The Mock Prison Riot facilitates the merging of tomorrow's law enforcement and corrections technologies with today's practitioners whose feedback and guidance shape the future of tools and tactics on a global scale.
The Mock Prison Riot is a four-day, comprehensive law enforcement and corrections tactical and technology experience, including 40,000 square feet of exhibit space, training scenarios, technology demonstrations, technology assessments and evaluations, certification workshops, a Skills Competition, and unlimited opportunities for feedback, networking, and camaraderie on a global scale.
The Mock Prison Riot is the only venue of its kind where law enforcement and corrections practitioners can touch, see, and actually deploy technologies from the showcase under real-world conditions, utilizing the grounds of the decommissioned West Virginia Penitentiary to maximum advantage. Our attention to detail at every level of planning is unparalleled. From how showcase seating arrangements can foster better communication to the most complex technology and tactical scenario, every aspect of the Mock Prison Riot is researched and planned to the highest standard of excellence. Law enforcement and corrections practitioners and technology developers come from all over the world to experience the Mock Prison Riot.
Technologists interact with law enforcement and corrections practitioners on every level, from actually deploying technologies in tactical scenarios, to dynamic and interactive technology demonstrations, to simply working their exhibit booths, communication is critical and guaranteed. Feedback on technology is offered via formal means such as operational assessment reports and surveys as well as simple verbal interaction. Candid feedback and suggestions for improvements and modifications are what help shape the future of technologies and tactics in the law enforcement and corrections industry.
Our staff carefully evaluates the appropriateness of law enforcement and corrections technologies for display and use at the Mock Prison Riot, ensuring that every inch of venue space is maximized. Special emphasis is placed on those technologies identified as high priority by the National Institute of Justice.
The Mock Prison Riot staff has spent more than a decade building relationships with technologists and tactical teams from all over the world. Our stellar level of customer service and personal attention to detail ensure that the needs of all those who experience the Mock Prison Riot are met in a timely and efficient manner. Relationship building guarantees that the Mock Prison Riot offers the most appropriate technologies, the best workshops, and the most realistic and ideal circumstances for deployment, participation, and feedback.
Our flexible use of venue and time allow for technologists to demonstrate their technologies as much as they like under the most realistic conditions possible. The unique circumstances of our venue permit law enforcement and corrections practitioners to actively participate in technology demonstrations. Demonstrations are dynamic and interactive: on-the-spot feedback and question-and-answer sessions are welcomed and encouraged.
The Mock Prison Riot staff leverages considerable experience and expertise when it comes to designing the workshop component. Our venue offers state-of-the-art classrooms and equipment as well as the means for actual hands-on learning throughout the prison compound grounds. Instructors and technologists work together, often offering free certifications, saving law enforcement and corrections agencies thousands of dollars.
