Armory Location

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Campi
The main armory should be outside the perimeter. Depending on the state there are policies that say just that. In Ohio we must have the main armory outside the compound for lethal weapons. We can store less than lethal in a ready armory in our control centers... view full thread

Finally, the Incarceration Race Gap Narrows

Robert Winters, JD

Racial disparities in the U.S. prison population are hardly news to anyone, and certainly not to corrections professionals. The statistics have been so often publicized that many in the field could quote them by rote: The U.S. prison population more than quadrupled from 500,000 in 1980 to 2.2 million by 2015, with minorities contributing most of that growth. The U.S. is home to 25 percent of the world’s inmates despite having only 5 percent of its population…and on and on the statistics roll... read full story

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