Descriptions of various types of prison postsecondary education programs include both those inside the institution and on a precommitment or post-release basis. Concerns common to these programs include costs, geographic isolation of institutions, post-release linkages, transferability of earned credits, scheduling educational participation,…

The mission of UNICOR is both to employ and educate inmates of federal prisons. Currently, UNICOR provides employment to approximately 8,000, or 26% of the total federal prison population, in emerging fields such as electronics, data graphics, wood, and plastics and in traditional fields such as metals, shoe and brush, and textiles. In support of…

Prisoners' need for education and training is universal. A review of past educational programs for prisoners, as well as current "inside" and "outside" college programs for prisoners demonstrates that the use of college resources as a program alternative differs from situation to situation and from country to country. How prisoners can reasonably…

The challenge confronting creative educators concerned with using the correctional experience in positive ways is to structure an educational delivery system which takes into account the wide range of individual differences among people whose only common denominator is "serving time." Inherent is the problem of staff and public resistance to…