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Lockup USA is the country's leading producer of video training programs for corrections professionals. Since 1990, Lockup USA has produced more than 100 training programs for corrections officers, supervisors, and other employees working in the field of corrections. More than 2,000 correctional institutions in the U.S. and Canada are using Lockup USA training videos, including federal facilities, state prisons, county jails, and local police lockups.
In addition, our training is used by several branches of the U.S. Armed Services, community corrections, community colleges and vendors in the private sector. Most videos are approximately 30 minutes in length and come with a written training guide, which includes testing.
 Paul Farmer created Lockup USA in 1990 and has personally produced every program in the Lockup USA library. Before starting Lockup USA, Paul worked as a television news reporter and anchorman in a career that spanned the years 1975-1990. Paul worked for television stations in St. Louis, MO, Syracuse, NY and in Utica, NY, where he started his career. Much of Paul's career was spent covering the criminal justice system. Paul's reporting has also appeared on CNN and ABC News.
Among those with whom Paul has conducted one-on-one interviews in his career are: former president Jimmy Carter, former White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, former US Attorney General Elliot Richardson, the late Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops, former CIA Director William Colby, CNN founder Ted Turner, newsmen Ted Koppel and the late David Brinkley, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, boxing promoter Don King, actors Peter Lawford and the late Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., singer Marie Osmond and rock 'n roll Hall of Famers Mick Jagger, Little Richard and Bob Seger.
Paul Farmer's reporting won him several prestigious awards in his career and Lockup USA has been likewise honored, winning a coveted Silver Telly Award and honors in the International Film and Video Festival for excellence in production.
Paul lives with his family in Rose Valley, PA and Wildwood Crest, NJ
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