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Peer reviewedMuhammad, Mika'il A. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 1996
Examines questions regarding the perceptions of New York State prisoners (N=263), their chances of an early release, and their strategies to expedite the release process. Findings suggest that inmates view all activities thought to expedite release as important. Many prisoners wished to eliminate the "game playing" thought associated…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Prisoners, Released Time
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
Lenihan, Kenneth – Manpower, 1974
The released prisoners' search for work is hampered by a lack of cash resulting from his inadequate earnings during his confinement. To improve this situation many prisons have established work-release programs in order to improve a prisoner's financial status when he leaves. (BP)
Descriptors: Employment Problems, Financial Needs, Financial Problems, Job Placement
Branson, Ralph – Training in Business and Industry, 1970
Partial release before parole, which gives selected prisoners achance to work during the day, has proved successful. (EB)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Correctional Education, Prisoners, Released Time
Hood, Ernie – Manpower, 1970
Although participants are convicts still serving time, they hold regular jobs in the community. However, unlike paroled felons, they must spend their nights in a Work Release Community Center. (BH)
Descriptors: Correctional Rehabilitation, Employment Opportunities, Prisoners, Probationary Period
Peer reviewedKnox, William E.; Humphrey, John A. – Criminal Justice and Behavior, 1981
Analyzed the process of granting work release. Administrative data on a 10 percent random sample of incarcerated males provided the basis for a path analysis. High custody grade was found to have a very strong direct path with granting of work releases. Other variables had weaker paths. (Author)
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Correctional Rehabilitation, Court Role, Economic Factors
Swanson, Richard M. – 1973
The document reports the results of the Work Release-Manpower Study in two volumes. Volume I describes the efforts to develop a framework on which to conceptualize the understanding of work release and the variables that influence the effectiveness of the operation of community corrections. The framework was used to assess this influence in 50…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Community Involvement, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Rehabilitation
Swanson, Richard M. – 1973
The report contains technical reports describing the establishment of procedures and detailed results of the State-by-State national survey. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Community Involvement, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Rehabilitation
Peer reviewedTrent, Curtis; Ragsdale, John Fleming – Community College Review, 1976
The restrictive, stifling, hostile environment within corrective institutions precludes effective inmate education programs. Real inmate education can best be achieved through study-release programs. The community college is ideally suited to this purpose because of its responsiveness and accessibility. (Author/JDS)
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions
Download full textWolf, Judith G.; Sylves, David – 1981
Under the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) of the New York State Education Department, inmates of correctional facilities have been able to enroll in courses leading to postsecondary degrees at accredited institutions. In cooperation with colleges having resident HEOP programs, New York State prisons implement (1) in-prison programs…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Data Analysis
ENDWRIGHT, D.K. – 1967
THE SUGGESTED APPROACH TO PROVIDING ADEQUATE ACADEMIC AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR PRISON INMATES EMPHASIZES ACCREDITATION OF VOCATIONAL, TECHNICAL, AND ADULT EDUCATION CENTERS AS THE ULTIMATE GOAL. THE PURPOSE, OBJECTIVES, NEEDS, AND PRESENT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS OF SEVEN FLORIDA INSTITUTIONS ARE OUTLINED IN DETAIL. COLLEGE AND DALE…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Vocational Education, Attendance
Muth, Edmund H. – 1974
The Law Offender's Planning Task Force of the Governor's Advisory Council on Manpower was established to develop a comprehensive manpower services plan for law offenders in Illinois. The report discusses what is needed in effective criminal justice manpower services and the problems peculiar to delivery of manpower services within the constraints…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Development, Coordination, Correctional Education
Robertson, Von H. – 1968
At the Utah State Prison philosophy and purpose have changed from incarceration and punishment to education and rehabilitation. Where funds and personnel are available, inmates have opportunity for therapy, counseling, schooling, vocational training, and work release employment. Twenty-two rehabilitation factors have been identified and described.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Career Counseling, Correctional Education
