The Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre is one of 19 institutions across Ontario that will employ the latest wave of 107 graduates from the Corrections Foundational Training program.
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Six new correctional officers will join the ranks at Ottawa’s jail starting next week, the Ontario government announced Friday.
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The Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre is one of 19 institutions across Ontario that will employ the latest wave of graduates from the Corrections Foundational Training program, a blended online and in-person training course.
As part of the program, recruits received training in “communication, de-escalation and inmate management as well as anti-Black racism and Indigenous cultural training,” the Ministry of the Solicitor General said. The officers received compensation from the province during their training as part of a $500-million investment in improving adult correctional services.
Collectively, 107 new officers will join the staff at these correctional institutions.
“The comprehensive training these new correctional officers have received will ensure they can make critical contributions to the communities they serve,” Solicitor General Sylvia Jones said in a statement. “I want to congratulate and commend every officer graduating this week for their hard work and commitment to keeping Ontario safe each and every day.”
Provincial detention centres are designed as regional facilities serving larger areas in Ontario. They hold people awaiting trial, sentencing or other proceedings, those serving short incarceration terms of 60 days or less and people awaiting transfer to federal or provincial correctional facilities.
OCDC has long been the centre of controversy over issues such as overcrowding, its use of segregation of the mentally ill, allegations of excessive force and much more. Earlier this spring, it was the centre of a COVID-19 outbreak, with at least 19 inmates and one staff member infected .
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