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Frequently Asked Questions
Training Topics Officer Responsibilities & Offender Supervision
- Code of Conduct
- Survival Mindset
- Decision Making and Problem Solving
- Gender Responsive Issues
- Interpersonal Communication
- Games Inmates Play / Staff-Offender Relations
- Booking and Intake: Booking Info, Screening for Risk, Bail, Personal Property, DNA, Changeout
- Classification Management: Pre-classification; Purpose; Reclassification
- Inmate Rules and Regulations
- Inmate Discipline: Major, Minor and Informal Restrictions
- Inmate Communication: Telephone, Visitation, Mail
- Food Services and Commissary
- Basis and Manner of Inmate Searches
- Facility Searches
- Maintaining Safety and Security: Checks, Contraband Control and Head Counts, Key and Tool Control
- Use of Force - Using Restraints
- Use of Force - Basic Self Defense
Correctional Law
- First and Fourth Amendment
- Sixth Amendment - Access to Courts and Counsel
- Eighth Amendment - Duty to Protect
- Deliberate Indifference: 1983 Lawsuits
- Inmate Grievances
- Documentation and Report Writing
- Critical Incidents, Disturbances and Riots / Hostage Situation and Negotiation
- Managing the Mentally Ill Population: Mental Health History, Issues in Jails, Liability, Suicide, De-Escalation, Officer Self Care
- Special Needs (Protective Custody) Inmates
The tuition fees ($500/person) for the Kansas Jail Training Academy covers:
- Five full days of legal-based training taught by NIJO instructors
- Lodging at the Kansas Highway Patrol Training Academy
- Meals each day
- Course Completion Certificate
The National Institute for Jail Operations (NIJO) developed their Professional Certification Program in response to the need to provide a respected national certification for individuals looking for a process that involves legal-based curriculum by an organization which supports and defends their agencies’ worthy goals and objectives. NIJO Professional Certification is a professional designation – earned not issued – for sheriffs, administrators, supervisors and line-level officers who have demonstrated they possess the requisite understanding, knowledge, skills, experience and abilities to function to a specific level. The following levels are offered:
- National Certified Corrections Executive (NCCE)
- National Certified Corrections Supervisor (NCCS)
- National Certified Corrections Officer (NCCO)
Qualified immunity, good-faith defense depends on knowing and complying with clearly established law – not BEST PRACTICES. “Best practices” are often quoted as a feel-good answer to justify administrative policies and positions; however, the highest courts of the land have openly disagreed. In order to address the need for correctional facilities to remain current with and keep updated to the law, Legal-Based Guidelines™ have been created, developed and are maintained by renowned corrections expert, Gary W. DeLand (DeLand & Associates), which NIJO fully and exclusively promulgates. Approximately 16 sections comprise 630-640 guidelines to assist administrators with specific operational and policy driven areas including hot topics of use of force, suicide, religion, inmate mail, searches, classification and suicide. The guidelines are written uniquely to contain the text of each guideline, Rationale statements, Compliance statements and Annotation references. All training provided by NIJO is centered and built around the Legal-Based Jail Guidelines specific to Kansas case law and state statutes. To find out more about utilizing the Kansas Legal-Based Guidelines in your facility, contact NIJO.
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