Jailbreak: Preventing Another Vicky White and Casey White

Jailbreak: Preventing Another Vicky White and Casey White

Prison breaks have captured the attention of media and civilians for years, but how many times is a correctional officer involved in, or conducting, t...

Inmate Mental Health Crises: What New Officers Should Know

Inmate Mental Health Crises: What New Officers Should Know

Taking care of your mental health as a corrections officer is difficult enough, let alone managing inmates’ emotional wellness too. Correctional facil...

Mitigating Mental Burnout: Self-Care Strategies for Correctional Officers

Mitigating Mental Burnout: Self-Care Strategies for Correctional Officers

Since 2020, most industries have undergone record-breaking numbers of turnover. Studies found that the most significant reason behind these sky-high s...

How to Remind Disrespectful Inmates of Your Authority

How to Remind Disrespectful Inmates of Your Authority

We know that corrections officers have all experienced an inmate act out of pocket. Screaming. Kicking. Cursing. Self-harming. You name it, they’ve se...

More Than Just a Jailer

More Than Just a Jailer

Reflecting on the 23 years I have worked at the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff’s Office, I look back on this journey that started on December 6, 1999,...

How to Address the Fight-or-Flight Moment

How to Address the Fight-or-Flight Moment

As human beings, we are hardwired to experience stress. Whether the feeling is mental or physical, our bodies are trained to respond to stress in a un...

How Can I Manage Mandatory Overtime and a Healthy Work-Life Balance?

How Can I Manage Mandatory Overtime and a Healthy Work-Life Balance?

Unfortunately, the nation has experienced an influx of shortages since the pandemic, including limited staffing across almost every industry. Companie...

Corrections Stresses & Mental Health Messes

Corrections Stresses & Mental Health Messes

The mental health crisis within the corrections industry is reaching unprecedented levels, and the urgency to address this issue has never been greate...

How to Carry Yourself in Corrections

How to Carry Yourself in Corrections

After learning a new lesson, have you ever thought “Well, that would’ve been nice to know earlier”? We’ve all had moments where we wished we’d known s...

One Voice United Appointed Ken Dalley to Serve as Commissioner Focusing on Correctional Staff Wellness

One Voice United Appointed Ken Dalley to Serve as Commissioner Focusing on Correctional Staff Wellness

As a global leader in inmate tracking and officer experience platforms (OXPs), GUARDIAN RFID was pleased to announce that Ken Dalley, Founder, Chairma...

Preventing Inmate Suicide

Preventing Inmate Suicide

Suicide affects all different kinds of people from all different walks of life. Different cultures. Different races. Different income classes. Differe...

The Top 5 Things to Know When Using a Restraint Chair

The Top 5 Things to Know When Using a Restraint Chair

When you think of a restraint chair, you may think about a drug smuggler who failed his mission duct-taped to a chair, hooded, and beaten. These unrea...

Obstacles That Female Correctional Officers Face

Obstacles That Female Correctional Officers Face

The corrections profession is like none other. Over 400,000 brave men and women work eight to twelve-hour shifts to maintain order within the walls th...

How the Corrections Career Can Impact the Families of Officers

How the Corrections Career Can Impact the Families of Officers

Caterina Spinaris, Ph.D., LPC, Founding Director of Desert Waters Correctional Outreach, has 21 years of experience working with correctional officers...

Correctional Professionals in the Eye of the Pandemic’s Storm

Correctional Professionals in the Eye of the Pandemic’s Storm

Article by Aric Asplund, President of International EnviroGuard The brave men and women who work with hardened criminals in the nation’s prison system...

Breaking the “I’m Good” Code of Silence

Breaking the “I’m Good” Code of Silence

Desert Waters Correctional Outreach, Inc., is a 2003 Colorado-based 501(c)(3) corporation which helps correctional agencies counter Corrections Fatigu...

We Suffer in Silence
How to Feel Your Best When You See the Worst

How to Feel Your Best When You See the Worst

By Amy Morgan, MSC, CFRC(D), TECC-LEO If asked which we prefer, feeling happy or feeling depressed, I don’t think any of us would choose “I like to fe...

Jailbreak: Preventing Another Vicky White and Casey White

Jailbreak: Preventing Another Vicky White and Casey White

Alyssa Pfaff

Prison breaks have captured the attention of media and civilians for years, but how many times is a correctional officer involved in, or conducting, t...

Inmate Mental Health Crises: What New Officers Should Know

Inmate Mental Health Crises: What New Officers Should Know

Alyssa Pfaff

Taking care of your mental health as a corrections officer is difficult enough, let alone managing inmates’ emotional wellness too. Correctional facil...

Mitigating Mental Burnout: Self-Care Strategies for Correctional Officers

Mitigating Mental Burnout: Self-Care Strategies for Correctional Officers

Kenzie Koch

Since 2020, most industries have undergone record-breaking numbers of turnover. Studies found that the most significant reason behind these sky-high s...

How to Remind Disrespectful Inmates of Your Authority

How to Remind Disrespectful Inmates of Your Authority

Kenzie Koch

We know that corrections officers have all experienced an inmate act out of pocket. Screaming. Kicking. Cursing. Self-harming. You name it, they’ve se...

More Than Just a Jailer

More Than Just a Jailer

Clair R. Swain

Reflecting on the 23 years I have worked at the Lewis and Clark County Sheriff’s Office, I look back on this journey that started on December 6, 1999,...

How to Address the Fight-or-Flight Moment

How to Address the Fight-or-Flight Moment

Mark Cowley

As human beings, we are hardwired to experience stress. Whether the feeling is mental or physical, our bodies are trained to respond to stress in a un...

How Can I Manage Mandatory Overtime and a Healthy Work-Life Balance?

How Can I Manage Mandatory Overtime and a Healthy Work-Life Balance?

Mark Cowley

Unfortunately, the nation has experienced an influx of shortages since the pandemic, including limited staffing across almost every industry. Companie...

Corrections Stresses & Mental Health Messes

Corrections Stresses & Mental Health Messes

Mark Cowley

The mental health crisis within the corrections industry is reaching unprecedented levels, and the urgency to address this issue has never been greate...

How to Carry Yourself in Corrections

How to Carry Yourself in Corrections

Chris Riedmueller

After learning a new lesson, have you ever thought “Well, that would’ve been nice to know earlier”? We’ve all had moments where we wished we’d known s...

One Voice United Appointed Ken Dalley to Serve as Commissioner Focusing on Correctional Staff Wellness

One Voice United Appointed Ken Dalley to Serve as Commissioner Focusing on Correctional Staff Wellness

Kenzie Koch

As a global leader in inmate tracking and officer experience platforms (OXPs), GUARDIAN RFID was pleased to announce that Ken Dalley, Founder, Chairma...

Preventing Inmate Suicide

Preventing Inmate Suicide

Kenzie Koch

Suicide affects all different kinds of people from all different walks of life. Different cultures. Different races. Different income classes. Differe...

The Top 5 Things to Know When Using a Restraint Chair

The Top 5 Things to Know When Using a Restraint Chair

Kenzie Koch

When you think of a restraint chair, you may think about a drug smuggler who failed his mission duct-taped to a chair, hooded, and beaten. These unrea...

Obstacles That Female Correctional Officers Face

Obstacles That Female Correctional Officers Face

Kenzie Koch

The corrections profession is like none other. Over 400,000 brave men and women work eight to twelve-hour shifts to maintain order within the walls th...

How the Corrections Career Can Impact the Families of Officers

How the Corrections Career Can Impact the Families of Officers

Kenzie Koch

Caterina Spinaris, Ph.D., LPC, Founding Director of Desert Waters Correctional Outreach, has 21 years of experience working with correctional officers...

Correctional Professionals in the Eye of the Pandemic’s Storm

Correctional Professionals in the Eye of the Pandemic’s Storm

Aric Asplund, President of International EnviroGuard

Article by Aric Asplund, President of International EnviroGuard The brave men and women who work with hardened criminals in the nation’s prison system...

Breaking the “I’m Good” Code of Silence

Breaking the “I’m Good” Code of Silence

Caterina G. Spinaris, Ph.D., LPC

Desert Waters Correctional Outreach, Inc., is a 2003 Colorado-based 501(c)(3) corporation which helps correctional agencies counter Corrections Fatigu...

We Suffer in Silence

We Suffer in Silence

Lieutenant Bryan Hughes

By Lieutenant Bryan Hughes

How to Feel Your Best When You See the Worst

How to Feel Your Best When You See the Worst

Amy Morgan, MSC

By Amy Morgan, MSC, CFRC(D), TECC-LEO If asked which we prefer, feeling happy or feeling depressed, I don’t think any of us would choose “I like to fe...