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What would you do: Potential gun inside leg cast

This inmate threatened staff with an alleged gun inside of a leg cast - what would you have done?

Alex James Full restraints, two CO’s at all times. If an onsite body scanner is available to use, use it. If results are inconclusive, transport to nearest hospital for x-ray of leg. Then add additional charges and restitution to the state for the cost of the hospital visit and tying up 2 CO’s.

RoseRoy Ellsworth Sometime they put steel braces in the cast and or rods in the leg; best to have it x-rayed. Then terroristic threat added to the charges.

Mark Christie Metal detector to clear the threat, then suicide watch until the cast comes off by medical.

Wendy Mickler Our facility has a scanner. All incoming gets scanned as part of pat downs upon arrival.

Jesse Pease How about using a wand to see if there was metal inside his cast and save thousands of dollars? If the results came back inconclusive do exactly what they did.

Stephanie Muessig-Lafaso Took him to medical and had them cut the cast off

Rick Gates We require an X-Ray before the booking process starts. A lot of cops get mad and pissy because they have to take perp to hospital. But this is one rule we don’t bend!

Brian Berry We have a body scan machine at our facility: Straight to it, in cuffs of course!

Jeremy D Everett Immediately secure him in restraint chair, pat him down; look for opening in cast, run metal detector over him and the possibly X-ray. And video the who thing!

Todd Gilman Inmates are not allowed hard casts in our facility. So if a doctor was available, the hard cast would be removed. If not, a trip to the hospital in full restraints and a police escort followed by the inmate being charged with uttering death threats — even if there was no weapon found.

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