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J.U.M.P. Jail Understanding Mathematics Project
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Finston, 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
Using Self-Determination Theory in Correctional Education Program Development
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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
Education for All and the Dream of an Alternative Prison Policy in Brazil
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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