NCJ Number
85359
Date Published
1982
Length
5 pages
Annotation
Correctional industries and vocational correctional education must cooperate in the development of programs and materials together with the implementation of training systems if inmate workers are to be prepared to compete in the job market and function effectively in jobs after release.
Abstract
It is unrealistic to expect correctional education to meet all the training needs of correctional industries. Also, to attach a basic skills laboratory or classroom to a correctional industries plant, and by so doing expect to meet all the training needs of the plant and the inmates involved in its operations, is also in error. What is needed is a 'training systems' approach that will consider both the educational goals of inmates and the production of goods and services for the system that supports their essential needs. Specific paths that should be pursued are career path development for long-term inmates within correctional industries operations; formal cooperation between correctional industries and vocational education in the establishment of job placement activities, with the possibility of developing a clearinghouse of job information for inmates, vocational instructors, and correctional industries staff; and the interfacing of vocational credit and college credit for associate degree programs. The upgrading of vocational instructors' technical skills for teacher certification on site by correctional industries' staff and management should also be undertaken. The instructional design sequence currently used by the training department of Georgia Correctional Industries is described.