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Welcome to the NIC Learning Center
Your gateway to learning and education for corrections professionals

 

Incident Command System for Corrections
  • Incident Command System for Corrections (ICSC) is now available in the E-course Catalog > Corrections Topics
  • This course will provide an understanding of the response to planned or spontaneous incidents in an institutional setting using the system required by the National Incident Management System.
  • ICSC Basic: Intended for line staff and non-security staff
  • ICSC Intermediate: Intended for first-line supervisors
  • ICSC Advanced: Intended for second-line supervisors and administrators
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Welcome to the NIC Learning Centerx

The NIC Learning Center provides learning and education to staff of state, local and federal corrections. Topics include leadership, jail and prison programming, offender reentry, and corrections mental health.

Now available: Self-Paced Learning Plans are a group of e-courses on a similar subject that you complete at your own pace. There are currently three categories to choose from: Corrections, Trainer, and General. Read more about learning plans and enroll today.

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For assistance with retrieving your username or password, enrolling in programs, launching e-courses, or technical issues, please contact live technical support, available 24/7.

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NIC PREA Learning Center

The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) was signed into law September 4, 2003 and supports the elimination, reduction and prevention of sexual assault within the corrections systems. The PREA Learning Center provides access to all corrections professionals wishing to complete the e-course, Your Role: Responding to Sexual Abuse.

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NIC Frontline Learning Center

The Frontline Learning Center is available to correctional officers, detention officers, probation and parole officers, re-entry specialists, correctional health professionals, and other correctional line staff wishing to take NIC e-courses. Learn more by reading the Frontline article in NIC's National Jail Exchange

Screenshot of Inmate Suicide Prevention course. Text includes Section Summary: In this section, you learned best practices for suicide prevention and risk reduction. Double celling, the control of contraband, effective management of inmates in protective custody, the timing of rounds, and ensuring open views of inmate cells helop control means and opportunity.

New E-course Available from NIC: Inmate Suicide Prevention

This course will provide the learner with an overview of the problem of inmate suicide and strategies to help prevent inmate suicides in correctional facilities. Go to the course catalog to access the new course.


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800.995.6423
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