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[SpecialTopics 223] Community education for inmates who are released

David Rosen djrosen at comcast.net
Thu Sep 21 06:52:31 EDT 2006


Hello Colleagues,

I would like our guests -- and others -- to explore some other
challenging questions:

1. One of the characteristics of a successful prison education
program (Gerber and Fritsch, and Luiden and Perry) is follow-up with
inmates after release. Can you describe some models that do this
well, and that lead to released prisoners continuing their education
in the community?

2. Do you know of examples of prisons or jails that invite community
education programs to provide basic education inside so that when
inmates are released there is continuity with the community education
program outside? Can you tell us about how the model(s) works?

3. Is there any way that a web-based learning system could be offered
to prisoners for self study inside that they could continue to use
outside in a library, community technology center or at a community
education program? I know that prisons and jails cannot offer
Internet access, but are there any examples of a version of a web
site being run on an internal server, in the prison, offering
(nearly) the same experience as the user would have with internet
access to the web site?

I hope others will continue to post their questions and comments.
Steve Steurer plans to join us tomorrow or Monday, and the discussion
continues through Tuesday.

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