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| Federal prisons embrace pepper spray as antidote to violence |
| By observer-reporter.com |
| Published: 03/13/2015 |
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PHILADELPHIA – The vast majority of federal correctional officers are being equipped with pepper spray, a tool their colleagues in a pilot program say has been a game-changer in prisons where inmates have long tilted the balance of order with shivs and smuggled razor blades. After years of pleas by correctional officers and the murders of two, the Bureau of Prisons is expanding the 2½-year-old program to include workers at all 47 medium-security prisons – which union officials say are often used as way stations for inmates headed to and from high-security facilities – and all five medical facilities. Officers at those facilities started training and carrying pepper spray this month. The program had been limited to high-security prisons and select detention centers and jail units. Read More. |
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