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Download full textGreenberg, Elizabeth; Dunleavy, Eric; Kutner, Mark – Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education, 2008
Prisons are intended to rehabilitate criminal offenders, as well as to punish and incapacitate them. The education and training systems operating within most prisons are a key component of the rehabilitation mission of prisons. Previous studies have shown a relationship between participation in educational programs and recidivism rates, with…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Job Training
Greenberg, Elizabeth; Jin, Ying; White, Sheida – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics has updated the household and prison public-use data files for the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy and the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey. The accompanying 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy Public-Use Data File User's Guide explains how the data…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Data, Family (Sociological Unit), Institutionalized Persons
Greenberg, Elizabeth; Dunleavy, Eric; Kutner, Mark – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) assessed the English literacy of incarcerated adults for the first time since 1992. The assessment was administered to approximately 1,200 inmates (ages 16 and older) in state and federal prisons, as well as to approximately 18,000 adults (ages 16 and older) living in households. Three types of…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education, Adult Literacy, Institutionalized Persons
