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Download full textJohn Jay College Institute for Justice and Opportunity, 2021
New York has been a leader in education in prison since the 1800s. At its peak in the 1990s, when incarcerated people were eligible for federal Pell and New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) grants, New York had 70 higher education programs operating in state prisons. In the mid-1990s, when legislators revoked Pell and TAP for…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Colleges, Partnerships in Education, Correctional Education
Federal Prison System, Washington, DC. Education Services Section. – 1978
The purpose of this guide is to help the Bureau of Prisons develop programs based on a balanced philosophy that recognizes that punishment, deterrence, incapacitation and access to opportunities for self-improvement are all valid purposes of incarceration. The Bureau's basic objectives are, first, to provide a safe and humane environment for…
Descriptors: Administrators, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Federal Government
Smith, Roger – 1977
In many correctional institutions today, more than half of the inmates have drug problems. The presence of such large numbers of addicted offenders poses special problems for the correctional administrator. The long-range aims of correctional drug programs are to reduce drug abuse and related criminal activity--goals that have not generally been…
Descriptors: Community Relations, Correctional Institutions, Criminals, Drug Abuse
Kirby, Christine L. – 1979
This document discusses the reasons for providing public library service to local jails from the viewpoint of the inmate, the library, and the jail administrator; and provides guidelines for establishing and operating this service. Topics covered include: obtaining approval from library and jail administrators for a library jail program; material…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Correctional Institutions, Guidelines, Library Material Selection
Ryan, T. A.; And Others
The document provides a model for planning and evaluating adult basic education (ABE) programs in correctional settings and is also a workbook for its implementation. It requires the use and understanding of systems techniques and concepts. The introduction discusses the rationale for and development of the conceptual model; basic systems,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Bibliographies, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions
Carter, Robert M.; And Others – 1980
Intended to help the correctional administrator make informed choices in planning, implementing, and improving community correctional centers, this program model on community correctional centers contains descriptions of three major program model options and information on how the correctional center should be operated. Components of the Des…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adults, Community Programs, Correctional Education
Commission on Accreditation for Corrections, Rockville, MD. – 1979
This manual of standards for juvenile training schools and services contains 487 American Correctional Association standards for the accreditation of juvenile training schools (youth development centers, villages, correction centers, treatment centers, service centers, homes for boys and girls, camps, and ranches). Standards presented are…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Adolescents, Civil Liberties, Coordination
