Exam #2 study guide

Exam Study Guide

Importance of Building Positive Relationships

• Building positive relationships with offenders is crucial as it builds trust, rapport, and helps correctional officers (COs) know the offenders' baseline.
• It provides insights into the unit and helps COs evolve in their critical thinking and assessment of situations.
• It allows COs to study and understand different sub-cultures of groups.
• This connection provides a safe and confidential space where offenders can explore the root causes of their criminal behaviors, address underlying issues, and develop necessary skills to lead a law-abiding life.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• PPE protects COs from contamination from airborne, vapor, and absorbed materials.

Understanding Key Terms

• Narcan: a term related to opioid overdose.
• Opioid: a type of drug.
• Fentanyl: a type of drug.
• Stimulants: a type of drug.
• Depressants: a type of drug.

Identifying Signs and Symptoms of Opioid Overdose

• Agonal breathing
• Sweaty, pale, clammy skin
• Shortness of breath
• Loss of consciousness
• Vomiting
• Erratic heartbeat

Correctional Facility Security

• The safety and security of staff, visitors, and offenders within the correctional facility are of utmost importance.
• This is achieved through searching.

Searching Correctional Facilities

• Searching is vital to the safety and security of staff, visitors, offenders, and the facility.
• Searching by COs minimizes risk to staff, offenders, and the facility by ensuring no dangerous or non-dangerous contraband is present.

Types of Searches

• Routine search: Searching is vital to the safety and security of staff, visitors, offenders, and the facility.
• Non-routine search: Searching based on reasonable grounds, such as witnessing an offender picking up a piece of garbage and placing it in their pocket.

Process of a Proper Cell Search

• Work from one side of the cell to the other in a systematic fashion.
• Search all holes and cracks in furniture, walls, floors, and ceiling.
• Inspect all items in the cell while being respectful of items of personal and cultural significance.

Criminal Gang Characteristics

• Pro-criminal attitudes, thoughts, values, and sentiments supportive of criminal behavior.
• Antisocial personality, low self-control, impulsivity, affection for violence, lack of respect for others, callous/unemotional, and interpersonal difficulties.
• Family/marital instability, criminal unemployment, lack of community/social support/poor parenting.

Importance of Searching

• Searching is vital to the safety and security of staff, visitors, offenders, and the facility.
• Searching allows COs to mitigate risk to staff, offenders, and the facility by ensuring no dangerous or non-dangerous contraband is present.

Process of Conducting a Proper Search

• Work from one side of the area to the other in a systematic fashion.
• Search all holes and cracks in furniture, walls, floors, and ceiling.
• Inspect all items in the area while being respectful of items of personal and cultural significance.

Responding to Inmate Manipulation

• Be aware of inmate manipulation tactics.
• Use the word "No" to set boundaries.
• Report suspicious behavior.
• Verify information and stories before taking action.
• Always have a witness to interactions with inmates.
• Never be in an inmate's area alone.
• If you have done something inappropriate, report it to your Deputy.
• Always be professional and maintain boundaries.

Inmate Behavior

• Understand the "penal warning system" and protect yourself from unprofessional boundaries.
• Be aware of inmate behavior and recognize potential manipulation tactics.

General Information & Conclusion

• Recognize the effects of the prison environment.
• Understand the process of a set-up and how to deal with situations.
• No inmate is ever accepted in the system.

Visitor Searches

• All visitors must undergo a search using a handheld or walkthrough metal detector.
• In certain circumstances, visitors may be subject to a frisk search, but only with authorization from the director or their designate.
• Visitors who refuse to comply with a search may be denied access to the facility.

Correctional Facility Security

• The safety and security of staff, visitors, and offenders within the correctional facility are of utmost importance
• Searching is vital to the safety and security of staff, visitors, offenders, and the facility
• Searching by CSEs minimizes risk to staff, offenders, and the facility by ensuring no dangerous or non-dangerous contraband is present

Searching Correctional Facilities

• Routine search: searching is vital to the safety and security of staff, visitors, offenders, and the facility
• Non-routine search: if you witness an offender in the yard pick up a piece of garbage and place it in his pocket before continuing to walk

Process of a Proper Cell Search

• Work from one side of the cell to the other in a systematic fashion
• Search all holes and cracks in furniture, the walls, floors, and the ceiling
• Inspect all items in the cell while being respectful of items of personal and cultural significance

Criminal Gang Characteristics

• Pro-criminal attitudes, thoughts, values, and sentiments supportive of criminal behavior
• Antisocial personality, low self-control, impulsivity, affection for violence, lack of respect for others, callous/unemotional, and interpersonal difficulties
• Family/marital instability, criminal unemployment, lack of community/social support/poor parenting

Importance of Searching

• Searching is vital to the safety and security of staff, visitors, offenders, and the facility
• Searching allows CSEs to mitigate risk to staff, offenders, and the facility by ensuring no dangerous or non-dangerous contraband is present

Types of Searches

• Institutional: everyone is locked down and searched; completed twice yearly at RCC
• Area-specific: cell, tier, unit
• Vehicle
• Canine

Visitor Searches

• All visitors are to be searched via handheld or walkthrough metal detector
• Visitors can be frisk searched with authorization from the director or designate
• Visitors can be denied access to the facility for refusing to comply to a search

Inmate Manipulation

• Hover bags, other things that are not allowed including not giving inmates anything that they are not normally permitted to have
• Use the word "No" to the answer of the body language; send the message inmates really want to receive
• Report suspicious behavior; verify information and stories before taking any kind of action
• Always have a witness to anything that you do with an inmate; never be in an inmate's area on your own
• If you have done something inappropriate, tell your Deputy
• Regardless of what happened, it is far better to be reprimanded than to become a criminal
• Always be professional; never accept anything from inmates

Inmate Behavior

• Understand the "penal warning system" and protect yourself from unprofessional boundaries
• Education when inmates are alone with the officer and understand that you are not the only one going through this process

External Escorts

• Body belts shall not
• Best practices guidelines to consider before and during an external escort

Risk Assessment Overview

• Risk needs responsivity analysis (RNR) and offense analysis
• Primary Risk Assessment #1 and #2
• PAL model from ASIST training

Contraband & Evidence

• Define "contraband" and provide examples
• Describe in detail the process for "continuity of evidence"

Correctional Facility Security

• Safety and security of staff, visitors, and offenders within the correctional facility are of utmost importance
• Searching is vital to the safety and security of staff, visitors, offenders, and the facility
• Searching by CSEs minimizes risk to staff, offenders, and the facility by ensuring no dangerous or non-dangerous contraband is present

Searches

• Routine search: Searching is vital to the safety and security of staff, visitors, offenders, and the facility
• Non-routine search: If you witness an offender in the yard pick up a piece of garbage and place it in his pocket before continuing to walk
• Process of a proper cell search: Work from one side of the cell to the other in a systematic fashion. Search all holes and cracks in furniture, the walls, floors, and the ceiling. Inspect all items in the cell while being respectful of items of personal and cultural significance

Inmate Manipulation

• Ways to not get manipulated by inmates:
  • Don't give inmates anything they're not normally permitted to have
  • Use the word "No" to the answer of the body language. Send the message inmates really want to receive
  • Report suspicious behavior. Verify information and stories before taking any kind of action
  • Always have a witness to anything that you do with an inmate. Never be in an inmate's area on your own
  • If you have done something inappropriate, tell your Deputy
• Inmate behavior:
  • Understand the "penal warning system" and protect yourself from unprofessional boundaries
  • Education when inmates are alone with the officer and understand that you are not the only one going through this process

Contraband and Evidence

• Contraband: Examples include weapons, drugs, tools, chemicals, and medications
• Types of searches:
  • Institutional: Everyone is locked down and searched. Completed twice yearly at RCC
  • Area specific: Cell, Tier, Unit, Vehicle, Canine
• Searching, Contraband, and Evidence: Understand the importance of respect, quality, and privacy while performing a search within a correctional facility

Risk Assessment and Rehabilitation

• Risk needs responsivity analysis (RNR): Understand the importance of building positive relationships with offenders
• Offense analysis: Identify signs and symptoms of potential opioid overdose, including agonal breathing, sweaty, pale, clamy skin, shortness of breath, loss of consciousness, vomiting, and erratic heartbeat
• ASIST training: Explain the "PAL model"

Correctional Facility Security

• Ensuring the safety and security of staff, visitors, and offenders within the correctional facility is of utmost importance.
• Searching is vital to the safety and security of staff, visitors, offenders, and the facility.

Searching Correctional Facilities

• Searching minimizes risk to staff, offenders, and the facility by ensuring no dangerous or non-dangerous contraband is present.
• Searching is essential for maintaining a safe and secure environment.

Types of Searches

• Routine Search: Searching is vital to the safety and security of staff, visitors, offenders, and the facility.
• Non-Routine Search: If you witness an offender in the yard pick up a piece of garbage and place it in his pocket before continuing to walk.

Cell Search Process

• Work from one side of the cell to the other in a systematic fashion.
• Search all holes and cracks in furniture, the walls, floors, and the ceiling.
• Inspect all items in the cell while being respectful of items of personal and cultural significance.

Contraband and Evidence

• Definition of contraband: Any item that is not permitted in a correctional facility.
• Examples of contraband: Weapons, drugs, tools, chemicals, medications, extra bedding, extra food, cleaning supplies, sex devices, tobacco, envelopes, plastic bags and containers, and cash.

Criminal Gang Characteristics

• Pro-criminal attitudes, thoughts, values, and sentiments supportive of criminal behavior.
• Antisocial personality, low self-control, impulsivity, affection for violence, lack of respect for others, callous/unemotional, and interpersonal difficulties.
• Family/marital instability, criminal unemployment, lack of community/social support/poor parenting.

Inmate Manipulation

• Warning signs of manipulation: Hover bags, other things that are not allowed, including not giving inmates anything that they are not normally permitted to have.
• Ways to avoid being manipulated: Verify information and stories before taking any kind of action, always have a witness to anything that you do with an inmate, never be in an inmate's area on your own, and always be professional.

External Escorts

• Body belts shall not be used for external escorts.
• Visitors are subject to search via handheld or walkthrough metal detector.
• Visitors can be frisk searched with authorization from the director or designate.
• Visitors can be denied access to the facility for refusing to comply with a search.

Risk Assessment and Rehabilitation

• Risk needs responsivity analysis (RNR) and offense analysis are important in case management and rehabilitation.
• The Ministry of Corrections, Policing, and Public Safety conducts risk assessments and uses tools to move a client's risk.
• Understanding the importance of respect, quality, and privacy while performing a search within a correctional facility is crucial.

Routine Offender Searches

• Searches are conducted when an offender is leaving work, education, training, or special activities.
• Searches are also conducted when the director or designee determines that there was an opportunity to introduce contraband.
• Offenders are searched when entering or returning to the facility from the community or a non-secure area.
• Searches are conducted when an inmate enters or leaves a segregation or high-security area.

Learn about the importance of searching in correctional facilities to ensure the safety and security of staff, visitors, and offenders. Understand how searching minimizes risk to staff, offenders, and the facility.