePods #PodcastsOnAmazonMusic