Controlling emergency situations and maintaining security
The Employee Manual's own escapes-and-emergencies section is fully redacted in DOCCS's public posting. DOCCS Directive #4944 and the unredacted fire-safety section carry this area instead.
Directive #4944, Use of Physical Force
DOCCS's current public directive (dated April 28, 2023) sets an objective-reasonableness standard for the use of force, drawing on Graham v. Connor, and defines chokeholds, neck restraints and high-impact force as prohibited except where deadly physical force is itself authorized. It states a duty to intervene when a staff member reasonably believes another's use of force is excessive, and a positional-asphyxia protocol for anyone restrained face-down. None of this is guesswork about what a redacted Manual section might say — it is DOCCS's own current, published standard.
Fire and other facility emergencies
Section 21 of the Employee Manual (Fire Prevention, Fire Fighting, and Safety) is not redacted, and it names two further directives: #4060 ('Facility Fire Prevention') and #4902 ('Facility Fires and Related Emergencies'). It states that the ranking security officer on duty is responsible for security, safety and evacuation during a fire until the Fire/Safety Officer arrives to take responsibility for extinguishment.
What is not prepared here
The Manual's own Section 10 ('Escapes, Inmate Disturbances, and Other Emergencies') is completely redacted in DOCCS's public posting, and RankHigh does not reconstruct, infer or guess at its content. If your announcement or your facility trains on procedures beyond Directive #4944 and the fire-safety directives, that specific internal material is outside what any public source makes available to prepare.
Sources
- DOCCS Directive #4944, "Use of Physical Force" · checked 2026-09-13
- DOCCS Employees' Manual, Revised 2019 · checked 2026-09-13