CJK0336 – Incidents and Emergencies in Correctional Facilities is a 20-hour course within Florida's revised 445-hour Correctional Basic Recruit Training Program, carrying zero credit hours as a clock-hour academy component.
The course covers what an officer does when normal facility operations break down — from the routine-but-urgent through facility-wide emergencies. That range spans a medical emergency in a housing unit, a fight between two inmates, a fire, a major disturbance, an escape, a hostage situation, and the hurricane evacuation of a secure population.
Two ideas organize the material. The first is the first responder's priorities: recognize the emergency, sound the alarm and communicate accurately, secure the area and account for inmates, render aid within the scope of training, and preserve the scene. The second is the Incident Command System under NIMS — recruits are not trained as incident commanders, but they must understand where they sit in a command structure and operate within it.
Content covers medical emergency response, fire response and the particular tension between life safety and perimeter security in a locked facility, inmate disturbances and riots including containment and CERT activation, escape response, hostage situations and Florida's no-hostage policy, and natural disaster operations.
Florida's hazard profile gives the course a distinctly local emphasis. Hurricane season forces real decisions about sheltering in place versus evacuating a secure facility, and Florida correctional agencies plan for and have executed such evacuations.
The course is offered at approximately 18 Florida institutions with correctional training centers: Broward, Chipola, College of Central Florida, College of the Florida Keys, Daytona State, Eastern Florida State, Florida Gateway, Florida State College at Jacksonville, Gulf Coast State, North Florida, Northwest Florida State, Palm Beach State, Pasco-Hernando, Pensacola State, Santa Fe, South Florida State, St. Johns River, and Valencia.
The revised Correctional Basic Recruit Training Program (CBRTP) runs 445 hours across thirteen courses and is required for certification as a correctional officer under Chapter 943, Florida Statutes. The curriculum is written and maintained by the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission (CJSTC) through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, so content is consistent statewide. Broward College's published sequence is representative:
Every component is a clock-hour course carrying zero credit hours, and none counts toward an associate degree.
Some Florida institutions still deliver an earlier 420-hour sequence using different course numbers — CJK0300 Introduction to Corrections, CJK0305 Communications, CJK0310 Officer Safety, CJK0315 Facility and Equipment, CJK0320 Intake and Release, CJK0325 Supervising in a Correctional Facility, CJK0330 Supervising Special Populations (20 hrs), and CJK0335 Responding to Incidents and Emergencies (16 hrs), alongside the shared First Aid, Firearms, Defensive Tactics, and Physical Abilities components.
The two versions cover overlapping material, but the course numbers, hour counts, and boundaries between courses do not map one-to-one. CJK0330 (20 hrs) is not equivalent to CJK0326 (25 hrs), and CJK0335 (16 hrs) is not equivalent to CJK0336 (20 hrs). Anyone performing equivalency evaluation — including military credit evaluation — should work from the actual course numbers and hours on the transcript rather than from course titles, and confirm which curriculum version the training center delivered.
Completing this course does not certify anyone. Recruits must finish the full 445-hour academy, pass the State Officer Certification Examination (SOCE), and satisfy the employment and background requirements of Chapter 943, Florida Statutes. Certification is granted by CJSTC, not by the college, and an officer must also be employed by an agency to be certified.
Requirements attach to the academy rather than to this individual course: minimum age, U.S. citizenship, high school diploma or equivalent, no disqualifying criminal history, a background investigation, a physical examination and drug screening, and a passing score on the Florida Basic Abilities Test (CJBAT).
Academy training is PSAV clock-hour instruction, not college credit, and does not transfer as general education. Several Florida colleges award block credit toward an A.S. in Criminal Justice Technology for full academy completion plus certification, under local articulation agreements rather than statewide SCNS equivalency. Confirm terms with the receiving institution. Note the distinction from CJC1000 Introduction to Corrections, which is a 3-credit transferable college course rather than academy training.
Officers already certified in another discipline — law enforcement to corrections, or correctional probation to corrections — complete abbreviated crossover programs drawing on a subset of these courses rather than the full academy. Candidates should work from the crossover curriculum published by their training center.
In the earlier 420-hour curriculum the corresponding course was CJK0335, Responding to Incidents and Emergencies, at 16 hours. This revised course is 20 hours and its scope differs. Because both versions remain in circulation across Florida training centers, transcript evaluators should not treat CJK0335 and CJK0336 as interchangeable, and should confirm hours from the transcript itself.
Florida correctional facilities revisit evacuation and shelter-in-place decisions every hurricane season, and several have executed real evacuations of secure populations. Instructors commonly ground this portion of the course in the host agency's actual plan and recent storm experience, which makes it one of the more concrete segments of the academy.
Generated August 31, 2026 · Updated August 31, 2026