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Barton, William H.; Mackin, Juliette R. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2012
In 2006, the administration of a state-run, secure juvenile correctional facility initiated an attempt to transform its institutional culture using a strength-based approach to assessment and case planning. This resulted in a rapid improvement in institutional climate. The current study revisits this setting several years later to see if those…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Sustainability, Program Effectiveness, Institutionalized Persons
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Edwards-Wiley, Tina L.; Chivers, Nadia – Journal of Correctional Education, 2005
To examine the perception of instructors who teach in prison college programs, two studies were conducted, the first in 1993 and the second in 2003. Three areas of measurement were included in the survey instrument sent to professors working in the Ball State University's Prison Program, Muncie, IN. The first measurement was that of instructors'…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons