The Department of Corrections team is known as CERT. It stands for the Correctional Emergency Response Team. Author: Ashlyn Webb (WMAZ) Updated: 11:58 PM EDT May 12, 2021
MACON, Ga. A week after an inmate allegedly stabbed and killed Deputy Christopher Knight, Bibb County Sheriff David Davis announced changes coming to the jail, including a new training from a Department of Corrections Team.
The team is known as CERT. It stands for the Correctional Emergency Response Team.
Major Eric Woodford says the tragic death of Deputy Christopher Knight inside the Bibb County jail s own walls was eye-opening for the sheriff s office. He says from that, Sheriff Davis and other administrators at the jail wanted to find ways to run the jail differently and improve.