Jail Management Past Paper (Missouri P.O.S.T. Commission)

**OBJECTIVES** BLOCK: 800 Patrol and Jail Management SECTION: 806 Basic Security Principals TIME ALLOTTED: 3 hours DATE EFFECTIVE: 02/15/2025 REPLACES: 07/01/2007 [SYNOPSIS:] This section covers the fundamentals of daily facility management from a security and supervision perspective. Perhaps...

**OBJECTIVES** BLOCK: 800 Patrol and Jail Management SECTION: 806 Basic Security Principals TIME ALLOTTED: 3 hours DATE EFFECTIVE: 02/15/2025 REPLACES: 07/01/2007 [SYNOPSIS:] This section covers the fundamentals of daily facility management from a security and supervision perspective. Perhaps the most dangerous element of jail officer\'s role is \"apathy.\" This section will emphasize the three topical areas of: inmate searches, the control and security of the detention area, and contraband control. It will also cover two basic elements of professional supervision. [OBJECTIVES:] The trainee will be able to: 1\. Identify the correct process to \"strip search\" a prisoner as part of the admissions process. 2\. Identify the three other appropriate times (or conditions) when strip searches could be used, besides for the admissions process. 3\. Identify the different purpose(s) for conducting a \"frisk search\" rather than a strip search. 4\. Identify three important considerations to be followed while conducting a frisk search that will make it effective but will also contribute to a positive jail climate. 5\. Demonstrate the correct procedures for conducting a frisk search. As an alternative, the trainee will be able to state or write the steps involved. 6\. Identify the major reasons or purpose to conduct cell searches in a facility. 7\. Identify the guidelines that should be used to conduct an effective cell search. 8\. Identify the purpose of making security inspections within the facility. 9\. Identify the correct way to make counts of inmates. 10\. Identify the means used to control (or secure) all weapons in a jail or detention facility. 11\. Identify the two types of contraband which if not controlled, can cause security concerns within the facility. 12\. Identify the answers to some basic questions (that every jail officer should have complete answers to) so he/she can respond appropriately to emergency situations within a facility. 13\. Identify the reason(s) for maintaining good supervision in the jail or detention facility. 14\. Identify the general rules that best demonstrate when a jail or detention officer is displaying a professional and consistent approach in dealing with prisoners. 15\. Identify the three main objectives in supervising any \"sick call\" in the facility. 16\. Identify the special supervisory requirements for conducting \"professional\" visits. 17\. Identify the three main criteria to consider when an inmate is being evaluated for trustee status. 18. Identify the characteristics of prisoner(s) prone to committing suicide in a **custodial** 19. Identify the best procedures for transporting prisoners from one facility to another. SOURCE DOCUMENT =============== BLOCK: 800 Patrol and Jail Management SECTION: 806 Basic Security Principals TIME ALLOTTED: 3 hours DATE EFFECTIVE: 02/15/2025 REPLACES: 07/01/2007 1. a\. One of the best ways to ensure the secure and safe operation of your facility is by frequent, thorough searches. These searches may be made of persons or the facility. b. To thoroughly "strip search" a person: i. Begin with an examination of the person's head. 1. you may use your fingers. 2. you may use a large, wide-toothed comb. ii. Next, using a flashlight -- 1. look into and behind both prisoner's ears. 2. look into the mouth and under the tongue. 3. look up the nose. iii. Next -- 1. request the prisoner to raise his/her arms and carefully examine the armpit area. 2. request the prisoner to open both hands and carefully examine the backs, palms, and between the fingers. iv. At any location on the person that you observe tape or bandages -- 1. remove it and inspect the area and the tape or bandage. 2. replace it with clean sterile ones if necessary. 3. complete this before continuing the body search. v. Again, using the flashlight, carefully examine the prisoner's groin area. vi. Now, require the prisoner to turn around, bend over, and spread his/her buttocks. 1. using the flashlight closely examine the prisoner's rectum. 2. keep in mind that usually there is no need for you to touch the prisoner. 3. in fact, if you decide that a "body cavity search" needs to be done, follow the policy and procedure of your facility and the requirements of state law. vii. The last step is to have the prisoner lift his/her feet so you can examine the soles and between the toes carefully. viii. 2. a\. After open access visits when the officer suspects the prisoner has received contraband. b. After prisoners return to the facility from outside visits or trips. c. Anytime the officer believes the prisoner might be hiding contraband. 3. a\. It's done while the prisoner remains clothed. b. It's used only to locate contraband -- not to detect body lice, or injuries, or tattoos, etc... c. It can be done at any time the prisoner is in the facility. 4. a\. Make it systematic and orderly. b. Use great care and attention. (Don't let anyone or anything distract you.) c. Whenever possible, conduct it away from the sight of other prisoners. i. ii. Your attention will not be so easily divided. 5. a\. The frisk search will be taught, and trainees will practice it on one another. b. To prepare for the frisk search -- i. Ask the prisoner to remove all items on their person and place them in an area away from the search. If the prisoner is wearing a hat, have him/her take it off; items can be placed in the hat and set away from the search. \* ii. Next, require the prisoner to stand still with his/her feet apart and arms extended c. Conduct the physical search in the following manner -- i. Start with the shirt collar. Run it between your fingers; feel for objects. ii. Move your hands downward, running them over the shoulders, down the outside of each arm to the shirt cuffs or wrists. Then move up the insides of the arms to the armpits. iii. After carefully checking the armpits, run your hands down the shirt front, checking the pockets, stopping at the waist or belt line. iv. Check the waistline by running your fingers around the inside of the waistband and behind the belt. v. From the waistline, run your hands down the prisoner's buttocks (feel carefully). vi. Move both your hands to one leg and feel carefully down the leg. Check the trouser cuff. Repeat the process on the other leg. vii. Run your hands over the prisoner's lower abdomen and crotch area very carefully. viii. When you wish, check the prisoner's socks and shoes carefully. ix. Before returning any personal items the prisoner (or you) had removed and set aside, inspect them carefully. d. Female prisoners are searched in the same sequence as males. i. More attention should be given to the breasts. ii. The search **should** be done by a female officer. 6. The major reason (or purpose) is to control contraband in the facility. 7. a\. In preparing to conduct a cell search when it is occupied: i. ii. b. When conducting a cell search: i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. 1. books, magazines, etc... 2. letters, papers, envelopes 3. boxes, cans, containers (look for false bottoms or spaces) 4. clothing, etc... 5. ask yourself, "If I were a prisoner, where would I hide contraband?" c. The final step in conducting a cell search is -- leave the cell as neat as it was when you 8\. a. The purpose of security inspections is the same in any jail regardless of its size or usage -- b. No matter how well built a facility is, none is escape proof! i. In the last analysis of escapes, the inmate has escaped from the personnel running the facility, not from the facility's concrete and steel. 9\. a. Inmate counts should be made -- i. ii. b. Inmate counts must -- i. Be made by **seeing** "living breathing flesh" and ii. Never be taken based on verbal roll call. c. Two **DO NOTS** in prison counts are -- i. Do not let trustees or any prisoner(s) perform the counts. ii. Do not let prisoners move around while the count is in progress, and interruptions by anyone should be prohibited. 10\. The facility should provide storage space for securing all weapons and have specific procedures in place, including: a\. Having officers delivering prisoners surrender their weapons before entering themselves, but **after** the prisoner has been admitted. b\. making the jail or detention officer on duty responsible for ensuring that all weapons are removed and safely stored. c\. where armories, safes, or locked cabinets are provided, making sure the keys are kept away from prisoners. 11\. Contraband is classified as either: a. b. 12\. a. Emergency situations fall into the respective categories of: i. Riots and hostage taking ii. Fires and explosives iii. Escapes iv. Natural disasters (earthquake or 1993 floods) v. The basic questions are: b\. When an emergency arises, **whom** should you report to immediately and how? i. What are your **specific duties** in each type of emergency listed above in (a)? ii. What equipment should you use in each of these emergencies? iii. Do you know how to use the equipment and have you practiced using the equipment? iv. Where is the necessary equipment for each type of emergency stored and is it regularly inspected? 13. a\. Maintaining good supervision depends on the ability of the jail staff to plan, initiate, and evaluate all of the jail/facility activities. b\. Supervision is aimed at accomplishing **two** primary things: i. getting people to do what is required of them. ii. developing an orderly, controlled environment. c\. Conversely, poor supervision may result in: i. ii. iii. iv. 14\. Any officer who supervises prisoners should keep in mind these **general rules** when in contact with prisoners: a. Avoid familiarity with prisoners (this does not mean (s)he can't be friendly or concerned about the prisoner's well-being). b. Do not gossip with prisoners. c. Do not give advice to prisoner. d. Do not show favoritism to any prisoners(s). e. Never make a promise which you cannot keep. 15\. Supervision of sick call is concerned with three main objectives. They are: a. administration of proper attention to all prisoners with medical complaints. b. Control of the administration and taking of all medicine. c. Control of prisoner behavior during the actual sick call procedure (includes within the facility or when taken outside the facility). 16\. a. Professional visits have supervisory requirements that are different from those followed for **regular** family visits. b. When supervising a professional visit, a jail officer must be concerned with: i\. making sure the visit is completely confidential - a. there are no electronic devices being used to listen to conversation. b. That no one is intentionally listening to or overhearing the conversation. c. That should an officer accidentally hear the conversation, (s)he does not repeat it or discuss it. 17\. a. There are three main considerations when evaluating a person for trustee status. i. Is the person a security risk? ii. Does the person have good work habits? iii. Has the person's behavior in confinement been consistent and untroublesome? b\. Always remember that a trustee is still an inmate. Don't be the kind of jail officer who thinks the term **trustee** means "to be trusted". If you do, eventually your job or your life will be in jeopardy! 18. Once incarcerated, inmates will both display certain characteristics associated with potential suicides and/or react suicidally to certain characteristic conditions or time frames. These characteristics include: a. Signs of deep depression such as -- i. When the person keeps to himself and avoids talking to others. ii. When the person says very little and when (s)he does talk, usually speaks weakly and slowly. iii. Extreme restlessness. iv. The inability to sleep. b. Signs of general behavior change such as -- i. Self-talk ii. Staring into space iii. Crying iv. Neglected hygiene v. Weight loss vi. Giving personal possessions away c. External factors such as -- i. The first twenty-four hours of incarceration ii. Bad news received (spouse wants a divorce, won't bring kids or visit, deaths, etc.) iii. Court dates or probation/parole hearings that don't result the way the inmate hoped for. iv. Abuse within the institution. v. Any other traumatic event above the normal stress of incarceration. A. Transporting prisoners by vehicle. i. Transportation of prisoners under resistance should be carried out quietly and efficiently, with as little public display as possible. ii. Prisoners being transported should be kept in necessary restraining equipment at all times to prevent escape. iii. Every person who is physically restrained thinks of escape at one time or another. iv. Never assume that a restraining device cannot be removed by the prisoner. v. Employ caution while applying handcuffs; double-locking of cuffs should always be employed. vi. If waist chains are available, each prisoner would be secured separately. vii. Use single or double chain method. viii. Firearms should be concealed and constantly protected; with person having direct contact with prisoner being unarmed and under constant observation of the armed officer. ix. If a prisoner escapes, the nearest law enforcement agency must be notified. x. All restraints should be examined frequently to discourage escape manipulation. xi. Seating of prisoners will vary with the agency. However, one and two prisoner diagrams attached. xii. Search vehicle prior to loading and after unloading for contraband. i. The lack of restraints allows for a variety of options for an escape attempt. ii. Risk assessment must be made prior to permitting a prisoner to use any eating utensils. iii. The lavatory on a commercial airline must be inspected for contraband prior to usage by the prisoner. Escort the prisoner to the lavatory and keep him under surveillance while inside. Either go inside with him or keep the door partially open to observe. If door is kept open, put your foot against it so it cannot be locked. iv. When transporting a prisoner by commercial airline, the airline should be notified. v. Prisoner should be seated on the plane before the general public is admitted, and the prisoner and escorting officer should be the last to leave the plane. vi. Before leaving the plane, the officer should place handcuffs on the prisoner; other restraints can be used out of the terminal. vii. Prisoner should be seated next to the wall (bulkhead) in the rear of the aircraft, but not near an emergency exit. viii. Prisoners are never to be secured to a moving vehicle or aircraft with anything other than seat belts. ix. Escorting officers are to be seated on the aisle side of the prisoner. x. Closely supervise the movements of the prisoner. Reference materials for this block include: - The Revised Statutes, State of Missouri, primarily Chapter 221. - The Proposed "Jail Standards 1982-83", developed and written by the Missouri Sheriffs' Association in an attempt to establish a minimum training standard for jail and corrections officers in the State of Missouri. - Policy Review written by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the National Law Enforcement Policy Center. - "Jail Policy and Procedure" developed by the National Sheriffs' Association. - "Jail Operations: A Training Course for Jail Officers," which is a programmed instruction course based on the text, *The Jail: Its Operation and Management.* Published by the United States Bureau of Prisons under a grant from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. - (Source for both modes of transportation is the U.S. Department of Justice, United States Marshal Service Publication regarding prisoner transportation.)