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Survival checklist: Improvised and unconventional weapons

For hundreds of years, unconventional weapons — weapons made with the intent to kill another person or protect oneself — have been evolving. In the hands inmates, the art has been perfected.

Improvised and unconventional weapons are found inside every correctional facility. Here's what every CO needs to know to anticipate and respond to potential attacks ... Full Story

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MARIN COUNTY, Calif. — San Quentin State Prison inmate Lexy Good is white, hangs out with whites on the prison exercise yard and must be careful not to associate with blacks and Latinos.

It's an unwritten inmate rule of prison life that people stick to their own race. But soon that may change.

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CorrectionsOne Video Training Tip
Edged weapon defense for close quarter attacks
In most knife attacks, an officer may be surprised by a subject attacking him with not only a knife, but a broken bottle, screw driver — anything sharp. These types of attacks can be dangerously spontaneous, which places the officer behind the "survival curve."

In today's C1 video training tip, RedMan Training Division director Dave Young shows you how to create your own distance when other options aren't available ... Full Tip



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