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Michigan Prisons Credit Tasers For Guard Attack Drop
By monroenews.com
Published: 08/27/2013

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's prison system is crediting the introduction of Tasers for a drop in attacks on its employees since the stun guns were introduced 20 months ago

The Michigan Department of Corrections issued the electronic devices in five prisons in December 2011 and expanded the deployment systemwide last year. They have been used 576 times since Oct. 1, 2012, a rate of about twice a day. #Prisoners attacked Corrections Department employees 579 times in 2012, down from 644 in 2011 and 688 in 2010, according to the Lansing State Journal (http://on.lsj.com/19G1Iea ).

Staff are no longer having to physically break up inmate-on-inmate altercations," department spokesman Russ Marlan said. "We saw a significant number of employees injured for that reason."

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