Special Operations Response Team

Wearing breathing apparatus and armed with MP5 9mm smgs, members of a Federal Bureau of Prisons Special Operations Response Team (SORT) move through a smoke filled facility during a training exercise.

SORTs are SWAT-style tactical units trained to respond to various crisis events at Federal Prisons:

• Prison Riots
• Assaults on staff or inmates
• Escapes or attempted escapes
• Hostage taking
  

The Special Operations Response Team at a given facility is comprised of volunteers from that facility's active duty staff.