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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
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
Daniel M. Leeds; Juliana Pearson; Simone Robers; Leslie Scott – Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, 2020
The recent Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) provides insights into the skill levels of incarcerated adults ages 18-74 for the first time in more than a decade. Initial analyses of PIAAC data indicated that 31 percent of incarcerated adults with dependent children under 18 have low literacy skill levels…
Descriptors: Adults, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Parents
Reese, Renford – International Review of Education, 2019
This article briefly compares the prison system in the United States with progressive correctional systems in the world, before pivoting to discuss the lessons learned from the author's development of the Prison Education Project (PEP). PEP has expanded educational opportunities for inmates in 12 Californian correctional facilities. With the…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Correctional Institutions
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
Johnson, Krystal; Pechota, Damion – Education Commission of the States, 2020
In a one-day count in 2018, an estimated 37,529 youths resided in juvenile placement facilities across the United States. While the estimated number of juveniles in residential placement facilities has dropped by more than half over 20 years, alternative placement to other government juvenile facilities continues to remove youths from their…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Art Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Curry, Michelle; Jacobi, Tobi – Community Literacy Journal, 2017
Entering jail is an assault on the senses. While volunteers and inmates might share visceral experiences of entering the institution, to enter "into" jail is not the same as being "in" jail. To be "in" is to be monitored--watched and listened to without exception or reprieve. To be in jail is to follow unwritten laws…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Writing (Composition), Writing Workshops
Turner, Emily; Broad, Rose; Miles, Caroline; Maruna, Shadd – Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, 2019
Drawing on self-report data from a Learning Criminology Inside initiative bringing together BA Criminology students from the University of Manchester with prison-based students from a category C resettlement prison, this article will consider the process of studying desistance "together" in this collaborative setting. It will discuss the…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Student Behavior
Davis, Lois M.; Tolbert, Michelle C. – RAND Corporation, 2019
Before 2013, incarcerated individuals in North Carolina could enroll in college correspondence courses, but there was no coordinated effort to provide a path toward a postsecondary degree or credential. Furthermore, there was no coordination around reentry. The Vera Institute of Justice's Pathways from Prison to Postsecondary Education Project…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Postsecondary Education, Access to Education
Isiaka, Abdulaziz; Adewuyi, Rasheed Shofiu – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2020
Investigating the effectiveness of inmates' educational programs was the major focused of this research in Ilorin remand homes, Nigeria. Specifically inmates' views on effectiveness of vocational and literacy educational program were investigated. This study was descriptive survey. 108 inmates were sampled using simple random sampling technique.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Zavrel, Lauren L. – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2019
At Larch Corrections Center, a men's prison in Southwest Washington, GED® Faculty Lauren Zavrel has created two original programs: an internship program for graduate students to gain experience in corrections education, and a tutor training curriculum for inmate teaching assistants (TAs) who tutor GED® and business students. Graduate interns…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education, Internship Programs
Tabios, Heather – Educational Perspectives, 2019
In order to define her educational philosophy, the author created the following action research project. Through it, she became aware of how all interactions and experiences each one has, no matter at what stage in life, impacts the way one thinks, feels, and acts differently. She challenged herself to create an environment for the children to…
Descriptors: Males, Juvenile Justice, Delinquency, Intervention
Wasserman, Kyla; Walter, Johanna; Luczywek, Beata; Wagner, Hannah; Redcross, Cindy – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2019
This report presents findings from a feasibility evaluation of the Bridges to Pathways (Bridges) program. Bridges was a program for young men in Chicago between the ages of 17 and 21 years who were involved with the criminal or juvenile justice system and lacked a high school credential. The program offered intensive mentoring and case management,…
Descriptors: Males, Young Adults, Adolescents, Juvenile Justice
Taliaferro, Wayne; Pham, Duy – Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success, 2017
This brief examines how California is aligning education and training opportunities for people who are currently or formerly incarcerated. It is the first report in our series "Reconnecting Justice in the States," which will explore coordinated justice, education, and workforce policy and practice at the state level. It is part of…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Social Justice, Change Strategies
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