OGEMAW CO., MI -- Several law enforcement agencies have felt the pinch of dwindling budgets, and most are short-staffed.

But a free seminar in Ogemaw County provided training to keep officers and inmates safe.

7 & 4's Andrew Keller takes us on a rarely seen behind the scenes look at tactical training.

"Inmate, I need you to turn around, do it now, otherwise medical attention will be provided."

Cell extraction techniques pose imminent danger for the corrections officers that rush in and try to contain the inmate.  They need to worry about the inmate having weapons, throwing feces, having diseases, all of the things that would put officers in a dangerous and possibly deadly situation.  But with this new training, those dangerous techniques are of the past.

"What happens is we're taking tactics with today's Tight budgets, a lot of agencies can't afford to send guys to conferences, so what happens is our sponsors like Woolrich, Drager, MSA, have helped support this training firm, and we're bringing training to the Heartland of America, no charge, they come out for one or two days, learn the latest tactics, technology, life saving skills that they need," said Joseph Garcia, the Tactical Training leader.

The U.S. Corrections Special Operations Group Mobile Technical Lab makes stops across America.  This year, Garcia and his team will make 34 stops, to show officers the latest, greatest, safest extraction techniques, all for free.

For an average cell extraction, it takes five corrections officers and anywhere from two to eight minutes to pull that inmate out.

But with these new tactical procedures, it's out with the old, and in with the new.  For this story, I'm the guinea pig, in the orange jumpsuit and get to play an uncooperative inmate to see how the new tactics work.  All they told me is it's going to be loud.

"If we can extract an inmate without getting anyone hurt, the inmate not getting hurt, maybe a little bit of pride issue, I think you felt that, and the officer safety, that's our number one priority, and that's what we're doing on this tour is life-saving skills," said Garcia.

"There's different ways of teaching stuff, and by far, this way is the best, that we've come across by far," said Sgt. Steven Pizzala of the Ogemaw Co. Corrections.

And for the traveling tour, that's exactly the point.  Officer and inmate safety.

Garcia says in the past 15 years, 26,000 officers have been injured or killed by old techniques.

With the new training, that number is zero.