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Direct linkFinston, David R.; Ruiz, Julia – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2019
In 2017, a mathematics education intervention in the Doña Ana County Detention Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico, was begun by two retired professors of mathematics as a volunteer project. The program now provides internship and master's thesis opportunities for students in the Department of Criminal Justice at New Mexico State University. The…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Adult Students, Mathematics Instruction
Download full textLovell, Belinda; Brown, Angela; Esterman, Adrian; Steen, Mary – Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, 2020
This scoping review addresses the question, what are the outcomes of existing prison parenting education programs for women experiencing incarceration and what can we learn? The framework used was based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). Significant positive changes…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Correctional Education, Parent Education, Parent Child Relationship
McKinney, Dani; Cotronea, Michael A. – Journal of Correctional Education, 2011
As funding has become available through the Second Chance Act of 2007, many correctional facilities have developed new educational programs in an effort to ease the transition from prison to community. Many new programs are developed based on the belief that incarcerated individuals are a special and unique population of student. The present…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Personal Autonomy, Program Development
de Sa e Silva, Fabio – Convergence, 2009
This article examines the development and the legacy of a policy making experience that was undertaken in Brazil from 2004 to 2006, under a project labelled "Educating for Freedom". The project sought to provide prison inmates with access to education. It was carried out by a coalition that comprised the Ministry of Education, the…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
Lichtenberger, Eric; Ogle, J. Todd – Journal of Correctional Education, 2006
This article highlights several issues related to the collection of post-release outcome data in the evaluation of correctional education programs and identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the different methods of collecting data related to recidivism, employment/earnings, and further education/training. The use of traditional follow-up in…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Development, Adult Education, Summative Evaluation
Foley, Regina M.; Gao, Jing – Journal of Correctional Education, 2004
Correctional education programs for incarcerated adults have been an object of much discussion. While such programs appear to be readily available to incarcerated individuals, little information is known about the instructional characteristics of such programs. The purpose of this survey was to describe the characteristics of instructional…
Descriptors: Program Development, Vocational Education, Special Education Teachers, Individualized Instruction
Knox, Alan B. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2004
Collaboration across the domains of continuing education and organizations advance civil society to address public issues.
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Continuing Education, Citizenship Education, Political Issues
