The Clinton County Correctional Emergency Response Team recently completed training involving a prison riot to better ensure the safety of the Clinton County community and those within the jail.
From April 27 through May 1, the team participated in the 27th Annual Mock Prison Riot in Moundsville, West Virginia where the team trained alongside teams from 18 countries and 34 different states to practice for and learn about potential prison riots that may occur in any community.
The Mock Prison Riot is designed to show the teams new technologies, techniques and environments that are unavailable anywhere else in the world outside of the facility at Moundsville, West Virginia.
The Clinton County team worked on force-on-force training, cell extractions and K9 techniques with the West Virginia Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to hone their new skills.
The team also focused on other techniques for implementation in Clinton County, such as less-lethal and less-than-lethal techniques as a means of providing the trainees with the best education possible on how to subdue a riot within a prison or jail.
The members present for the Clinton County team were Ryan Denham, Kenan Horlacher, Roel Reyes, Justin Baker, Jacob Nelson, Jonathan Bailey, Chase Miller, Barth Mink and K9 Diesel.
– Photo courtesy of CCSO