[NIFL-WOMENLIT:2863] RE: Is fear an obstacle to correctional ed programming?

From: Alan Toops (alantoops@cs.com)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2004 - 15:13:39 EST


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Gail,

(Slightly off the topic)

I recently retired from the Ohio Prison Education program after 30 years
as a classroom teacher, Principal and Assistant Superintendent for
Curriculum and Instruction. Your research paper and the thoughtful
comments from the list serve folks in general has been very timely and
of great interest to me. 

I don't often reply to posts but do monitor these list serves. I can
illustrate these comments with literally hundreds of stories from
offenders, classroom teachers and in counters with street able program
staff. But Janet framed it more eloquently with her recent post. 

In Ohio, nearly 95% of all offenders sentenced to Ohio's prisons and
Community Correctional Centers will return to their home communities and
the average length of stay hovers between 2 and 3 years. 

But more germane to your general topic is that the Ohio Central School
System and the Department of Correction operate several ABLE funded
"Community Justice Centers" designed to provide transitional services to
offenders re-entering their community. Services include job placement,
housing, transportation and access to GED and ABLE classes. 

Also, the Department and the city of Cleveland's Mayor have announced a
joint reentry program for offenders returning to Cleveland. 

Ohio has a proactive reentry philosophy and has forged solid community
relationships all across the state.

Alan Toops


-----Original Message-----
From: nifl-womenlit@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-womenlit@nifl.gov] On Behalf
Of Gail Spangenberg
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 4:36 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2852] Is fear an obstacle to correctional ed
programming?

Friends,
I recently posted a notice about the availability of a new CAAL 
publication on correctional education, titled *Current Issues in 
Correctional Education: A Discussion & Compilation.*  Because the NIFL
listservs don't permit e-mail attachments for security reasons, I 
pointed interested persons to the CAAL web site 
(http://www.caalusa.org) and item 3 down the left column of the home 
page.


Gail
-- 
Gail Spangenberg
President
Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy
1221 Avenue of the Americas - 46th Floor
New York, NY 10020
212-512-2362, fax 212-512-2610
www.caalusa.org



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