EcoTensil™Security Utensil to the Rescue! Security Inventions Offers Safe
Eating Utensil to Corrections, Mental Health and Security Related Agencies
New Paperboard Spoon Offers Safety and Sustainability in Environments Where Plastic Utensils
Are Often Misused
Naperville, IL (PRWEB) February 4, 2010 -- Corrections veteran and owner of Security Inventions (EcoTensil
Security Utensil (aka ESU) solves the problem of cutting, “gassing” or sharpening eating utensils into a shank.
A. Allen-Jones, a 20+ year veteran of corrections and law enforcement, knows the frustrations that come along
with overseeing correctional institutions, and with supervision of individuals who, at times, may not wish to be
cooperative and may even seek to harm themselves or others. “We all know more tools are needed to keep our
staff safe. Yet the law sometimes appears to tie our hands, making solutions to our unique, challenging, and even
life-threatening problems seem impossible and/or potentially a legal catastrophe” says Allen-Jones. “Then along
comes something extraordinary, which actually solves problems: the EcoTensil Security Utensil.”
Unlike any product ever marketed to corrections, the ESU goes beyond what others have offered. Security
Inventions was developing a similar product, but decided to market EcoTensil S.U. when it became apparent that
this product could replace the current dangerous eating utensil options with a perfectly safe alternative.
Unfortunately the commonly used Polypropylene Utensils (sporks and spoons) pose an everyday danger that
continually place safety and liability issues on correctional and security facilities administrators’ desks. This is
especially true for inmates and residents on Administrative Segregation or various other special programs.
“With the ESU, we will no longer hear about mandatory extractions to retrieve a shank made from a
polypropylene spoon,” Allen-Jones added. “We will no longer see the reports about an inmate who cut himself
with a sharp polypropylene utensil. We will get