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Detention officers learn new control techniques
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More than 100 men and women from law enforcement communities across the county joined together Thursday to learn new techniques to extract uncooperative inmates from their cells without injuries to the guards.In a time when budgets are tightening around the state, and Newton County Detention Center staff has faced significant cuts, the county was selected by the United States Corporation of Special Operations Group, sponsored by Woolrich, to learn from the mobile tactical lab, as well as instructor Joseph Garcia, some new techniques that just might save their lives on day."The old days of