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Michelle Candy – Adult Literacy Education, 2024
The North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has developed two methods of working with low-literacy students. One is testing for accommodations for GED testing. The other is integrating the STAR literacy program for adult readers.
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Adult Students
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Subini A. Annamma; Brian Cabral; Brianna Harvey; Jennifer M. Wilmot; Annie Le; Jamelia Morgan – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Education research increasingly conceptualizes how social interactions and contexts of public schools replicate practices found in prisons. Yet prison-schooling is often left out of education research. Concurrently, prison-schooling is where we educate a disproportionate amount of multiply marginalized youth, specifically disabled Girls of Color.…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Minority Group Students
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Olivia R. Hester; Kristine Jolivette – Journal of Correctional Education, 2024
Reentry, also referred to as transition, is a critical component in preparing at-risk youth in juvenile justice facilities for successful postrelease outcomes. However, successfully preparing these youth for reentry into the community and back to traditional K-12 schools is still difficult for many justice facilities. With the continued calls for…
Descriptors: Reentry Students, Juvenile Justice, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons
Anna Clements – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The special education to prison pipeline is a documented facet of the school to prison pipeline, in which Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and other youth of color disproportionately experience exclusionary school discipline, increasing their likelihood of incarceration. The special ed to prison pipeline is a sub-trend in which BIPOC youth who are…
Descriptors: Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
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Cabral, Brian; Annamma, Subini Ancy; Le, Annie; Harvey, Brianna; Wilmot, Jennifer M.; Morgan, Jamelia – Teachers College Record, 2022
Context: Prison education has often been ignored in discussions of public education. When it has been included, Girls of Color are often eclipsed by larger populations of Boys of Color. Yet the routes disabled Girls of Color take to prisons are different from those of their male peers; Girls of Color become incarcerated for low-level offenses and…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Females, Minority Group Students, Institutionalized Persons
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Cabral, Brian; Annamma, Subini Ancy; Morgan, Jamelia – Teachers College Record, 2023
Context: The "Crouse" decision from 1838 laid precedent to the positioning of prisons as sites where education takes place. With a massive expansion of youth carceral facilities since then, alongside the prison-schools within them, we continually rely on prison-school spaces as places where youth are brought to experience education and…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Educational Environment
Houtenville, A.; Bach, S.; Paul, S. – Institute on Disability, University of New Hampshire, 2023
The "Annual Report on People with Disabilities in America" is a companion volume to the "2023 Annual Disability Statistics Compendium" (ED628628) and "Supplement" (ED628631). Indicators were in the following areas of interest: employment, educational attainment, health and health care, financial status and security,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Institutionalized Persons, Postsecondary Education, Employment Level
Amanda Ross Benedick – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Students with disabilities are overrepresented in correctional settings in the United States and there is a dearth of information in the professional literature about the adequacy of instruction for these youth. Moreover, during the recent COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2022), access to education was abridged for many youth including those in juvenile…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education
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Cassidy, Laura; Reggio, Kayla; Shaywitz, Bennett A.; Holahan, John M.; Shaywitz, Sally E. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2021
The authors report findings on reading and IQ from a contemporary study of 145 individually tested incarcerated men and women in two maximum-security prisons in Louisiana. To their knowledge this study is the first to use the definition of dyslexia from the First Step Act (FSA) and the first to incorporate an IQ measure to differentiate those with…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Dyslexia, Intelligence Quotient
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David E. Houchins; Richard G. Lambert; Christopher Henrich; Joseph Calvin Gagnon – Behavioral Disorders, 2024
A major challenge for juvenile correctional facilities (JCF) is providing literacy instruction to a transitory student population with a wide range of literacy abilities. The purpose of this study was to identify unique literacy profiles of students in long-term JCF taking into consideration their reading abilities, language abilities,…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Literacy Education
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de Mezerville, Claire M.; Meza, Ana E.; Ovares, Yanúa – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2021
Costa Rica has developed a modality for people in vulnerable conditions to remain in the education system called "Educación Abierta," Spanish for "Open Education." This modality is described, and a lack of specific research is identified regarding minors with a disability and deprived of liberty. This article acknowledges the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Open Education, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Jenifer K. Montag – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Issues regarding the provision of accommodations for students with disabilities exist in both traditional college environments and nonstandard settings such as medical and legal education settings. While the situation is less than optimal for disabled students seeking degrees in the general population, who are unfettered in their academic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Students with Disabilities, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Cook, Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Black men within the United States with learning disabilities have difficulty navigating the collegiate environment (Jackson, 2016) because they are not academically prepared when taking developmental courses (Abreu et al., 2016; Bouck & Joshi, 2017). Researchers have studied Black men's lived experiences with Individualized Education Plans…
Descriptors: African American Students, Students with Disabilities, Males, Learning Disabilities
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Ranieri, Nina; de Carvalho Bauzys Monteiro, Mirella – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2021
This article describes the Brazilian juvenile justice system and the educational rights of incarcerated adolescents with learning disabilities, to discuss how and why they are "invisible" and deprived of adequate treatment for their specific needs. The main reasons reside (a) in the complex national legal structure of the juvenile…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Institutionalized Persons
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Prince, Angela M. T.; Gothberg, June; Woods, Kennesha R. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2020
Given the disproportional rates of youth with disabilities who are being incarcerated, it is important to ensure they are receiving a free appropriate public education (FAPE) as defined under the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA). Based on the policies provided by the Office of Special Education Program (OSEP), we developed and implemented…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Equal Education, Educational Legislation, Students with Disabilities
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