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Employment
Training Opportunities:
Secure Facilities Division Training
Pre-service Secure Facilities Training
All correctional officers shall complete a minimum of 40 hours of training prior to being assigned their shift and duties in the following training areas. These skills will afford our officers to be prepared to handle the responsibilities and requirements of the job and are in keeping with American Correctional Association standards.
- Fire and Safety (Fire extinguishers, Flammables)
- Classification of Inmates, Accountability & Headcounts
- Introduction to Corrections
- HR Document Review
- Purpose, Goals, Policy and Procedure
- Unit and Facility Orientation, Inspection Logs
- Ethics, Sexual Harassment / PREA (sign Sexual Harassment Policy)
- Verbal Intervention
- Cultural Awareness/ Diversity and Civil Rights
- Read and sign the Employee Handbook Non- Disclosure Agreement Conflict of Interes
- Agreement
- Investigations Report Writing
- Grievances
- Security and Contraband
- Transportation
- Hostage training
- Emergency Plans - Work Stoppage/ Job Action (required for supervisory level staff)
- Post Orders / Unit Inspection Logs
- Suicide Screening and Prevention (Admission Doc)
- Security Threat Groups / Disruptive Groups / Gang Recognition & Info
- Laundry & Food Service
- Inmate Programs/Mandated Activities
- Medical Request & Assistance
- Restraint Equipment
- Universal Precautions, Occupational Exposure, PPE, Bio Hazard Waste Disposal / MSDS
- Use of Force, Uncooperative/ Violent Inmates Video Camera Training/ Practical
- CPR - First Aid
- Appropriate Conduct with Offenders
- Facility Security (Tool and Key Control)
- Inmate Visitation/ Inmate Correspondence
- Rights and Responsibilities of the Employee
- Segregation and Discipline
- Defensive Tactics
Secure Division On-The-Job Training
For applicable Secure Facilities Division staff, a minimum of 40 hours of hands on skill set training in their assigned duties shall include the following:
- Rules, regulations and read Detainee Handbook
- Goals, objectives, philosophy, mission of program
- Hours, daily reporting procedures, assigned work stations, review of job description
- Admission
- Booking
- Classification
- Central Control
- Contraband and Searches
- Count Procedures
- Emergency Escape Routes/Fire Control
- Food Service
- Hallway Security
- Housing Areas
- Key Control
- Laundry / Chemical and MSDS documentation
- Maintenance
- Suicide Response & Intervention
- Perimeter Security
- Radio Communications
- Segregation
- Shakedown
- Special Needs Inmate
- Supervision of Inmates
- Tool Control
- Transportation
- Video Camera Use
- Response to emergency situations/Hostage issues
Annual In-Service Secure Facilities Division Training
After one year of employment, all established CEC staff receives 40 hours of in-service training each year in accordance with American Correctional Association (ACA) standards. All training is designed to provide current employees with new industry information that may affect policy and procedural changes.
- Security Procedures and Regulations Supervision of Inmates
- Suicide Screening and Prevention
- Use of Force regulations and tactics
- Report Writing
- Inmate Rules and Regulations
- Ethics, Interpersonal relations
- Key and Tool Control
- Rights and Responsibilities of Inmates
- Inmate Rights
- Emergency Evacuations and Fire Control
- Cultural Diversity and Civil Rights
- CPR and First Aid (upon recertification)
- Medical Updates and Hunger Strikes
- PREA
- Emergency Plans - Work Stoppage/ Job Action/ Hostage Situations
- Post Orders / Unit Inspection Logs
- Security Threat Groups/ Disruptive Groups/ Gang Recognition & Info
- Restraint Equipment
- All applicable Secure Facilities Division staff in the State of Texas must meet Texas Commission of Law Enforcements Standards through a 96-hour Correctional Officer State Certification Course
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