Title: Overcrowded Prisons and Officer Safety
Headings: Overcrowded Prisons and Officer Safety
Overcrowded Prisons and Officer Safety
Inmate classification
Heath care and mental heath care
Telephone availability
Inmate recreation
Clothing exchange
Increase in sickness and diseases
Visiting
Inmate stores
Increased assaults on officers and increased inmate on inmate assaults
Lack of equipment
Emergency response teams
Housing areas
Feeding
Evacuations
Security checks and counts
Searches
Discipline housing
Inmates sleeping in "canoes"
Supervision
Training
Staffing
Conclusion

Content: For example, a rioting group of 60 male gang members came within seconds of breaking open the door of a dayroom. Had these inmates succeeded in breaking open the door, there would have been many injuries to staff and inmates. When inmates are housed in areas never intended for inmate living, often the security cameras are insufficient due to blind spots. Inmates learn very quickly where these blind spots are located. If the places where inmates are housed in overcrowded prisons do not have regulation smoke alarms, fire sprinklers, and evacuation routes, and if a fire breaks out, the officers are at greater risk when they attempt to rescue the inmates. A lack of fire suppression alarms/sprinklers affects the officers as well as the inmates. Feeding
Feeding inmates in overcrowded jails and prisons can be problematic. Some times when the food finally reaches the inmates, it is not at regulation temperature. Besides the possibility of the food being unsafe to eat, it causes the inmates to become angry over food not being served at the right temperature. Angry inmates pose a greater threat to the staff.