This article examines the development and the legacy of a policy making experience that was undertaken in Brazil from 2004 to 2006, under a project labelled "Educating for Freedom". The project sought to provide prison inmates with access to education. It was carried out by a coalition that comprised the Ministry of Education, the…

In addition to providing a detailed description of the method in which the Des Moines project operates, this handbook explores the key elements in a community-based corrections approach. It presents evaluation data, describes the experience of several communities which undertook to replicate this approach, and discusses the process by which other…

Shows that a Rehabilitative Planning Services Unit can provide invaluable assistance to a Public Defender's Office and enhance the quality of representation provided to indigent defendants. Such a unit could prove to be essential, particularly in situations where the defendant is ineligible for Pretrial diversion programs. (Author)

This report on the female offender in the Federal Prison System describes the response of the Bureau of Prisons to its mission of protecting society while also preparing offenders for release. Detailed descriptions are included of what happens to them in the Federal correctional system, particularly programs of counseling, education, training and…

Discusses resiliency programming as an alternative approach to program development for incarcerated adults, and describes a pilot project in a Georgia prison, Leadership Development, that uses the concept of resiliency to frame inmate education. Discusses implications of this model of correctional education. (SLD)

The Parole Officer Aide Program of Ohio employs qualified ex-offenders as Parole Officer Aides (POA). The POA is given on-the-job training for six months and assumes the identical tasks as parole officers with the exception of signing parole violation reports. The POA's background and familiarity with local situations gives him the ability to…

This guide contains a brief orientation to the Community Offender Resource Program (CORP) implemented in the Clark County Jail (Springfield, Ohio). A brief introduction describes the CORP program which contains three integrated components: counseling, career development, and family referral. Next, a need for the program is discussed, and the CORP…

This national study of 929 correctional facilities reports on the status of vocational education programs offered by 384 of the institutions. Also discussed are the 34 standards developed for planning and and evaluating correctional vocational education programs. (LRA)

This manual is designed to assist those individuals or groups responsible for developing educational and vocational programs for women in jail. The first section identifies the needs and problems of women in jail, focussing on discrimination against poor women unable to afford bail, the nonviolent nature of women's crimes, and the inequity of jail…

This paper reviews the historical metamorphosis of the concept of treatment and emergence of TASC as a federal strategy for effecting a criminal justice-health care interface to deal with drug abusers. Impact of the TASC program is discussed as well as implications for future efforts. (Author)

This volume of the "Publications of the National Institute of Justice" encompasses all documents published for distribution by the National Institute of Justice from 1978 to 1982. This comprehensive bibliography, which covers all the annual supplements since the last cumulative volume (1978), provides criminal justice professionals with…

The Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure analyzes the merits, limitiations, and problems of various approaches to prison industry and recommends measures and programs to improve industries. Federal and State legislation affecting prison industries were examined, several prison industries were visited, and the literature of prison industries was…

The report describes a project, the National Clearinghouse on Offender Employment Restrictions, designed to develop a program to help in the removal of formal barriers to job opportunities for ex-offenders. The report describes the project's effort in gathering research and development materials relating to licensing restrictions and other…

The Mutual Agreement Programing (MAP) process, as currently used in corrections, provides for the use of a legally binding contract between the inmate and the Paroling Authority. The contract outlines future inmate performance in the areas of skill training, education, institutional behavior, treatment, and work assignment or employment. It also…

This bibliography on halfway houses contains seventy-two entries (includes books, journals, films, technical reports, and government publications) which address the critical issues in halfway house operations, evaluations, and innovations. Each entry includes an annotation preceded by the appropriate bibliographic information, such as author,…