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		Abstract
Title Back to school or back to jail? Fighting illiteracy to reduce recidivism	Date 1993	Abstract This is a reprint of a journal article describing the literacy programs in correctional institutions in the United States as ...
Title Back to school: a guide to continuing your education after prison	Date 2007	Abstract This planning guide contains information for inmates headed for release on earning a General Education Development credential...
Title Baseline study: education in county jails	Date 1990	Abstract This research report on educational programs in California county jails was prepared to provide a factual basis for understan...
Title Building jobs, rebuilding lives; placing ex-offenders with employers in the residential and light commercial construction industry	Date 1999	Abstract This manual provides a method of facilitating ex-offender employment. The concept includes two parts - viewing inmates and ...
Title California Department of Corrections statewide literacy plan	Date 1998	Abstract This plan responds to the federal Prison Literacy Act and mandates a standardized approach for implementing literacy instruct...
Title Community-based correctional education	Date 2011	Abstract The report presents information from fifteen community-based education programs in ten states-from charter schools to technic...
Title Correctional education: selected aspects	Date 1986	Abstract Correctional education is a generic term describing a wide range of educational activities that take place in institutional a...
Title Creating a vision in correctional education	Date 1990	Abstract The article discusses the importance of vision, as a function of strategic planning, to educational programs in the correctio...
Title Current issues in correctional education	Date February 25, 2004	Abstract This document summarizes conversations and interviews with leaders in correctional and adult education, addressing public pol...
Title English language instruction for incarcerated youth	Date 2003	Abstract This digest discusses the issues and challenges in providing English language instruction to Latino and other linguistically ...
Title Literacy behind bars: results from the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy Prison Survey	Date May 2007	Abstract Published by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), "Literacy Behind Bars" is the report of the 2003 National A...
Title Pell Grants for prisoners	Date 1993	Abstract This article describes in interesting detail the history related to inmate eligibility for Pell Grant higher education assist...
Title Prison literacy programs	Date 1995	Abstract The Digest sets the context of prison literacy programs, outlines some of the constraints, and describes what factors work.
Title Reentry education model	Date 2012	Abstract This report outlines a correctional education reentry model illustrating an education continuum to bridge to support individu...
Title Solving security problems through education	Date 1991	Abstract This article describes how the inmate education program at one of the Los Angeles County Jail's is meeting the needs of the H...
Title Success stories: life skills through literature	Date 1997	Abstract This publication is an introduction to the theory and practice of using literature to teach life skills to persons who are or...
Title Teaching the hard-to-reach: working with releasees and probationers	Date [1986]	Abstract This handbook is designed to assist adult educators in providing continued adult education services to releasees and probatio...
Title Timing is essential to the success of correctional education	Date 1989	Abstract The article makes the case that reaching the incarcerated individual at the right moment in his educational life-span is both...
Title Vocational education in corrections	Date 1990	Abstract The alert summarizes issues related to vocational education for individuals confined to corrections institutions. Annotated ...