Mock Prison Riot
Publication year:
2009
| Cataloged on:
May. 07, 2009
ANNOTATION: The annual Mock Prison Riot is held at the former WV Penitentiary in Moundsville, West Virginia. The purpose of the riot is to showcase emerging corrections and law enforcement technologies and to give corrections officers and tactical team members an opportunity to use and evaluate emerging technologies in riot training scenarios.
Exhibitors from a wide variety of manufacturers, entrepreneurs, inventors, and federal laboratories showcase products useful in the event of a riot or of ensuring security. Technologies are incorporated in many of the training scenarios as well as demonstrated outside in the prison yard.
Ultimately the event helps determine the effectiveness of the technologies by placing them in realistic situations and allows for suggestions for modification of the technology. It also provides corrections personnel from throughout the country significant training on how to best approach and handle a riot situation.
Points of entry on this website include: general information; video of the most recent and past Mock Prison Riots, dating back to 2003; exhibitors; teams and scenarios; skills competition; workshops; media; contact information; register; and login.