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One of the primary goals of prison and jail administrators is to maintain safe and secure institutions for both staff and incarcerated residents. One promising approach for enhancing institutional safety and mitigating uses of force in correctional settings is body-worn cameras (BWCs).
The interest in BWCs among correctional agencies has been spurred by research on cameras in policing. Studies have found BWCs consistently reduce complaints against police officers (White et al. 2023) and may also lead to reductions in use of force, (Ariel et al., 2015; Jennings et al, 2015; White & Malm, 2020) and injuries to both community members (Henstock, 2015) and officers (Stolzenberg et al., 2019). Thus, the potential for correctional BWCs to generate these outcomes is of paramount interest for jail and prison administrators. Read more.
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