DOC Danville CC Correctional Officer Trainee
Listed on 2026-07-27
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Government
This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.
The Correctional Officer Trainee position, for a period not to exceed three months, will receive formalized and on-the-job training in security and custodial duties for IDOC. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to be physically fit at the level required at screening prior to arrival at the Training Academy. Upon successful completion of Pre-service Security Training, IDOC cadets will participate in a formal ceremony at the academy and cadets are awarded certificates and badges and sworn to the Oath of Office.
DOC employs Correctional Officer Trainees at each of its 26 Correctional Centers across the state. Positions will be filled at different times for each of the following facilities:
- Big Muddy River
- Jefferson County - Centralia
- Clinton County - Danville
- Vermillion County - Decatur
- Macon County - Dixon
- Lee County - East Moline
- Rock Island County - Graham
- Montgomery County - Hill
- Knox County - Illinois River
- Fulton County - Jacksonville
- Morgan County - Kewanee
- Henry County - Lawrence
- Lawrence County - Lincoln
- Logan County - Logan
- Logan County - Menard
- Randolph County - Pinckneyville
- Perry County - Pontiac
- Livingston County - Robinson
- Crawford County - Shawnee
- Johnson County - Sheridan
- LaSalle County - Southwestern IL
- St Clair County - Stateville
- Will County - Taylorville
- Christian County - Vandalia
- Fayette County - Vienna
- Johnson County - Western
- Brown County
For more information about the training process to become a correctional officer, visit Training Academy
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Employees enjoy excellent benefits, including health, vision, and dental insurance; retirement plan and deferred compensation; state holidays and other benefit time off; and pre-tax benefit programs.
Essential Functions- Assigned each work week to another correctional employee to assist in running lines, yard, dining room, housing units, facility buildings, writs, observing individuals in custody, perimeter patrol, armory, counting, shakedowns, movement, etc.
- Travels by using a state issued vehicle to complete assignments.
- Given formal training in housing unit work, report writing, out-count work, yard work, running lines, individuals in custody at this institution and their assignments, chain-of-command, security buildings, disciplinary procedures, and any other training deemed necessary.
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