Emergency Count
Are conducted unusual situations arise, such as possible escape, disturbance, an evacuation or when a total of number of inmates is not confirmed or verified with the facility total.
Discipline process are:
Counseling, Verbal warning, written warning, discipline report (DR).
The corrective action should include:
Details of the incident, the officers name, the inmates names, identification number, date, time, location of the violation.
F.S 944.39
False ID is a crime
Counseling
Is an- depth explanation of a rule violation, including suggestions on how the inmate can correct his or her behavior.
33-601.314 F.A.C
The rules of prohibited on mates conduct and penalties for violations or infractions
Florida statues 944.09
provides authority and guidelines for enforcing rules.
there three types of mail:
routine, legal, privileged
the inmates receives two types of visitors:
social or professional
Formal count
this is performed once per shift, and may be conducted at the beginning and the end of the officer shift.
Informal count
verifies the number of inmates in a area.
33.601.714 F.A.C
visitation is a privilege and not a right for inmates and visitation in Florida.
kick back or three-way mail
A common method used by inmates to send illegal communications to another inmates.
Two types of count slips:
Dormitory, formal count slips
The disciplinary process is sometimes called?
Progressive disicpline
Verbal warning can be documented in many ways:
Incident reports, Contact cards, daily logs, computer logs or specific agency forms.
STG
Security threat group
Out Count
This count provides accountability for the location of inmates outside their assigned housing area.
A transport plan should include:
a primary and alternative routine
Written warning
an agency-specific form that documents an inmates rule of violation.
Internal escort
are conducted in the facility secure perimeter when moving one or more inmates from one location to another.
Contact visits
are defined as a visits in which both the visitor and the inmate are in the same room, without a physical barrier, and can have limited physical contact.
Non-contact visits
are defined as visits in which the inmate and visitor are physically separated by some type of barrier or communication through electronic means, such as an audio and video communication system.
What need to be documented
inmates count, meals, sick call, cell searches, clinical visits, security checks, work-group assignments, court appearance, visitation, transports, fights, suicide attempts, fire, natural disaster, riots, escapes or attempts escapes, sexual assaults, use of force, bomb threats, medical and mental emergencies.
the officer may conduct two types of escort in a correctional setting:
internal escort and external escort
balloon
is a contraband that is placed in a sealed and concealed in a body cavity or swallowed for later expulsion.
Disciplinary report (DR)
is a detailed report of the facts surrounding an inmate's violation and sets in motion a series of events that ensures due process.
rule violation or infraction
is an activity or behavior that is not permitted in the correctional facility.
Trailing or chase vehicle
is an additional vehicle following or trailing a transport vehicle to provide additional security.
Disciplinary process
is an administrative function that address minor and major rule violations and is not governed by rules of criminal procedures.
Verbal warning
is an statement to the inmate that he or she has committed a rule violation and should correct the behavior immediately .
unusual occurrences
is any incident that is out of the ordinary and disrupts the normal operations of the facility.
face sheet
is define as a document with a current picture of the inmate, name identification number, physical description, incarceration date, date of birth, end of sentence date, and custody level.
Escort
is define as a movement of an inmate from one point to another accompanied by an officer or staff.
Privileged mail
is define as correspondence to and from public officials, governmental agencies, and the news media.
corrective action
is define as step taken to eliminate the cause of inappropriate or unlawful behavior in order to prevent recurrence.
Transprot
is defined as moving an inmate from the confines of a secure facility
Transfer
is movement of a inmate from one housing location to another.
Classifacation
is responsible for assigning inmates to a work detailed
A work area
is searched to provide safety ans security prior to allowing inmates access.
discipline
is the enforcement of a penalty for a violation of established rules and is used to ensure compliance of those rules.
clinical seclusion
is used to isolate the inmates from the general population at a medical facility for medical and safety reasons.
Master Count
is where a positive identification of each inmate is verified through various items such as armband identification or photo identification cards that includes the facility number, inmates name, date of birth, sex, race.
Legal mail
it contains confidential information concerning legal matters
Progressive Disicpline
it is design to increase the penalty if the inmate dose not correct his or her behavior.
Routine mail
it is the most common type of mail in a correctional facility, and it comes directly through the postal service.
Professional visitors
may include attorney and employees of the attorneys, investigator, bails bondmen, parole and probation officers, law enforcement officers, social service.
Social visitor
may include friends and can be per-registered and scanned for criminal history or active warrants.
External escort
occurs outside the secure perimeter of the facility.
clinical restraints
ordered by the attending physician and are used to keep the inmates from injuring him or herself
