{"id":42477,"date":"2013-11-06T20:25:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T01:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=42477"},"modified":"2013-11-13T10:15:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T15:15:42","slug":"u-s-embassy-sponsors-exchange-on-prison-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/11\/u-s-embassy-sponsors-exchange-on-prison-design","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Embassy Sponsors Exchange on Prison Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42479\" title=\"us-embassy-nebraska\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/us-embassy-nebraska.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/us-embassy-nebraska.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/us-embassy-nebraska-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/us-embassy-nebraska-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continuing the longstanding U.S.-Bahamian partnership to increase public safety and security, the U.S. Embassy\u2019s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) Section sponsored a four-day study tour for seven Bahamian officials from Her Majesty\u2019s Prison and the Ministries of National Security, Public Works, and Foreign Affairs and Immigration to examine construction and bidding for security infrastructure in Lincoln, Nebraska October 21-24.<\/p>\n<p>The consultative opportunity, which connected Bahamian officials with counterparts in the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, provided participants with best practices in facility operations (including multi-custody operations), planning, design, programs, construction, physical plant maintenance, and renovation to older facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The professional exchange is part of ongoing joint efforts under the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) to reform and strengthen the justice system by improving prison conditions.\u00a0 The four-day study tour follows the U.S. Embassy\u2019s donation of contraband detection devices and drug testing kits to Her Majesty\u2019s Prison in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>US Embassy, Nassau<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Photo caption:\u00a0 Program participants pose in front of the headquarters of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services in Lincoln, Nebraska.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Embassy sponsored a 4-day study tour for 7 Bahamian officials to examine construction and bidding for security infrastructure in Lincoln, Nebraska in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":42479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[499,1262,113],"class_list":["post-42477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-bahamas","tag-national-security","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}