Correctional Officer Training
Government online training programs for correctional officers in county jails as well as state and federal prisons.Categories
Overview
The following programs offer a comprehensive training for both new and experienced correctional officers. They cover common situations that correctional officers may encounter as well as a wide-ranging curriculum, focusing on ensuring the safety of officers, staff, and inmates and a safe and efficient environment for all. It is designed for use in county jails, state and federal prisons, correctional training academies, vocational schools, as well as military and university criminal justice programs across the United States.
Trainings Included
What To Expect: An Orientation For New Officers
Professional, seasoned officers from across the country respond to questions such as: What mistakes do new staff members make the most? What experiences, good or bad, are they likely to have? What advice do you have for new staff? The answers are frank and varied. They'll relieve anxieties of new staff, tone down overeagerness, and make the transition into a highly challenging career a lot safer and smoother.
Doing Time Life As An Inmate
The most effective officer is one who truly understands what it's like to be an inmate in a penal institution. The purpose of this film is to help all correctional officers achieve that understanding.
Communication Skills
Both successful and ineffective examples of communication between correctional staff and inmates are shown. Officers will be able to test themselves to see if they are communicating as well as they should.
Inmate Management
In the field of corrections, mismanaging inmates can lead to riots and disaster. This program teaches officers how to address problems of discipline and manage inmates effectively.
Difficult Inmates
Experienced officers know there are times when staff members must deal with angry inmates. This program shows how to successfully defuse emotionally charged situations.
Decision Exercises
Dramatic vignettes illustrate twenty-one problem situations correctional officers face in their daily encounters with inmates. Following each problem, officers are asked "What would you do?" and the video is stopped for discussion. The problems include inmate complaints about job assignments, accusations of mistreatment, attempts to make deals with officers, sexual advances toward officers, and suicide attempts.
Problem Exercises Staff Inmate Relations
A number of problem situations correctional officers encounter on the job are dramatized. After each situation, the video is stopped and officers are asked to assess the problem and decide how to handle it. The situations include an inmate accusing an officer of prejudice, an inmate accusing an officer of a sexual advance, and an officer smelling alcohol on the breath of an inmate who is about to be released.
Officer Observations
The result of a nationwide study, this program gives time-tested examples of significant, unusual inmate behaviors that may well fortell impending problems among inmates.
Problem Solving For First Line Supervisors
This program will improve the problem solving skills of both new and experienced supervisors by allowing them the opportunity to fine-tune their decision-making skills in the non-threatening environment of the classroom.
Avoiding Attacks Attitude Mistakes
A nationwide study of attacks on corrections officers shows the attitude problems that have led to attacks.
Avoiding Attacks Proper Techniques
A nationwide study of assaults on corrections officers illustrates tactical errors that can lead to injuries.
Principles Of Security
Each correctional facility has its own unique security requirements, but the principles of security are the same everywhere. This program outlines more than twenty principles of security that all departments in a correctional facility should follow. It stresses that correctional employees who maintain security standards are the ones who keep inmates in jails and prisons--not bars, fences, or walls.
Exterior Security Procedures
One of the most important responsibilities a corrections staff member has is maintaining the institution's exterior security. This program outlines proper exterior security inspection procedures and prompts both new and experienced corrections officers to ask themselves if they are performing their inspections to the best of their ability.
Introduction To Contraband
The chief control against contraband is careful supervision of time and materials. This program displays a wide variety of contraband and shows why "if you give the wrong inmate enough time and the wrong toys to play with, you're going to wish you hadn't."
Inmate Tricks
Officers show the clever ways inmates try to deceive the staff when it comes to making and hiding contraband like alcohol, weapons and escape devices.
Cell Searches
There's nothing simple about a cell search -- if it's done properly. Tough questions are asked of experienced officers to help them determine if they are as systematic and thorough as they think they are.
Interior Security Procedures
Conducting proper security inspections inside a corrections institution is vital in preventing escapes, controlling contraband, and maintaining the safety and security of the entire facility. This program outlines interior inspection procedures and prompts officers to ask themselves if they are performing their own security inspections at a high standard.
Transportation Of Prisoners
The principles behind safe transportation are presented in detail. Transporting prisoners is a specialized task. The program illustrates how it can be risky for both officers and inmates if it is not conducted with thoroughness and safety in mind.
Recognizing Drug Use
Symptoms and behaviors associated with drugs commonly found inside a correctional facility are shown. The program also illustrates how drug use often leads to unpredictable, and sometimes hostile and aggressive, behavior. Effective procedures for officers to follow are suggested.
Crime Scene Preservation
The correctional officer is often the first staff member to appear at the scene of a crime in a jail or prison. This program shows the correct procedures officers must follow.
Dining Room Conduct
More inmate disturbances have started in dining rooms than anywhere else in correctional institutions. This program seeks to reduce and control those disturbances by identifying their causes.
Inmate Body Searches Part 1 - Clothed
An important part of maintaining security and safety in a correctional institution is conducting thorough and systematic clothed inmate searches. This program is the result of a study of practices in a wide variety of institutions and describes in detail the recommended procedure for conducting searches of clothed inmates.
Inmate Body Searches Part 2 - Unclothed
This program describes under what circumstances an unclothed search is warranted, exactly how to conduct such a search of both male and female inmates and describes the importance of professionalism and consistency during each search.
Interviewing Techniques
Dramatic scenes show why interviewing skills are needed. Officers will realize there is a lot to learn about interviewing to be effective -- to solve problems and to keep lines of communication open.
Introduction To Report Writing
This program illustrates the kinds of inmate and staff situations that are the subjects of reports. It explains why objectivity is important, and by analyzing the report categories of who, what, where, when and how, it demonstrates how to be objective consistently.
