Can prisoners be transported on commercial planes?
Yep, I’ve done it on extraditions a number of times. The shock vest thing sounds neat but we never used such a thing and would not because of EMF and the chance a battery would give out. None of my prisoners where especially violent but most had a risk to themselves from others. Those wore a bullet resistant vest outside of the plane. A metal security belt with attached cuffs, a security cover over the key holes for the cuffs, leg shackles and two officers, both having the padlock keys for the security cover and the belt. With that set up the in custody could use the washroom themselves or eat. They always sat us in the rear and if the plane had a separate entrance in the rear we got off that way and put the prisoner into a waiting transport vehicle on the tarmac. It was up to the pilot. If for some reason the pilot did not want us we had to take a different flight, that never happened but it was in their power. Other passengers rarely knew there was a prisoner on board until deplaning
