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Direct linkNicole Contreras-García – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
This study examines formerly incarcerated student programming from practitioner perspectives at California community colleges. The following research questions guide the study: 1) How has the pandemic and concurrent sociopolitical contexts influence the way staff, faculty, and administrators approach their work? 2) How do practitioners describe…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Criminals, Correctional Rehabilitation
Zhang, Sheldon X.; Roberts, Robert E. L.; Callanan, Valerie J. – Crime & Delinquency, 2006
In the late 1990s, California legislators funded a statewide, community-based correctional program intended to reduce parolee recidivism. Overseen by the California Department of Corrections, the Preventing Parolee Crime Program (PPCP) provided literacy training, employment services, housing assistance, and substance abuse treatment to tens of…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Substance Abuse, Rehabilitation Programs, Correctional Institutions
Download full textBregman, Ralph; And Others – 1975
This study represents the combined efforts of three separate institutions (California Department of Education, the California Department of Corrections, and the California Advisory Council for Vocational Education and Technical Training) to obtain data for more responsible program planning. Research strategy was developed to elicit facilitating or…
Descriptors: Correctional Rehabilitation, Data Collection, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
Sacramento County Probation Dept., Sacramento, CA. – 1994
JurisLIT was a literacy training effort operated jointly by the Sacramento County Probation Department, the Sacramento County Office of Education, the Los Rios Community College District, and the Superior and Municipal Courts of Sacramento County from March 1990 to March 1994. The program required selected probationers aged 18-30 to participate in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cooperative Programs, Correctional Rehabilitation, Criminals
Robison, James O. – 1974
This report is an evaluation, using randomized experimental/control design, of a program involving negotiated contractual agreements (MAP) between prisoners and parole boards for specific parole dates contingent on performance in work, training and treatment activities. Contracts were generally for less than six months. Both feasibility and…
Descriptors: Contracts, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Rehabilitation, Employment Patterns
California State Human Relations Agency, Sacramento. Board of Corrections. – 1971
This series of comprehensive task force reports on jails, prisons, and juvenile institutions presents overviews of corrective institutions in California, models, survey findings about the current systems, and a wide range of general and specific recommendations. Various tables and charts illustrate the data, which were collected by a review of the…
Descriptors: Career Development, Community Role, Community Services, Correctional Institutions
