The state Department of Corrections is changing some of its procedures in response to the killing of a female guard at the Monroe prison last weekend.
Jayme Biendl was found strangled in the prison's chapel last Saturday night. An inmate has been arrested in the killing.
Corrections Secretary Eldon Vail said Friday that prisons will immediately:
- begin counting staff members whenever an offender is missing;
- officers will begin regular check-ins on guards who serve at duty posts alone;
- conduct drills on the use of silent alarms on the hand-held radios that guards carry.
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