Training Academy

The Wyoming Department of Corrections Training Academy is located in Rawlins, Wyoming.  The Academy provides training for the Department and consists of a Training Manager, six full-time trainers, and an administrative assistant. 

Our P.O.S.T. Certified Basic Training Academy is ten weeks of intense training including one week of job shadowing. All staff new to the Department participate in the first week of training, which includes staff safety training. Staff hired to work at one of the Prisons attend an additional four weeks, which include extensive training in communication skills, de-escalation techniques, such as Verbal Judo and Motivational Interviewing (a technique proven to reduce recidivism among offenders). Correctional Officers continue their training with subjects such as Wyoming case law, WDOC policies and procedures, report writing, ethics, managing inmate behavior, Natural Response Control Tactics, and PPCT's Defensive Tactics. Students receive their normal salary while in training. Experienced Correctional officers may be eligible to attend a shortened training called Mini-Basic. Please ask the recruiter for more information.

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