Offenders' constitutional rights and responsibilities are also addressed. This course is designed to ensure employees are aware of potential driving hazards. It offers recommendations for preventing traffic accidents and for making the highways a safer environment. The National Safety Council Course DDC-4 is the standard. The course standard for this block of instruction is the American Heart CPR and the Illinois First Aid lesson plan.
Instruction is given to prepare employees to respond properly to an emergency situation.
Cadets are given instruction in the basic rules of writing an effective report. The most commonly found errors are discussed. Guidelines are provided for better written communication through the use of proper grammar, punctuation, spelling and clear sentence structure. A practicuum is utilized to allow the cadets to have hands-on experience in developing various types of reports used by the Department of Corrections. A combination of the Federal Bureau of Prisons self-defense and the National Law Enforcement Training Center's defensive tactics models are taught.