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For more than an hour Tuesday, Missouri lawmakers debated House Bill 1481, which is sponsored by south St. Louis County Republican Representative Brad Christ.
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(Missourinet) A public safety bill sponsored by Joplin Republican Representative Lane Roberts is making the rounds in the Missouri Senate after previously passi
Missouri prison system could move officer training from classroom to real-world setting
In 2019, Gov. Mike Parson closed a prison in northwest Missouri’s Cameron. Most staff and inmates transferred to the other prison in town – Western Missouri Correctional Center. Now, Parson wants to reopen the Crossroads Correctional Center and turn it into a training academy for correctional officers.
Gov. Mike Parson
During a House Budget Committee hearing, Trevor Foley with the state Department of Corrections, says the officers would have a better sense of the surroundings they would be in.
“Currently, all of our institutional staff receive their training in a classroom setting,” says Foley. “We believe that we can improve the quality of our training by training them in an environment that looks like the one they’re going to be working in. You’d be able to learn how to do a cell search or a cell extraction from an actual cell.”