Milwaukee Area Technical College to Host Graduation Ceremony for New Correctional Officers

MILWAUKEE– On Friday, October 2, at 10 a.m., 23 women and men will graduate from the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) Jailer Officer Training Class #36 at MATC’s Downtown Milwaukee Campus.

Presented in partnership with the Milwaukee County Community Reintegration

Center (CRC), the ceremony recognizes the students’ completion of training and readiness to serve as correctional officers throughout Southeast Wisconsin. Over the past nine years, approximately 700 officers have completed the program.

These new correctional officers will work at the CRC and other correctional facilities throughout the state to build safer communities, improve post-release outcomes and help residents become economically and socially successful. The graduates were trained at MATC’s Jailer Academy at the CRC at 8885 South 68th Street in Franklin.

Chief Judge Carl Ashley of the First Judicial District of Wisconsin will be the keynote speaker. Corrections officer Kiyana Malone of the Milwaukee County CRC will speak for the class on the academy experience.

The graduates successfully completed five weeks (200 hours) of intensive training and testing as mandated by the state of Wisconsin for new correctional officers. The course consists of 20 major units of instruction: Academy Orientation, Admit and Release Inmates, Correctional Law, Jail Health Care, Introduction to

Corrections, Jail Officer Wellness, Maintain Jail Security: Jail Security Techniques,

Professional Communication Skills, Principles of Subject Control (POSC), Prepare

Reports, CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) With AED, Ethics and Ethical

Decision Making, Fire Safety, Inmate Supervision and Behavior Control,

Investigations, Suicide Prevention, Supervision of Special Needs Inmate/Crisis Intervention, and Respecting Cultural Diversity.

Members of this class are currently or will be employed as officers at the following agencies: the Milwaukee County Community Reintegration Center, the Racine County Sheriff’s Office and the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office.

The CRC is aimed at promoting successful community reintegration by comprehensively meeting the needs of residents in the facility’s care and by providing programming and resources that support opportunities for positive change. A top priority for the CRC is recruiting and retaining new correctional officers to work at the facility.

GRADUATION DETAILS

WHAT: 23 women and men graduating from MATC’s Jailer Training Academy WHEN: 10 a.m., Friday, October 2, 2026

WHERE: MATC’s Downtown Milwaukee Campus, Room M605, 1016 North Sixth

Street, Milwaukee

Available for Interviews:

● Keynote Speaker: Chief Judge Carl Ashley of the First Judicial District of Wisconsin

● Selected Student Speaker on “The Academy Experience”: Kiyana Malone, Milwaukee County CRC

● Dr. Valencia Brown-Allen, Dean, MATC Community and Human Services Academic and Career Pathway

● Justin Klis, Associate Dean, MATC Community and Human Services Academic and Career Pathway

● Lt. Shane Alvey, Milwaukee County CRC Training Director

VISUALS:

● Graduation ceremony with officers and their families

● Training video from Jail Officer Class #36