Encounters that never fully end
An officer who wins an argument today inherits the consequences tomorrow. We teach control that leaves the other person somewhere to stand, so compliance now does not cost you the unit later.
Training for Jails, prisons, and detention staff
Built for Corrections.
Correctional officers manage daily confrontations in confined, high-contact environments where rapport, control, and disciplined physical response are everything.
Corrections work is the opposite of patrol. Your officers meet the same population every shift, in confined space, with nowhere to withdraw and no option to hand the encounter to the next unit. Rapport built on Monday changes how Thursday goes.
ATCG scopes the training to that reality. Scenarios run in housing units, intake and transport rather than on a roadside, and the communication work assumes an ongoing relationship instead of a single contact.
Programs are built following IADLEST standards, with documentation prepared for your training coordinator to submit for state credit.
What ATCG does for you
De-escalation and rapport tuned to housing units, intake, and movement
Less-lethal and defensive tactics for confined, high-contact settings
Hands-on control, restraint, and coordinated team response
Articulable reporting when an incident goes physical
Recommended programs
- Tactical Communication & De-Escalation
- Agency-Tailored Program
Every program is scoped to your environment and goals. Let’s build the right fit.
What we train against
The problems corrections bring to the room
No distance to work with
Most de-escalation training assumes room to back up. In a dayroom or a cell front there is none. Officers drill positioning and control in the space they actually have.
Going hands-on with staff around
Multi-officer response in a confined space turns into a pile without defined roles. Officers practise the Coordinated Arrest Protocol where the corridor is two metres wide.
Intake, when you know nothing
Intake brings people at their least stable and your officers at their least informed. Scenarios cover reading behaviour fast and setting tone before a pattern hardens.
What you have afterward
Where your team stands at the end
Officers get a way to hold authority that does not spend goodwill they need next shift, and a shared protocol for the moment control becomes physical.
Supervisors get a debrief on where the team's habits help and where they create friction.
Questions
Before you book
Yes, and we prefer it. Running scenarios in your own housing units, intake area and corridors is the point, because the space shapes what works.
Not quite your role? See everyone we train or ask us directly.