Designed to assist college managers and correctional staff in operating prison education programs, this manual provides information and guidelines based on Hagerstown Junior College's 12-year involvement with the Maryland Correctional Training Center (MCTC). First, introductory material reviews the program's history, the lowered recidivism rates…

TO EFFECT CHANGE FROM TRADITIONAL METHODS OF HANDLING OFFENDERS, CORRECTIONAL STAFF MEMBERS MUST BE HELPED TOWARD A CHANGE OF ATTITUDE AND PRACTICES. THIS MANUAL IS DESIGNED TO AID A TRAINING OFFICER TO ASSIST A STAFF IN MAKING INTERNAL CHANGES IN A RURAL CORRECTIONAL SETTING. INSTEAD OF DESCRIBING SPECIFIC CORRECTIONAL TRAINING CONTENT AND…

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…

This set of thirty-four national standards for vocational education programs in corrections describes a set of ideal conditions in five areas of vocational education program operations within a correctional institution or system. By providing ideals to which existing conditions and objectives can be compared for evaluation purposes, the standards…

This handbook presents the perspectives of more than 60 leading authorities on the study and practice of adult and continuing education. The following are among the papers included: "A Selective History of Adult Education Handbooks" (A.L. Wilson, E.R. Hayes); "The Concept of Critically Reflective Practice" (Stephen D.…