Reports on the success of a community college demonstration project focusing on young probationers and designed to show that community colleges are uniquely suited to assist criminal offenders in learning to lead productive lives. (DC)

This project reviewed and critiqued educational and employment programs to assist exoffenders' reentry to the community. Chief criticisms include lack of followup studies; lack of relevance to life "outside"; and inaccurate, inconsistent, and unreliable research. (SK)

The purpose of this project was to provide total rehabilitation services to a group of handicapped inmates of the State Penitentiary System in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of returning them to society as productive citizens. This was to be accomplished by evaluating the rehabilitation potential of inmates, providing psychological and…

Intended for persons involved in planning and implementing prison vocational training programs, the guide contains detailed information on 66 inmate training programs throughout the country. Programs were selected for inclusion on the basis of meeting the following criteria: courses should be transportable or reproducible; have some unique…

This paper discusses the incidence of intellectual disability in the prison system of New South Wales, Australia; the management problems created for corrective services staff; prison programs offering work experience, interpersonal skills, and other skills; principles of normalization and the least restrictive alternative; special risks for…

Project CONNECT (Inmate Advocacy) was developed to provide counseling to inmates involved in the education programs at Fayette County Prison in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, before and immediately following their release. Twenty-one inmates who had been selected through a screening process received individual basic skills remediation in a classroom…

The primary goal of the Draper Project, begun in 1964, was to demonstrate the feasibility of operating a manpower training program in a correctional setting. As secondary goals, the project sought to individualize instruction, involve communities in the rehabilitation of the offender and disseminate the findings to correctional and educational…

The origin and development of Project NewGate are described from 1971-74. (The project presents a model program of higher education for incarcerated offenders, consisting of the in-prison phase, transitional phase, and release phase.) Specific project characteristics are discussed and include a 4-year academic program for prison inmates; an…

This book contains proceedings from a conference, held in Dublin, Ireland, on employment of prisoners and ex-offenders, including opening and closing addresses, papers from plenary sessions and summaries from panel sessions and workshops. The opening address, given by John O'Donoghue, is followed by "Including Prisoners and Ex-Offenders in…

The United States confronts the problem of a large and growing prison population, the majority of which is insufficiently literate. Added to the general effects of educational disability are the marginalizing factors of ethnicity, class, socioeconomic deprivation, and other handicaps. Historically, the situation in prison literacy is 150 years of…

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…

The Jail to Job program was developed to prepare soon-to-be released inmates of the Erie County Prison to seek employment and/or vocational/educational training. Forty-five inmates were assessed to determine their educational and ability levels, interests, and values. The inmates attended an 8-week (32-hour) course on the following topics:…

The Youth Offender Demonstration Project (YODP) combined oversight of youth offenders with services to support youth offenders' passage into the word of work by providing recommended social development strategies for youth offenders. YODP demonstration projects were funded in the following categories: (1) model community projects; (2) education…

Although the disappointing results of earlier ex-offender programs convinced many that "nothing works so let's just keep prisoners incarcerated longer," research in the 1980s and 1990s has shown that intensive pre-release employment training and post-release employment programs and support can cut the rate of recidivism. Current initiatives…

The Alternative Youth Employment Strategies (AYES) Project began as one of the demonstration projects funded under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Project Act in 1980. The program, which features three training models, is targeted toward high-risk, disadvantaged youth, especially minority youths from urban areas who had prior involvement…