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Direct linkBrown, Martha A.; Rios, Steve J. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2014
Correctional educators, recognizing that the majority of inmates lack the math, reading, and language skills required to be successful in today's workplace, strive to equip offenders with the skills and abilities needed to find and maintain work on their release. However, most adult literacy programs in prisons fail to raise the gradelevel…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Job Training, Credentials, Workplace Learning
Peer reviewedMcCarthy, Bernard J.; McCarthy, Belinda Rodgers – Journal of Correctional Education, 1984
Study release programs (in which selected inmates attend school in the community) have not realized ther full potential due to (1) decline of the rehabilitation ethic, (2) job placement as a condition of parole, (3) funding, and (4) inmate motivation. (SK)
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Postsecondary Education, Prisoners
