CAREER SURVIVAL FOR DETENTION OFFICERS CON GAMES Training

CAREER SURVIVAL FOR DETENTION OFFICERS CON GAMES

Training Objectives 1. Explain the selection process used by inmates when trying to develop a manipulation scheme involving officers. 2. Discuss the tools used by inmates to manipulate an officer during a con game. 3. Identify the steps of the turnout process and what an officer should do if he finds himself in the turnout process. 4. Analyze and discuss various cases of officers that have become involved in con games.

Think About It! "Every time you walk into a jail or prison, you cross a border. It is like walking into another country. " - Unknown Correctional Officer

INTENTIONAL SELECTION Naiveté § Green Over-familiarization § Personally involved § Discussing personal problems § Gullible § First names § Ignorant http: //images. inmagine. com/img/ thinkstock/tstock_single 1/c 0024 295. jpg § Inconsistencies in the rules of enforcement § Promise favors to inmates that are not within the officer's scope of responsibilities

ACCIDENTAL SELECTION Hidden Weakness Any trait possessed by an employee that inmates can construe as a weakness can result in that individual’s selection as a victim of a set-up. Change in job assignment or family status Inmates know that changes or anticipated changes can tend to make an officer more vulnerable to inmates' attention. http: //pinalcountyaz. gov/Departments/Sheriff/Recruiting. Info/Publishing. Images/Detention-Officer. jpg

MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS Power orientation is best described as the criminal's preoccupation with attaining a sense of dominion over others and absolute control over his or her environment. Revenge An inmate's effort to retaliate against a staff member because of perceived mistreatment or neglect. Status Acting out, refusing to cooperate, or disobeying rules and being willing to do so regardless of the punishment, gives status among peers.

TOOLS OF A SET-UP The we/they syndrome The support system Offer of protection Empathy and/ or sympathy Allusion to sex Plea for help The touch system Confidentiality The rumor clinic http: //familyrights. us/specials/bin/prison_orange/prisonj. jpg

The Turnout Process The "turnout" is an officer, who by the means of deception and manipulation, has successfully been coerced into supplying inmates with contraband or corrupting favors. http: //www. amarillo. com/images/headlines/042702/prisonguards. jpg

The TURNOUT PROCESS SHOPPING LIST Drugs It is important to note that an inmate will initially solicit contraband on a one-time-only basis. Alcohol Money Weapons Sex The reality, however, is that once this demand is met, requests will continue until the game is discovered by the administration.

THE LEVER A lever, in a detention facility, is a seemingly harmless minor infraction of the rules of the facility. 1) Giving an inmate an extra food tray. 2) Mailing a letter for an inmate 3) Looking the other way in regards to infractions to the rules

ROSES The of in a rose bush seems innocent; as Yetlook come contact with it, andquite its sting from the a matter of fact, the feels bush most appears very attractive. thorns painful.

THE STING The officer must now decide to "Do as you are told or you will be harmed. ” If the officer succumbs to the threatened use of the lever or the threatened use of force and brings in contraband or performs illicit favors, the inmates have won the battle of the minds. http: //static. guim. co. uk/sys-images/Society/Pix/pictures/2008/05/06/prisoner. guard 460. 276. jpg

OFFICER’S OPTIONS Resignation Self-reporting Awareness http: //www. michalak. org/fh/fvj_official 17. jpg

Training Objectives 1. Explain the selection process used by inmates when trying to develop a manipulation scheme involving officers. 2. Discuss the tools used by inmates to manipulate an officer during a con game. 3. Identify the steps of the turnout process and what an officer should do if he finds himself in the turnout process. 4. Analyze and discuss various cases of officers that have become involved in con games.

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FINAL QUOTE The intelligent detention officer imposes the will of the facility on the inmate. But does not allow the inmate's will to be imposed on him.