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Micah D. Dorsey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The United States currently has the world's largest prison population, emphasizing the need for effective reentry programs for individuals transitioning back into society after incarceration. Correctional education programs, particularly higher education, have been recognized for their role in offender rehabilitation, reducing recidivism rates,…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Higher Education
Alan Farrier; Michelle Baybutt – Health Education, 2024
Purpose: Greener on the Outside for Prisons (GOOP) is a therapeutic horticulture programme targeting the high levels of complex health and social care needs in prisons in England. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns led to unprecedented disruption in prisons in England. This paper examines the experiences of prisoners both during and…
Descriptors: Gardening, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Health
Shaw, Beth; Woods, Professor Kevin; Ford, Anne – Pastoral Care in Education, 2022
If not supported appropriately, children of imprisoned parents face potential adverse outcomes, including difficulties with academic progress and mental health. This systematic literature review aims to explore ways in which children of imprisoned parents in the UK can be supported in school. Research databases and publication records from third…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Parents, Foreign Countries
Birc, Stephanie – Education for Information, 2022
Banned Books Week is a hallmark tradition among US-based librarians and the American Library Association. Yet, the ALA and librarians across the profession are excluding the most significant and egregious violations of intellectual freedom and access to literature and information in our so-called free society -- the US prison system. In this…
Descriptors: Censorship, Books, Intellectual Freedom, Access to Information
Young, Brae; Turanovic, Jillian J. – Youth & Society, 2022
Although the visitation-recidivism relationship has been studied extensively among adult correctional populations, it has received little attention among incarcerated juveniles. In this study, we use a diverse sample of youth released from confinement in Florida (N = 7,296) to examine the effects of visitation and visitation consistency on two…
Descriptors: Youth, Juvenile Justice, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons
Strickland, Rebecca Danielle – Journal of Transformative Education, 2022
While many scholars have examined transformative learning in different prison education programs, the field has only recently reached Latin America. This article presents a participatory action research project which has been operating in a prison for men accused of organized crime in Jalisco, Mexico, since 2018. The analysis is based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons
Kelly Sullenberger – ProQuest LLC, 2022
One form of rehabilitation is education. Although 40% of inmates said they would enroll in a postsecondary degree program if given an opportunity, but only 27% of state prisons even offer college-level courses (McCoy & Burlingame, 2019; Rampey et al., 2016). Research has shown that completing a college-level degree while incarcerated can…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Access to Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Audrey Karlene Ives – ProQuest LLC, 2022
To lower recidivism, a private rehabilitation and correctional facility (PRCF) in South Florida provides educational and therapeutic programs to inmates; however, the facility reported increased recidivism rates for several successive years. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the association between 12 vocational training…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Vocational Education, Recidivism, Correctional Institutions
Shonae Mills – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Formerly incarcerated women often find it difficult to reintegrate into their communities after release. For this population, adjustment to changes directly impacts their reentry success in all areas of life. Previous research has identified significant gaps in social services for formerly incarcerated females (FIFs). Service providers'…
Descriptors: Females, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Labor Force Development
Rufo A. Labarrete; Jocylen A. Tiopes – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
The Philippines government adheres to a system of Education for all (EFA). Thus, it created the alternative learning system (ALS) as an alternative system of education to reach out Filipinos who were unable to complete the prescribed basic education cycle for various reasons. This study explored the lived experiences of the persons deprived of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Patrick Filipe Conway; Marisa Lally – Educational Policy, 2025
This article presents a synthesized historiography of higher education in American prisons, exploring interactions of federal, state, and institution-level policies within six specific states: California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New York, and Texas. We define considerations for researchers, policymakers, and advocates regarding…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education
Acuña Collado, Violeta; Ramos Concha, Gabriel – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
Based on case study research, this article analyzes a specific example of youth and adult prison education in Chile from the perspective of the movement for human rights.
Descriptors: Adult Education, Civil Rights, Youth, Adults
Debra A. Canady – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Incarcerated men look to the classroom as a refuge to learn, grow, and develop, departing from their typical, everyday environment where devaluation is the norm. Unfortunately, the absence of a humanizing pedagogical praxis exposes the danger of the classroom's inability to restore human dignity, implicitly perpetuating incarcerated men as less…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education, Males
Shannon Villarroel – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative case study examined the key components and characteristics of an entrepreneurship training and mentorship program for incarcerated males. For the previously incarcerated, barriers to employment serve as an impediment to financial stability when transitioning back into the community. To address obstacles to employment,…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Mentors, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education
Katie L. Millsap – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study examines the effect of increasing literacy skills during incarceration to improve adult inmate behavior, defined as a reduction in disciplinary reports received by participants. Male offenders, 18 years or older, housed in the Iowa Department of Corrections between July 1, 2017-June 30, 2019 who completed two or more TABE Reading…
Descriptors: Literacy, Skill Development, Institutionalized Persons, Behavior