The booklet reviews the literature and offers practical suggestions for providing special education services to incarcerated youth with special learning, social, or emotional needs. The booklet examines the following topics: (1) handicapping conditions among juvenile offenders (the most common are mental retardation, learning disabilities, and behavioral disorders); (2) probable causes for overrepresentation of youth with disabilities among juvenile offenders (poorly developed social skills and inability to comprehend questions and warnings); (3) educational services in juvenile corrections (including detention centers, juvenile correctional institutions, schools, camps, and ranches); (4) administrative arrangements and service providers (the public schools, departments of social services, juvenile justice and corrections, and private agencies); (5) promising practices (functional assessments, curriculum, and instruction; transition services; and collaborative linkages among courts, schools, correctional facilities, and aftercare programs); (6) future trends (more private facilities, intermediate sentencing, and larger numbers of serious offenders in juvenile facilities); and (7) professional development (covering dropout prevention, functional curricula, and advocacy support for disabled students at risk for adjudication). Includes 56 references. (DB)