A case exists for there being a moral dimension to prison education and a case against moral education programs in prison. The argument is made that prisoners are one part of a large group of citizens who suffer from uneven development in the cognitive and moral realms due to biographical and structural factors. (Author/CT)

Provides initial information on the relationship of the Shipley-WAIS Conversion scores to the WAIS-R (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale). Results support the need for new conversion norms for Shipley to WAIS-R scores. The old Shipley to WAIS conversion scores overestimated the WAIS-R scores, particularly among lower-functioning inmates.…

Correctional rehabilitation can be enhanced by affective education dealing with self-concept and moral development. Strong affective education programs can be designed using the ideas of Kohlberg and Freire in group discussions. (Author/SK)

Reports on the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of an adult learning contract approach to educating the protective custody inmates at Walpole Correctional Institution in Massachusetts. An appeal is issued for further dialogue and discussion with regard to educating the inmate as an adult learner. (Author/CT)

Describes attempts to form a communication group among male and female inmates. The failure of this effort is discussed with emphasis on the special problems and needs of groups in prisons and the lack of insight among the institution's administration and staff. (JAC)

This paper examines two themes pertaining to children of incarcerated parents in Norway. The first is the visiting room of a Norwegian prison. The paper briefly describes conditions in and provides photographs of the children's corner of the visiting room at Norway's Oslo Fengsel Prison. The corner was established in 1998 with toys and fresh paint…

Reform is needed in all aspects of rehabilitation, including the buildings, which should match modern efforts at treatment. (JB)

The main experimental hypothesis of this study, that high sensation seeking subjects would be characterized by a significantly greater number of escape attempts than low sensation seeking subjects, has been strongly supported. (Author)

A comparison is made between traditional schools and the school in a county jail and how the jail school copes with a situation in which there is external control over (1) when its students arrive and how long they stay, and (2) what kinds and how many students there are. (Author)

This special issue of Manpower is entitled Making Prison Training Work." (BH)

This article reviews recent literature on correctional crowding, reports a recent study on density and the recommendations made to the institution on the basis of the study, and discusses implications for policy involving this type of research. (Author/BW)

This study provides data from 11 adult correctional institutions on the percentage of residents who took standardized tests--educational, intelligence, vocational, and psychological tests--over a one-year period. Many individual differences in institutions are noted. (Author)

Preoccupation with due process has tended to obscure the substantive issues of probation administration. Restraint is an important goal of probation; it can be realized by setting specific, enforceable probation conditions to limit the probationer's opportunity for further crime and revoking probation if the probationer cannot abide by reasonable…

Provides a rationale for a more humanistic approach to prerelease programming which focuses on the needs of inmates during this transitional period. A two-tiered educational and counseling-program model, which emphasizes education, information giving, and empowerment, is offered as an alternative to past prison programs. (RJM)