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Uta Czyrnick-Leber; Kiara Kuhrs; Christian Kraft; Pamela Wicker; Bernd Groben – Journal of Prison Education Research, 2025
A cognitive prerequisite for education and (re)entry into the labor market is the ability to concentrate for a long period. Conducted with 39 participants, the present study examines the effect of a six-week dance-like martial arts program on prisoners' concentration ability in an open prison in Germany (n=15), and compares their concentration…
Descriptors: Attention, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Program Effectiveness
Conway, Patrick Filipe – Review of Higher Education, 2023
A primary focus within the field of higher education in prison is to ensure that federal, state, and institution-level polices helping to develop and sustain programs remain durable. Current justifications for policies in support of programs often rely on a predominantly recidivist lens, advocating for programs on the grounds of their likelihood…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Kelly Sullenberger – ProQuest LLC, 2022
One form of rehabilitation is education. Although 40% of inmates said they would enroll in a postsecondary degree program if given an opportunity, but only 27% of state prisons even offer college-level courses (McCoy & Burlingame, 2019; Rampey et al., 2016). Research has shown that completing a college-level degree while incarcerated can…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Access to Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
April N. Terry; Sarah Broman Miller – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This study addresses two areas of need in the literature. First, we recognize the impact of experiential-learning on student outcomes and fewer opportunities within the social sciences. Second, as academics in criminal justice and education, we are aware of educational needs of incarcerated persons. The current study blended together…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Females
Tamika Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In the higher education landscape, community colleges have served to help many under-resourced populations gain access to post-secondary education and a chance to pursue their dreams (Bailey, Jaggers, & Jenkins, 2015; Schudde & Goldrick-Rab, 2015). As with many under-resourced populations of students, the stakes are high for incarcerated…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Educational Attainment
Geraldine Huzar; Hossam Kassem – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2022
The Open University (OU) has around 1800 students studying in prisons (Students in Secure Environments, 2019) with no internet access. They study offline with no access to the OU library's online resources. This case study explores the student volunteer scheme introduced to help students in prison to indirectly access online library resources. It…
Descriptors: Open Universities, College Students, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Trevor Brackett – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this phenomenology case study was to examine what motivated formerly incarcerated Black males to complete their community college degree and what best supported them on their educational journey. This study offers in-depth insight into a multifaceted situation and informs community college administrators, state policy and statute…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, African American Education, African American Students, African Americans
Seeger, Rebecca N. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The United States, with just 5% of the world's population, imprisons almost 25% of the world's incarcerated people. Furthermore, the vast majority of people released from prison will recidivate. Research has shown that earning a college degree while incarcerated significantly reduces recidivism rates. This study considered the opinions of adults…
Descriptors: Adults, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons
Thouin, Caroline – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
With the recent approval of the Second Chance Pell Program and a proposal to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, a shift is occurring in favor of expanding educational opportunities to incarcerated adults. As reform to the criminal justice system becomes a focus, there is an immediate need to study the dynamic relationship between community…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Vocational Education, Correctional Education, Community Colleges
Christal M. Clark – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Legislators and correctional administrators are tasked with problem-solving current issues of mass incarceration and high criminal recidivism rates. Part of the solution is to implement successful rehabilitative initiatives through reentry programming. While Postsecondary Correctional Education programs are proven to reduce recidivism and assist…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Student Attitudes
Andre T. Melvin – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The aim of this dissertation was to evaluate the effect of the Columbia International University Prison Initiative program on the spirituality of male inmates incarcerated within South Carolina's Department of Corrections. The Prison Initiative program is an accredited two-year associate's degree in Biblical studies offered to SCDC inmates.…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Males, Spiritual Development
Cantora, Andrea; Miller, Joshua; White, Kathleen – Journal of Correctional Education, 2020
In August 2015, the U.S. Department of Education announced an experimental program that would allow higher education institutions to offer postsecondary educational programs inside adult prisons. The U.S. Department of Education's Second Chance Pell Grant Experimental Sites Initiative would allow state and federal incarcerated students to apply…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons
Carey, Pamela D. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The post-secondary correctional education program (PSCEP) is perceived to be beneficial to ex-offenders, but stakeholder needs assessment findings show an increasing lack of ex-offenders' participation in the PSCEP. This study suggests that when stakeholders work collaboratively to persuade the ex-offenders of the usefulness of participating in…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Harris, Douglas N.; Mills, Jonathan – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
We provide theory and evidence about how the design of college financial aid programs affects a variety of high school, college, and life outcomes. The evidence comes from an eight-year randomized trial where 2,587 high school ninth graders received a $12,000 merit-based grant offer. During high school, the program increased their college…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, High School Students, Grade 9, Merit Scholarships
Davis, Lois M. – RAND Corporation, 2019
Each year, more than 700,000 incarcerated individuals leave federal and state prisons and return to local communities where they will have to compete with individuals in those communities for jobs. In today's economy, having a college education is necessary to compete for many jobs, and the stakes for ex-offenders are higher than they are for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions