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| Crisis at Canaan: Still no pepper spray for most prison workers |
| By citizensvoice.com - Michael R. Sisak |
| Published: 11/13/2013 |
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They work alongside violent inmates in kitchens, corridors and housing units. They face rampant hostility and physical attack. And they are often the first to respond when a correctional officer calls for help. Yet, despite the promise of enhanced safety and the extensive training they received after a fatal assault at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan in February, thousands of workers at high-security federal prisons have been excluded from carrying pepper spray - an inexpensive tool union officials said has reduced violence and saved lives. Darrell Palmer, the president of the union at Canaan, said this week he assumed the Bureau of Prisons would include all of the facility's employees when it expanded its pepper spray program just three days after prosecutors said inmate Jessie Con-ui ambushed and killed officer Eric Williams. Williams, a Nanticoke native, was working alone in a unit housing more than 100 inmates. Read More. |
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I work for a State Prison in Ga. and we finally started just in the past few weeks, pepper spray to all officers that are certified, we are also making it part of there basic training to become cert. with it. I was sceptical about it at first but it worked out very well so far.