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Donald Neil Barnett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Law enforcement agencies across the country are confronted with the problems associated with substance abuse. Law enforcement personnel receive only cursory training on substance abuse and lack targeted training that addresses the complex problems that are associated with it, such as co-existing mental health issues. This study, conducted on…
Descriptors: Law Enforcement, Training, Substance Abuse, Mental Disorders
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Edson Júnior Silva da Cruz; Lília Ieda Chaves Cavalcante; Edilene Maia Liebentritt; Janari da Silva Pedroso – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The objective of this study was to evaluate the motor, cognitive and language development of babies living in two institutional contexts. Seventy babies participated in the study: 35 from prisons and 35 from shelters. Thirty-five mothers of hospitalized babies and 10 caregivers of hospitalized babies also participated in this study. The…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Toddlers
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Gagnon, Joseph Calvin – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2022
Dr. Peter Leone is an internationally renowned researcher and advocate for incarcerated youth. Throughout his almost four decades at the University of Maryland, his expertise and research have influenced lawsuits related to the provision of education and special education services in juvenile corrections and paved the way for changes in policy and…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Advocacy, Correctional Education
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Higgins, Lorraine – Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, 2021
This article examines the relationship between education and rehabilitation within the prison context. It begins by exploring the concept of rehabilitation, examining if prison rehabilitation is possible or if it is what Pat Carlen describes as a "penal imaginary". Drawing on this idea, it considers how rehabilitation may act as a way of…
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Rehabilitation, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
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Alicia H. Sitren – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
Experiential learning is an important component of a criminal justice education. To date, the use of virtual technologies as a form of experiential learning has not been tested. To address this gap, a virtual tour detailing mental illness occurring in prison was provided to undergraduate students in five criminal justice courses taught in two U.S.…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Experiential Learning, Criminology, Correctional Rehabilitation
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David Kocik; Casey O’Ceallaigh; Kayla Fettig; Maria Novotny – Community Literacy Journal, 2024
Community literacy and writing scholarship have been central to advancing disciplinary commitments to prison literacy and teaching within prison systems. Yet, within this field, little scholarship has applied prison literacy work to issues encountered by those who are formerly incarcerated. This article responds to that gap and outlines new…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Sexual Abuse
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Michelle Candy – Adult Literacy Education, 2024
The North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has developed two methods of working with low-literacy students. One is testing for accommodations for GED testing. The other is integrating the STAR literacy program for adult readers.
Descriptors: Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Adult Students
Valerie D. Nguyen; Rosemary Russ; Frank B. Davis; Marianne Oleson; Rachel Ritacco; Dant’e Cottingham; Mark Español; Aaron Hicks; Delilah McKinney; Michael Koenigs – Metropolitan Universities, 2025
Since the recent expansion of higher education in prison (HEP) programs, correctional systems and universities have been working to optimize these programs to yield maximum impact. Collaborating with individuals with lived experience of incarceration and participation in higher education could provide valuable insights toward improving these…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Correctional Education, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
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Abouras, Rachel Lauren – About Campus, 2023
At a time when higher education in prison (HEP) is growing in popularity and acceptance, a myopic approach threatens the field's potential to develop into a more robust and sustainable enterprise. Blindly accepting HEP as a personal and/or societal good while failing to consider the ethical challenges that individuals engaging in HEP work may face…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions, Higher Education
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Gordon, Deborah; Posadas, Jenny; Cipriano, Barbara M.; Parker, Ava L.; Ocean, Mia – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Community college professionals actively cultivate social justice within the U.S. system of higher education. We seek to meet the community wherever they and their skills are and provide the opportunities to take their knowledge and credentials to the next level. This can include offering incarcerated-based education. This work can be life…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Vocational Education, Educational Certificates, Institutionalized Persons
Finkel, Ed – Community College Journal, 2023
A widely cited Emory University study found that while 76% of incarcerated Americans return to prison within five years, that rate drops to 55% for those who take high school classes, 30% for those who complete vocational training, and 13.7% for those who complete an associate degree. Community colleges play a key role in ensuring that people…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Partnerships in Education
Nielsen-Pheiffer, Christiana Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (2004) entitles students who qualify for special education services to a free and appropriate education (FAPE) across all public education settings, including juvenile justice (JJ) facilities. JJ facilities have disproportionately higher rates of students with disabilities, who tend to experience…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Juvenile Justice, Correctional Institutions, Students with Disabilities
Inita S. Knox – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Adjudicated youth face a multitude of barriers when reentering school following incarceration. School administrators and educational personnel know very little about how these students perceive their reentry experiences and what the students identify as needed supports, resources, and barriers throughout the process. This qualitative study used…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Barriers, Reentry Students, Institutionalized Persons
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Quinn, Anthony; Denney, David; Hardwick, Nick; Jalil, Rahul; Meek, Rosie – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
The benefits of government administrative data are well-established, but research has not examined processes by which these data can be identified, organised and governed in line with ethical considerations. This is an important undertaking given the potential benefits of robust administrative data, especially at a time when the collection of…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Data Collection, Experience, Foreign Countries
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Kristin Turney; Amy Gong Liu; Estéfani Marín – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2024
Despite reasons to believe that paternal incarceration has heterogeneous consequences for children, little research explores the processes underlying variation in children's responses to this adverse event. We use data from the Jail and Family Life Study, an in-depth interview study of incarcerated fathers and their family members (including their…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Influence, Correctional Institutions, Criminals
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