Here is some advice on how to run an inmate housing unit. 

I'm a corrections officer/supervisor with the Kansas Department of Corrections, with 12 years under my belt, and I can say you give great advice. I am now a subscriber and I will be recommending your channel to all of our new officers.

Just started a career as a CO at TexasDCJ Your information is very helpful. I’m currently in the training academy. Thanks

Thanks for being a great source of information for people like me that are considering a career in corrections here in Ohio. Other then my friend that works behind the wall its extremely difficult to find any positive info about the job. Your videos and the comments are practically a goldmine!

I just started a career as a CO at a county jail. You give solid advice. I’ll be looking to your channel frequently. Thank you for what you do.

what an underrated channel! you should write a book on parenting, no kidding, it would fly off the shelves! keep up the great content!

👏👏👏👏I’m learning so much. Thank you for sharing this info.

every good information keep up the good work Anthony

Great Topics and Wonderful Advice Mr. Gangi! I Agree 1,000%!

thanks for this, the base-level stuff is interesting

Great advice, thank you.

These videos are awesome I always learn alot

T ONCE AGAIN!!! Great video. But your right! Not everyone can run a unit! I love watching the inmates and trying to gather intel. It just hard at times because there is so many of them and only two of us. But I do the best I can! Once again we need the federal government to see us as law enforcement! Also like you said, When we come along intel about gangs in cells that is law enforcement duties! That will help save people!

Youre a fair guy, i pray youll be able to get contracted to teach this in every state units please

Know your inmates , Know your Staff

Anthony I'm currently binge watching your channel. You are awesome and I am glad you are putting all this information, know how and communication out there. I work for a school district with a small team printing tons of materials for district. We actually run into the millions each month which actually is totally awesome and saves a ton of money... I digress lol. I appreciate how on the head what you say is for even non dangerous environments, i think because politics (keeping them out or knowing what and how they work), communicate, teamwork create a strong successful place to work. I really appreciate the idea of empowering the people on the floor and backing them up because in any team that is awesome! I find myself having worked with my team for such a long time you know whose who and how they will act. We have new people come in and i always try and clue them in. I think good communication is so important... Darn I'm going to stop because I feel I'm rambling but i just wanted to say thank you and you are far more eloquent than I am :) keep up the awesome information and support! I appreciate what you guys and girls do. I have an uncle and cousin who both work as corrections officers. Anyway I hope you had an awesome new years and Christmas!

I'm not in the law enforcement profession but have a few family members who are. They often don't like to speak about it so I really enjoy and appreciate the making of content like this. So far I have this channel and Donut Operator's for some insight.

Anthony, Very good advice. I personally witnessed the Corrections Officers communicating and interacting with the inmates on several different type housing units :Mental Health, Intake, Administrative Segregation, Maximum Security and General Population. Unless you actually see what goes on, it's difficult to appreciate what the CO'S do to control the Unit itself as well as the inmates housed there. Definitely requires very good people skills ! Also, I agree that inmates try to mislead the Mental Health Staff. I always found the Corrections Officers input and observations to be very useful.

Just started here in Garland county AR all most out of my fto program already have set expectations. If they like you, you arent doing it right. Sweat the small stuff 👌

I've known to observe the inmates for their aliases and figure out who is who when the inmates are on the wing, yelling to one another from behind their doors. But you mentioned documenting and that made me think about creating a spreadsheet, with a list of inmates and their 'nicknames' next to it, that way the officers that relieve me, or may be new to my dorm, have an advantage of intel when i'm not there. I appreciate the brainstorming, bud. Stay safe.

So for me, I bounce around all over the place in my facility so verbals are everything, and I use change warnings... usually ten minute ones. If individuals are all locked in, usually there are two inmates that can help pass out food and collect trays in the morning. After that a ten minute warning to shower up or call family before locking back in and unlocking inmates I trust to clean the entire day room before inspection, while letting the rest of the room know they need to know inspection is coming. After that, if they're locked in all day clear questions and verbals of who gets out next for their short allotted time before locking back in. I keep a log and lists of who has been out and when. And obviously who is incompatible to be out at the same time. Sometimes it can be a creativity art at the beginning of a shift to sit and work out rotations so everyone gets the same time in a safe manner but also has a task to do, before they get that ten minute warning. And they like to play games to get more time, you have to just lock them in on time and stand fast on the consistency. if they're all locked in come up with a list of timings

Thanks again!!

Thank you

Main thing is you CANNOT run a unit from your office. You HAVE to move around. Be noisy. Listen to what inmates say & watch what they do. Not ALL inmates are liars. Get to know them. Learn who the shot callers are. Watch for inmates congregating around a particular cell, or bunk. They are doing that for a specific reason, not to pay a social call. Someone there is selling/buying dope. Someone there is giving orders, or making weapons, etc. Go into records, and read inmate's files if they have aroused your attention. You might be shocked at what they're in for. Knowledge is power. Most of ALL be firm but fair. You can go home at the end of your shift they can't. Keep that in mind.

Hi Anthony, What about doing a video on command presence?

Another way that you could learn in a Close Management Units watch your inmate orderlies that work day in and out. Especially in the way how they treat certain inmates that are behind the doors

Qualifications and Perspective: I spent a little over two decades in the FDOC (FLA), roughly half of that in special housing. Run an offender search. You have my name. Seven years or so after the fact, nostalgia brings me here... I would comment: 1) Never trust a convict. This cannot be stressed enough. As soon as you do, you lose control. Your weaknesses are vanity and kindness; the term "vanity" includes the belief that you control much of anything significant that occurs on the wing... besides maybe random shakedowns and that discretion you mention. If you control anything at all, you will do so through respect. Trustworthinesss and honesty are your tools. Not fear. Not logging information (as useful as it may be). Not talking to other cops. Intrapersonal influence (authority/power) may be simply measured: What can you do for me? Being fair and level is all you'll need in most cases. It's a lot from a convict's perspective. 2) Don't accept bullshit under any circumstances; this doesn't mean play tough. Convicts smell fear. Nothing breeds contempt like a p*ssy with a radio that wears his shirt two sizes too small (that vanity again). But don't think you're saving the world in there. If you try, you'll be ridiculed and scorned -- laughed into a guard tower or gun truck for your shift. 3) Best advice ever: Make it look like its running right on admin's program. You can't manage a unit, you get no chance with a shift. Most of your control is appearance anyway. Maximize it. 4) Convicts know what you think they don't; they live in a world where every word is a lie, and where conduct serves as the only guide to character. They watch the routines; they know your strategy, as well as the tactics you employ towards its end. Little matters to them besides what you do... Good luck with your career. Its as honest as any other

I agree 100%!. I stress those exact words to my COs to make their jobs easier but again being a CO is not for everyone.

Of course brother!!!!! Just trying to help!!!!!

The answer no is always good because its easy to turn a no into a yes than a yes into a no.

Hey T. Maybe you could try and step up the thumbnail game!!! I watch a lot of your tubers! It does help draw people in bro!

I need to know more about cuffing and belly chains. Also, do you know anyone who runs a small jail. We only have one Jailor at a time. A Dispatcher is in the tower with me and that it for most of the 12 hour shift. Very little is like what you describe. I'm learning what I can though. Thank you for everything.

Deputy sheriff recruit about to hit jto, love the advice

I currently just started the process of trying to get hired as a jail deputy in Idaho. Any advice to give me the best chance possible to join this amazing job?

I have a question? Because I was watching this movie called Prison of Secrets and should Male staff work in a all women's facility? And should a woman work in a all men's facility?

do what you have to do then let the supervisor know what you did to solve the problem.

I disagree with the disgretion part on if you find stuff. Write it up regardless because then you go down that slippery slope of favortisim

People think we just open and shut doors all day... we spend a good part of our lives with these people It’s too bad that the police and general public don’t hold our knowledge in higher regard, they could learn a lot

I will have to respectfully disagree with telling vice asking, especially when dealing with older people. It's HOW you ask that makes a difference. There are ways to "ask" where the person still knows you're telling them. You ask in a firm but respectful way and if that doesn't work then you tell them. Most older people know what time it is. Show some respect and they'll make sure it gets done right. Play the large and in charge when they've always shown you the due respect and they'll find ways to make your life difficult. 10 years on Navy ships I saw that all the time

Also, remember that the inmates are human beings too....

My ultimate goal is to be a police officer and serve outside the walls, but I am going to work for the state DOC to gain experience and skills to apply in the streets when I later get accepted to a local PD or Sheriff's. Great insight here. I know which video you are referring to. A lot of the "advice" given in it is not good and a lot of it is complaining and people not taking responsibility for what they have done that led them in prison in the first place.

The fucked part is when they cry to the Sgt or captain and they believe the inmate over you!!!! Fuck this shit happens in California a lot!!!

After prison show ain’t it I see that your subscribed 😂

Lol never go to an inmate hell there pretty much FTOs for us

I work a level 3 yard, I’m a yard cop, and each housing unit has a different mentality. So we have to search according to the unit. We do try to spread info but it’s the naive ones, and newer ones, that leak that to the population

Listen to the prisoners, their conversations, watch the prisoners and see who the leaders are. See who's in certain groups. Look for contraband. If they are drinking don't do anything pretend you don'y notice first and second day. Take notes so you can make a bigger arrest. Fife day make a search. Set the prisoners up because they will set you up, when they get the chance. Example - Prisoner setting to the officer, "I'll give you $20.00 to buy me a can of soda?" Answer -," give me the money first You'll get your soda." When he gives you the money Write him up and give an incident report what happened.

Lol surgeon hands

Inmates will never give good advice. At the end of the day they are or were inmates. Against the system so they see only the negatives and not that it's public safety and important.

It's important to document in the log book. Our overnight staff entered the information into a database so the psychiatrists could read it. We went above and beyond until Governor Jay Inslee got elected.