A survey was conducted to identify the information needs of a five percent sample of men and women incarcerated in seven Maryland State Correctional Facilities for use in planning relevant library services to this population. Findings indicated a lack of basic information concerning rules for correct institutional behavior, with one third of the…

Under the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) of the New York State Education Department, inmates of correctional facilities have been able to enroll in courses leading to postsecondary degrees at accredited institutions. In cooperation with colleges having resident HEOP programs, New York State prisons implement (1) in-prison programs…

This report presents the data from a national survey which was designed to answer the question, "What is the status of vocational education in correctional institutions?" The data were collected from 459 institutions (state, federal, military, and jail) which offered vocational education at the time of the survey; the purpose of the survey was to…