Correctional Education

19 records
Title	Date	Abstract
Back to school or back to jail? Fighting illiteracy to reduce recidivism	1993	This is a reprint of a journal article describing the literacy programs in correctional institutions in the United States as ...
Back to school: a guide to continuing your education after prison	2007	This planning guide contains information for inmates headed for release on earning a General Education Development credential...
Baseline study: education in county jails	1990	This research report on educational programs in California county jails was prepared to provide a factual basis for understan...
Building jobs, rebuilding lives; placing ex-offenders with employers in the residential and light commercial construction industry	1999	This manual provides a method of facilitating ex-offender employment. The concept includes two parts - viewing inmates and ...
California Department of Corrections statewide literacy plan	1998	This plan responds to the federal Prison Literacy Act and mandates a standardized approach for implementing literacy instruct...
Community-based correctional education	2011	The report presents information from fifteen community-based education programs in ten states-from charter schools to technic...
Correctional education: selected aspects	1986	Correctional education is a generic term describing a wide range of educational activities that take place in institutional a...
Creating a vision in correctional education	1990	The article discusses the importance of vision, as a function of strategic planning, to educational programs in the correctio...
Current issues in correctional education	February 25, 2004	This document summarizes conversations and interviews with leaders in correctional and adult education, addressing public pol...
English language instruction for incarcerated youth	2003	This digest discusses the issues and challenges in providing English language instruction to Latino and other linguistically ...
Literacy behind bars: results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy Prison Survey	May 2007	Published by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), "Literacy Behind Bars" is the report of the 2003 National A...
Pell Grants for prisoners	1993	This article describes in interesting detail the history related to inmate eligibility for Pell Grant higher education assist...
Prison literacy programs	1995	The Digest sets the context of prison literacy programs, outlines some of the constraints, and describes what factors work.
Reentry education model	2012	This report outlines a correctional education reentry model illustrating an education continuum to bridge to support individu...
Solving security problems through education	1991	This article describes how the inmate education program at one of the Los Angeles County Jail's is meeting the needs of the H...
Success stories: life skills through literature	1997	This publication is an introduction to the theory and practice of using literature to teach life skills to persons who are or...
Teaching the hard-to-reach: working with releasees and probationers	[1986]	This handbook is designed to assist adult educators in providing continued adult education services to releasees and probatio...
Timing is essential to the success of correctional education	1989	The article makes the case that reaching the incarcerated individual at the right moment in his educational life-span is both...
Vocational education in corrections	1990	The alert summarizes issues related to vocational education for individuals confined to corrections institutions. Annotated ...