General operational and educational information for corrections professionals. Not legal, medical, or compliance advice, and not a certification of compliance with any law or standard. Policies and standards vary by agency and jurisdiction; follow your facility's policy and your own legal, medical, and professional advisors.
Helping every correctional facility get safer. Always free. No login. Nothing stored.
Every corrections professional deserves access to professional safety intelligence tools, whether they buy from us or not. These are the tools we would want at the booking desk, after a serious incident, and when a facility administrator is sizing up their own risk. The browser tools require no account and transmit nothing you enter; the Digest asks only for what delivery requires. Use them, forward them, keep them.
A ten-minute self-assessment of your facility across self-harm, PREA, detox, blind spots, staffing strain, documentation, and response discipline. You get a Safety Intelligence score, your top exposure points, and what to fix in the next 30 days. Runs in the browser; nothing is saved.
Open the Self-AssessmentA guided booking-intake screen that walks an officer through the risks that get missed at intake, medical, mental health and suicide, detox and MAT continuity, PREA vulnerability, classification, and human-trafficking indicators, and tells them who to refer to and when. It guides; it does not diagnose. Runs in the browser; nothing is saved.
Open JANUS™A guided way to reconstruct a serious incident after the fact, the first visible signal, when staff became aware, the response, the timeline and documentation gaps, and what could have been caught earlier. Produces a clean timeline, a structured root-cause review, a corrective-action plan, and a leadership summary you can print. Runs in the browser; nothing is saved.
Open the Debrief BuilderA free monthly intelligence brief for corrections leaders covering the incidents, lawsuits, legislation, funding, and operational developments worth knowing. Every signal answers the same four questions, what happened, why it matters, who owns it, and what to do next, in a format you can forward to your team. Sign up once and it comes to you.
Subscribe to the DigestThese tools help you find the gap. VPT's Safety Intelligence Audit shows what is actually happening inside your facility, on the cameras you already have, and where intervention will matter most.
The VPT Safety Intelligence Toolbox exists to help every correctional facility become safer, whether they work with us or not.
Every one of these is written to be run by a facility on its own, without buying anything and without our involvement.
Run by a shift supervisor. Tests whether your observation rounds can actually be corroborated.
The booking-desk review: what to ask, what to observe, and what to record.
Safe handling, documentation, and chain of custody at booking.
What a serious review would find, before somebody else runs it.
Six headings, sixty minutes, one page of record a month. Runs with a legal pad.
The sixty-second sequence and the seven fields to record every time.
The questions worth asking in the first two weeks, before retention expires.
The coverage walkthrough, written for Kentucky county facilities.
The method, in order, including clock reconciliation and how to mark gaps.
How to measure the share of a day your facility cannot account for.
