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  
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