R2 255O – Jail/Corrections Operations – Meridian

April 29-30, 2026, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm

Credit Hours: 16
Course Number: R2 255O

Description:

Course Objectives:

• Jail Intake Screening: Where Jail Liability Starts: Jails face increasing challenges with arrestees smuggling deadly drugs, concealing substances, or entering with severe mental illness (or both). Intake officers, being the first point of contact, play a crucial role in accurate screening and documentation. A detailed intake screening and assessment tool, combined with officer observations, reduces liability, improves inmate safety, and can save lives. This block covers taking legal custody, intake screening, assessment, and classification for housing assignments.
• Jail Classification: An objective classification system is essential to maintain jail safety and security. This section explores the history and evolution of classification, the components of a valid objective system, and why subjective systems are inadequate. It also addresses changing requirements for Restrictive Housing and emphasizes its use only as a last resort.
• Special Housing: Focuses on suicide prevention, mental health care, and detox management. High-risk inmates require ongoing assessments from intake through incarceration.
• Restrictive Housing of Jail Inmates: Explores various forms (lockdown, solitary confinement, administrative segregation, disciplinary segregation) and their risks when used long-term.
• De-Escalation: Practical and empathetic communication techniques for managing difficult situations without force. Covers verbal strategies, tone, pacing, body language, posture, gestures, and active listening skills.
• Inmate Manipulation: Identifies manipulation tactics used by inmates, how they select targets, and how officers can recognize and stop manipulation. Includes case studies and inmate testimonials.
• Leadership: Examines effective vs. ineffective leadership in corrections.
• Stress Management Addresses the stress of working in law enforcement, focusing on self-awareness, work-life balance, and practical stress-reduction techniques. Includes a personal assessment exercise and demonstrations of methods to use when stress builds at work.

Instructor: Lisa Farmer, LLRMI

Location:

POST Academy
700 S. Stratford Drive
Meridian, ID 83642

Cost: FREE OF CHARGE  (Attendees are responsible for meals, travel, and/or lodging.)

Registration Details:

Jail Corrections fillable

Remarks:

For additional information, please contact Cathy Weddle @ cathy.weddle@post.idaho.gov or 208-884-7321.