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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
Angelopoulos, Tasos – Research in Drama Education, 2023
The paper presents the Asseblywomen Project, conducted by Papalangki Theatre Company during 2020-2021 at the Women's Prison in Eleonas (Greece). Using as rehearsal material the comedy play "The Assemblywomen" by Aristophanes, the project aimed to encourage the participation of ex-drug addicted inmate women at the rehabilitation process,…
Descriptors: Females, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Drama
Li June Han – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2025
When facilitating group art therapy for young adult male inmates in prison, response art helped an art therapist to build therapeutic bonds and maintain self-care. Both artmaking in-session and post-session enabled the art therapist to traverse relational distance, nurture trust, and create social bonds in the group. By reflecting on her response…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Group Therapy, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Lindamarie Olson; Debra Des Vignes; Amy McLean; Bailey Wester; Uche Nwatu – Journal of Prison Education Research, 2025
Objective: The present study describes the development of the Indiana Prison Writers Workshop (IPWW), a creative writing workshop, based in group theory and designed for incarcerated settings. Methods: Quantitative evaluation data from IPWW workshops conducted from 2023-2024 were analyzed using IBM SPSS V. 29. Prior to the workshop, 149 men…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Writing Workshops, Creative Writing
Deanne K. Unruh; Keith Smolkowski; Jeff M. Gau; Kyle Reardon; Katherine W. Bromley; John R. Seeley; Lisa A. Strycker – Grantee Submission, 2024
This cluster-randomized efficacy trial evaluated the impact of the Ready for Wages intervention, a classroom-based social skills program designed to improve the employability of youth living and being educated in juvenile justice settings. Fifteen juvenile justice facility schools participated. Data were collected from 118 classrooms: 59 treatment…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Juvenile Justice, Correctional Education
Deanne K. Unruh; Keith Smolkowski; Jeff M. Gau; Kyle Reardon; Katherine W. Bromley; John R. Seeley; Lisa A. Strycker – Journal of Correctional Education, 2024
This cluster-randomized efficacy trial evaluated the impact of the Ready for Wages intervention, a classroom-based social skills program designed to improve the employability of youth living and being educated in juvenile justice settings. Fifteen juvenile justice facility schools participated. Data were collected from 118 classrooms: 59 treatment…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Juvenile Justice, Correctional Education
Emily K. Simpson; Sara Engimann; Jamie N. Deal; Sydney M. Sabbagha; Lexi Frazier – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2025
The United States has the highest number of people per capita in detention centers when compared to all other nations in the world. Stigma exists against people with justice system involvement, resulting in discrimination by healthcare providers and students and ultimately health inequities. This convergent mixed-methods study aimed to impact…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Occupational Therapy, Student Attitudes, Criminals
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
Spina, Francesca – Journal of Correctional Education, 2023
Research indicates that meditation-based programs can be rehabilitative for incarcerated populations. Specifically, these programs can help promote positive well-being, reduce recidivism, and help with relapse. This article reviews the effectiveness of existing research on meditation-based programs in correctional populations. The results of…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Metacognition, Research Reports
Elsa Ribeiro-Silva; Catarina Amorim – Educational Studies, 2024
This project, entitled B-FREE, was designed to develop personal and social skills in adolescents deprived of their liberty. The aim was to facilitate future social inclusion by transforming the participants' behaviour and self-responsibility for their actions, through Physical Education classes based on Hellison's Teaching Personal and Social…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Institutionalized Persons, Juvenile Justice
O'Brien, Kate; King, Hannah; Phillips, Josie; Dalton; Kath; Phoenix – Educational Review, 2022
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a corner of society where the spotlight has not fallen -- the black hole of prisons, confining predominantly poor, minoritised and often younger adults. Globally, during the pandemic, people detained in prison have been locked away in solitary, or near solitary, confinement for up to 23-hours a day.…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries
Harry, Adam G.; Cohen, Mary L.; Hollingworth, Liz – International Journal of Music Education, 2023
Our research evaluates the effectiveness of a community musical learning exchange (MLE) that included group singing, guided conversations, and reflection. The respondents (N = 290) who participated in the MLE included members of the Soweto Gospel Choir (n = 17), Soweto Gospel Choir Crew (n = 3), prison choir incarcerated singers (n = 41), prison…
Descriptors: Music Education, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons
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
Reese, Renford – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
The Reintegration Academy was founded in 2009. It was the first program of its kind in the United States to bring a group of parolees to a college campus for an extended period for academic programming. Since its inception, the Reintegration Academy has collaborated with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Division of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Adult Students
Yao, Ching-Teng; Lee, Bih-O; Hong, Hong; Su, Yi-Ching – Educational Gerontology, 2023
Music therapy can help social workers deal with negative behaviors and symptoms of dementia in older adults without drugs or physical restraints, thereby improving the quality of care. This study tested the effectiveness of music therapy activities for improving agitated behavior in older adults with dementia living in long-term care institutions.…
Descriptors: Music Therapy, Intervention, Dementia, Program Effectiveness