NCJ Number
81464
Journal
Corrections Today Volume: 44 Issue: 1 Dated: (February 1982) Pages: 66,68-73
Date Published
1982
Length
7 pages
Annotation
This report describes the essentials of a corrections program designed to use both vocational and academic training to develop work and life function skills in handicapped inmates.
Abstract
The project discussed is located at the Kennedy Center (Federal Correctional Institution) in Morgantown, W.Va. The center is an all-male minimum-security institution. The subjects involved in the project all qualified for the Adult Basic Education Program at the prison. The steps that constitute the treatment program are screening, employed to identify handicapped learners other than the hearing or visually impaired; evaluation to identify a vocational area suitable for the inmate; vocational training site placement; academic intervention, or instruction designed to develop needed vocational, life survival, and work adjustment skills; work adjustment skill development; and followup procedures. Appropriate job placement results from an integrated approach using vocational and educational intervention resulting in functional skill development so that the individual can be competitively employed. Early contact with the State Vocational Rehabilitation Division is made so that eligibility decisions can be ascertained on a given inmate. Project personnel assist the rehabilitation counselor by providing medical, psychological, education, and vocational evaluation information needed to determine client eligibility. Progress reports are also provided to the rehabilitation counselor on the client's development. Staff inservice training at the Kennedy Center is underway. About 30 references are supplied.