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| CT gets stricter |
| By Corrections.com |
| Published: 11/13/2006 |
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After Human Rights Watch reported that Connecticut was the only state still using trained dogs during difficult inmate cell extractions, CTDOC public information officer Brian Garnet today indicated that the DOC has tightened up the wording of their dog use policy. “As a result of the Human Rights Watch study, Governor M. Jodi Rell asked our commissioner to review our dog procedures and, if appropriate, revise them,” Garnet said. “As a result of that request, we have changed some language in our directives; one on use of force and one on canines. The old directive read that the threshold for utilizing a dog in cell extraction was used when there was clear danger to staff and inmates. That has been revised to say canines are only used in the extraction of an inmate from a cell only when there is an imminent threat to the life of staff, inmates and or the public.” Garnet added that the CTDOC has used highly trained canine teams since the mid-eighties and that the animals have proven extremely effective for drug interdiction, crowd control and drug searches. However, for cell extractions he said the dogs were used very rarely and only under extreme circumstances. |
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