Global Corrections Training and Facility Management

Corrections officers and agencies worldwide face acute shortages of trained personnel and resource deficits, which contribute to overcrowding, violence, internal threats, insecure facilities, and transnational criminal group recruiting in correctional facilities. Strategic Capacity Group’s Global Corrections Program trained correctional officers from around the world in the United States at the International Corrections Academy (ICA-C) in Cañon City, Colorado, the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Center (MPCTC) in Sykesville, Maryland, and the Mock Prison Riot (MPR) event in Moundsville, West Virginia. SCG developed curricula, supported experienced Corrections Trainers from partner institutions to deliver high-quality training, provided Turn-Key Logistics support to traveling delegations, organized cross-cultural activities for delegates during each training, coordinated with partner training facilities in Maryland and West Virginia to deliver high quality training to delegations, and measured training effectiveness across all facilities. Additionally, SCG established, renovated, maintained, and managed the new International Corrections Academy (ICA-C) training facility in Colorado for the Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and in coordination with the Colorado Department of Corrections.

Strategic Capacity Group (SCG) implemented the Global Corrections Program, Global Corrections Training as a Catalyst for Change, for the Department of State from 2022-2025. SCG supported approximately 1,000 correctional officers attending training events at the ICA-C, the MPCTC, and MPR. SCG provided Turn-Key Logistics support, instructional design, facility management, and analytic services. Driven by a commitment to customer service, SCG delivered a range of core activities, including:

• Travel and event logistics for delegations from Colombia, Costa Rica, the Eastern Caribbean, Ecuador, Georgia, Guatemala, Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo, Mexico, Morocco, Niger, Panama and Senegal to attend trainings at the ICA-C, the MPCTC, and MPR, including travel, lodging, transportation, catering, interpretation, and translation.

• The renovation of an existing training facility and subsequent establishment and management of the new International Corrections Academy (ICA-C) in Cañon City, Colorado. Facility management included all requirements for the safe delivery of courses using simulated ammunition—simunitions—including high-risk prisoner transportation training and other field-based training.

• The development, update, and maintenance of six existing courses and two new courses with adult-centric learning tools that focused on contextually relevant curricula, catalyzing learning to produce lasting change in participants’ home institutions.  

• Classroom and facility-based support for Colorado Department of Corrections instructors to deliver high quality training using adult learning methodologies calibrated and contextualized for the students’ contexts and home organizations.

• Organized instructionally aligned site visits to integrate field based curriculum and enhance learning outcomes.

• The deployment of monitoring and evaluation tools, including surveys, tests, and capstones, to document, measure, and capture change—and to continuously incorporate that learning into training delivery.

SCG’s Global Corrections Program delivered measurable results, advancing anti-crime outcomes and enhancing global security. Through contextually relevant curricula and practical field exercises, participants strengthened their ability to prevent violence, identify and reduce harm from internal threats, safely transport prisoners in high risk situations, disrupt organized criminal activity, and reduce extremist recruitment inside prisons.  

• Sahel Regional Corrections Officer Basic Curriculum developed by Sahelian prison administration officials from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal (and with participation from Morocco and Mauritania) through a series of country specific curriculum design and development workshops facilitated by SCG.

• Assessment, curriculum design, and training delivery for the transition of the École de formation judiciaire du Niger (EFJN) from military to civilian corrections administration.

• Series of Narcotics Investigations Courses for the Malian Central Office of Narcotics, Specialized Judicial Center, Police Narcotics Brigade, Gendarmerie Investigation Services, Forensic Investigation Services, and Customs.  

• Regional network of corrections administrators from West and North Africa, Réseau Colorado pour l’Emergence Pénitentiaire en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Nord, that included multiple training events for regional corrections administrators and Mock Prison Riot obstacle course trainings and competitions in Senegal and Mali.