Department of Correction graduates 32 cadets

The Delaware Department of Correction graduated 32 cadets Dec. 4. The students completed correctional employee initial training and were then assigned to posts throughout the state. The graduating class was composed of 25 correctional officers, two correctional officer food-service specialists, one correctional officer maintenance specialist, two correctional officer trades instructors, one community work-program coordinator and one paralegal.

Cadets took the oath of office and received their assignments before family, friends and correction department officials.

The training staff named Brian Vanes of Swedesboro, N.J., outstanding cadet. Peers selected Mark Pariseau of Camden to be the class speaker. Graduates completed nine weeks of training, including hands-on and classroom sessions in a multitude of areas, including weapons familiarization, defensive tactics, emergency preparedness, report writing, substance-abuse awareness training, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, basic first aid and interpersonal communication.

The graduates will join the ranks of more than 1,700 employees in the correctional officer series who uphold the department’s mission of protecting the public by supervising more than 7,000 adult offenders in correctional facilities throughout the state.

Not all cadets opted to have their information released; the following is an alphabetical list of graduating cadets, along with their hometown and assignments:

David Angelo, Dover;

James T. Vaughn Correctional Center (JTVCC), correctional officer;

Justin Atherholt, Dover, JTVCC, correctional officer;

Anthony Burris, Dover, JTVCC, correctional officer;

Brent Dickerson, Middletown, JTVCC, correctional officer;

John Dill, Ellendale, JTVCC, correctional officer;

Delores Green, Dover, Howard R. Young Correctional Institution (HRYCI), correctional officer;

Brandon Heald, Newark, HRYCI, correctional officer;

Stacey Henderson, Wilmington, HRYCI, correctional officer;

Kenneth Hunt, Smyrna, Baylor Women’s Correctional Institution, correctional officer/maintenance specialist;

Joseph McCarthy, Lewes, JTVCC, correctional officer;

Clayton McCormick, Dover, JTVCC, correctional officer;

Lyle Neal, Bridgeville, JTVCC, correctional officer; Pariseau, Delaware Correctional Industries (DCI), correctional officer/trades instructor;

Lori Quinney, Clayton, DCI, correctional officer/trades instructor;

Stephen Rogers, Wilmington, HRYCI, correctional officer;

Jason Russell, Laurel, JTVCC, correctional officer;

Matthew Smith, Philadelphia, HRYCI, correctional officer/food-service specialist;

Vanes, HRYCI, correctional officer;

Robert Workman, Smyrna, JTVCC, correctional officer.