Nevada Code § 209.1315

Director: Training of correctional staff
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1. The Director may continue to develop
and implement, in each institution and facility of the Department, a program of
facility training for the correctional staff. Such training must include:
(a) Training in evidence-based practices,
including, without limitation, principles of effective intervention, effective
case management and core correctional practices;
(b) Courses on interacting with victims of
domestic violence and trauma and people with behavioral health needs and both
physical and intellectual disabilities; and
(c) Training in cultural competency for
interacting with offenders who are transgender, gender non-conforming, gender
non-binary and intersex.
2. The Director shall develop and implement,
in each institution and facility of the Department in which an offender may be
placed in solitary confinement, a program of training for any correctional
staff of the facility or institution who interact with offenders placed in
solitary confinement. Such training must include, without limitation, training
in effective communication, crisis intervention and de-escalation techniques.
Any training required to be completed pursuant to a program of training adopted
pursuant to this subsection is in addition to any other training required to be
completed by correctional staff.

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