PRISONER BOARDING AFTER PASSENGERS HAD BEEN BOARDED.

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AT LAST MINUTE; GATE AGENT DELIVERED ONE ARMED PAX/PRISONER FORM TO COCKPIT AND CLOSED DOOR AFTER LATE BOARDING THE PRISONER. ON TAXI OUT; F/A ADVISED THERE WERE 2 PRISONERS AND 2 ESCORTS. AFTER TKOF; F/A ADVISED THERE WERE 2 PRISONERS; 2 UNARMED ESCORTS; AND ONE ARMED ESCORT ALL SITTING BY THE EMER EXIT (AFT RIGHT SIDE). LATER INFORMED THAT BOTH PRISONERS WERE MINIMUM RISK. FINALLY; F/A RPTED PRISONERS' HANDCUFFS NOT HOOKED TO WAIST. WHEN I REQUESTED THIS BE DONE; JUSTICE DEPT AGENT DISCOVERED THE PROPER EQUIP HAD BEEN LEFT AT THE GATE. RECOMMENDATIONS: IF PRISONER ARRIVES LATE DENY BOARDING; INDICATE ON PRISONER FORM TO CAPT THE NUMBER OF PRISONERS; AND INDICATE 'RISK' ON FORM. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING: RPTR HAD NOT MADE A RPT TO HIS FLT MGR BUT HAD SUBMITTED A WRITTEN RPT TO PAX SVC. SUGGESTED HE INCLUDE A RPT TO MGR. PRISONER WAS BOARDED ACCOUNT THEY HAD BEEN HUNG UP BY TFC AND THE ESCORT WANTED TO BORED VERY BADLY. COMPANY REG REQUIRE PRISONERS BE BOARDED BEFORE ANY PAX AND THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE BASIS FOR DENYING BOARDING. FELT ESCORTS WERE FAIRLY NEW AND MAY NOT HAVE FLOWN BEFORE. PRISONERS WERE NO PROB DURING THE FLT BUT FEELS PAX SVC MISHANDLED.