Design/methodology/approach – This article steps away from day-to-day classroom descriptions and focuses on the larger picture of the conditions necessary to succeed in implementation of novel and socially vital programs to currently incarcerated women in the USA. Findings – The benefits of working...
a nonprofit that provides job training to former inmates. She says the odds are already stacked against prisoners, who are often ineligible for social safety net programs, may have strained family relations and have little to no professional network to fall back on. ...
Arguments that prisoners in America ought to have access to education go back to before the founding of the country. But programs to deliver that education only started growing in earnest after a 1972 amendment to the Higher Education Act made inmates eligible for Pell Grants. During the tough-...
It’s remarkable how quicklyCollege Behind Barssolidifies its emotional bonds to its primary subjects. Over four hours, your heart with break and your hopes will soar for inmates like Jule, the first of the incarcerated students to get to return to a world of freedom he hasn’t experienced ...
state’s prisoners. Surely a sample of offenders this large must represent at least some meaningful segment of the total offender population. Finally, while one might argue that being incarcerated may alter the responses of these inmates through some institutionalization process, all of these ...
The present study used The Personal Development Test to serve as the basis for identifying the at-risk students for drop-out purposes using incarcerated juvenile delinquents and prison inmates test scores. A drop-out prevention program was developed to prevent such drop out of at-risk students at...
Still, obstacles remain. Applying for the Pell funding, which does not have to be repaid, can be a burden for inmates who generally can’t receive emails or fill out the financial aid forms online. Incarcerated students can only use the grant for courses from colleges approved by...
Despite their impaired judgment and reasoning skills, there are some African American male prison inmates who have an avid interest in obtaining an education and completing a college program while incarcerated. Therefore, I documented their experiences in their college vocational programs.;The value of...
One hundred two male inmates of county jail, randomly selected from those referred for psychiatric evaluation, were studied. Ninety percent had had psychia... Lamb,H. Richard - 《Archives of General Psychiatry》 被引量: 450发表: 1982年 Sexual Orientation Perspectives of Incarcerated Bisexual and ...
Interest in prison-basededucationhas grown in recent years as an approach to reduce recidivism and improve the future of people who are incarcerated for crimes. In 2018, RAND updated and expanded its earlier evaluation of the effectiveness of correctional education programs and found that the origina...