NCJ Number
146139
Journal
Corrections Compendium Volume: 18 Issue: 7 Dated: (July 1993) Pages: 4-15
Date Published
1993
Length
12 pages
Annotation
This article presents the results of a 1993 survey of Canadian and U.S. State corrections agencies to determine their training budgets and other information on training programs.
Abstract
The total budget for U.S. correctional officer training exceeds $56 million a year, composing 5 percent of the Nation's corrections budget. Forty-two U.S. correctional systems, including the District of Columbia and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, reported $56,869,116 or approximately $1.4 million per system spent on correctional officer training in 1992. Seven Canadian correctional systems, including the Correctional Service of Canada, reported a training budget of just over $4.2 million or an average of $700,725 per system. U.S. systems spent an average of $2,561 per student. The total training period was 233 weeks/9,355 hours, or an average of 5.7 weeks/234 hours per program. Canadian systems spend an average of $9,535 per student. The training period lasted 73 weeks/1,803 hours, or an average of 10.4 weeks/258 hours per program. An information chart for each training system responding to the survey addresses the total training budget; per student cost; program length; training location; the number of males and females beginning, completing, dropping out, and dismissed from training; the number of males and females on training staff; and whether the training program uses guest lecturers, and if so, the topics covered. Other charts provide information on curricula hours for various topics and correctional officer inservice training.