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| Staff Training Issue At County Jail |
| By citizensvoice.com |
| Published: 01/24/2011 |
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A state Department of Corrections review of the Lackawanna County Prison released in the fall cited the lack of staff training as one of the deficiencies inspectors found at the jail. This week, the prison will take another step toward remedying the issue. At the request of Interim Warden Vincent Mooney, instructors from the DOC Training Academy in Elizabethtown are due at the prison beginning today to train 47 corrections officers on the proper procedures for removing a combative or disruptive inmate from his cell. "The cell extractions that I have witnessed up to this point leave people vulnerable to get hurt," said Mooney, who has been on loan to the prison since November from the State Correctional Institution at Dallas, where he is deputy superintendent. "If they are not properly trained, then we as administrators have failed the staff. If we are expecting them to do something and we are putting them in harm's way, it is our responsibility to ensure they are properly trained." Read More. |
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