1. CAREER SURVIVAL FOR DETENTION OFFICERS
Con
games

2. Training Objectives
Explain the selection process used by inmates when trying to develop a manipulation scheme involving officers.
Discuss the tools used by inmates to manipulate an officer during a con game.
Identify the steps of the turnout process and what an officer should do if he finds himself in the turnout process.
Analyze and discuss various cases of officers that have become involved in con games.

3. - Unknown Correctional Officer
Think About It!
"Every time you walk into a jail or prison, you cross a border. It is like walking into another country."
- Unknown Correctional Officer

4. INTENTIONAL SELECTION
Naiveté
Over-familiarization
Green
Gullible
Ignorant
Personally involved
Discussing personal problems
First names
Inconsistencies in the rules of enforcement
Promise favors to inmates that are not within the officer's scope of responsibilities

5. ACCIDENTAL SELECTION Change in job assignment or family status
Hidden Weakness
Change in job assignment or family status
Any trait possessed by an employee that inmates can construe as a weakness can result in that individual’s selection as a victim of a set- up.
Inmates know that changes or anticipated changes can tend to make an officer more vulnerable to inmates' attention.

6. MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS Power Revenge Status
Power orientation is best described as the criminal's preoccupation with attaining a sense of dominion over others and absolute control over his or her environment.
Revenge
An inmate's effort to retaliate against a staff member because of perceived mistreatment or neglect.
Status
Acting out, refusing to cooperate, or disobeying rules and being willing to do so regardless of the punishment, gives status among peers.

7. TOOLS OF A SET-UP The we/they syndrome The support system
Offer of protection
Empathy and/
or sympathy
Allusion to sex
Plea for help
The touch system
Confidentiality
The rumor clinic

8. The Turnout Process
The "turnout" is an officer, who by the means of deception and manipulation, has successfully been coerced into supplying inmates with contraband or corrupting favors.

9. The TURNOUT
PROCESS
SHOPPING LIST
Drugs
Alcohol
Money
Weapons
Sex
It is important to note that an inmate will initially solicit contraband on a one-time-only basis.
The reality, however, is that once this demand is met, requests will continue until the game is discovered by the administration.

10. The Lever
A lever, in a detention facility, is a seemingly harmless minor infraction of the rules of the facility.
1) Giving an inmate an extra food tray.
2) Mailing a letter for an inmate
3) Looking the other way in regards to infractions to the rules

11. ROSES
Yet come in contact with it, and its sting from the thorns feels most painful.
The look of a rose bush seems quite innocent; as a matter of fact, the bush appears very attractive.

12. THE STING
The officer must now decide to "Do as you are told or you will be harmed.” If the officer succumbs to the threatened use of the lever or the threatened use of force and brings in contraband or performs illicit favors, the inmates have won the battle of the minds.

13. OFFICER’S OPTIONS Resignation Self-reporting Awareness

14. Case Studies

15. Training Objectives
Explain the selection process used by inmates when trying to develop a manipulation scheme involving officers.
Discuss the tools used by inmates to manipulate an officer during a con game.
Identify the steps of the turnout process and what an officer should do if he finds himself in the turnout process.
Analyze and discuss various cases of officers that have become involved in con games.

16. Questions?
Questions?
Questions?

17. FINAL
QUOTE
The intelligent detention officer imposes the will of the facility on the inmate. But does not allow the inmate's will to be imposed on him.