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Corrections Education Research
The following descriptions and citations will be found on an Institution of Education Sciences (US Department of Education) Webpage at http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2007473
Literacy Behind Bars: Results From the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy Prison Survey - Web Release May 2007
Description (Quoted from the site)- The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) included the first assessment of the English literacy of incarcerated adults since 1992. The assessment was administered to approximately 1,200 adults (age 16 and older) incarcerated in state and federal prisons, as well as approximately 18,000 adults living in households. Three types of literacy were measured: Prose, Document, and Quantitative. Results were reported in terms of scale scores (on a 500-point scale) and four literacy levels—Below Basic, Basic, Intermediate, and Proficient. The findings in this report—Literacy Behind Bars—indicate the changes in literacy among incarcerated adults between 1992 and 2003. The report also compares the literacy of adults in the prison and household populations and across groups of prison inmates with different characteristics, including race/ethnicity, gender, educational attainment, age, language spoken before starting school, and parents’ educational attainment. The report looks at the relationship between literacy, education, and job training, including traditional academic education, vocational education, and skill certification. Additionally, the report examines the relationship between literacy and experiences in prison other than education, including prison work assignments, library use, computer use, and reading frequency. Finally, the report looks at the relationship between literacy, criminal history, and current offense. The results show how the relationship between literacy, type of offense, expected length of incarceration, expected date of release, and previous criminal history has changed since 1992.
The following descriptions and citations will be found on the Correctional Education Association Home Page under Research http://www.ceanational.org/ You will find other studies in that collection which are not listed here.
Intergenerational Literacy Programs for Incarcerated Parents and Their Families: A Review of the Literature - May 2006
William R. Muth, Ph.D.. Virginia Commonwealth University http://literacy.kent.edu/cra/2006/wmuth/index.html
Locked Up and Locked Out, An Educational Perspective on US Prison Population - 2006
Richard J. Cooley, Paul E. Barton. Educational Testing Service. Article can be found on the following site linked from "Current Research". http://www.ceanational.org/
Correctional Education as Crime Control Program - March 2004
Findings of Audrey Bazos and Jessica Hausman, UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research. This study compares the cost effectiveness of two crime control methods - educating prisoners and expanding prisons. Correctional education is almost twice as cost effective as crime control policy. http://www.ceanational.org/PDFs/ed-as-crime-control.pdfCurrent Issues in Correctional Education - February 2004
Gail Spandenberg, Council for the Advancement of Adult Education in cooperations with the Correctional Education Association. The author states that although there is an evident need for correctional education "economic and policy developments have worsened dramatically for the past several years, causing a reducation in programs and staffing." The author also suggests that correctional education leaders should determine effectively how to do more with less for a very large and needy segment of the American population.http://www.caalusa.org/correct_ed_paper.pdf
The following descriptions and citations will be found on the NIFL LINCS Special Collection on Correctional Education http://www.nwlincs.org/correctional_education/showcase.html You will find other studies in that collection which are not listed here.
What are the Economic effects of Earning a GED in Prison? - March 2004
Summary of findings of study by John Tyler and and Jeffrey Kling. Focus on Basics, 10/05 http://www.ncsall.net/?id=822To read the full study, “Prison-Based Education and Re-Entry into the Mainstream Labor Market,(3/04)” go to http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Education/facpages/j_tyler/pdfs/papers/Prison_d11_sage2_brownWP.pdf
Reducing Prisoner Reoffending - January 2002
Currently around 58 per cent of prisoners are reconvicted within two years of being released. Research indicates that factors associated with reoffending include poor reasoning and thinking skills, drugs misuse and low levels of literacy and numeracy. The Prison Service in England and Wales has made good progress in introducing programmes designed to help tackle these factors and in September 2000 established a Strategy Board to provide direction for the further development and delivery of programmes. This article discusses these efforts and future needs. http://www.nao.gov.uk/publications/nao_reports/01-02/0102548.pdf
Three State Recidivism Study - September 2001
"The Correctional Education Association conducted the Three State Recidivism Study for the United States Department of Education Office of Correctional Education. The study was designed to see if education, independent of other programs, could have significant impact on the behavior of inmates after release. The analysis of the data indicates that inmates who participated in education programs while incarcerated showed lower rates of recidivism after three years." http://www.ceanational.org/PDFs/3StateFinal.pdf
For more research-based resources, search the entire Correctional Education Special Collection
