Prisoner Reentry To Society

This guide helps organizations better understand the central role that basic skills and related educational credentials play in successful reentry of formerly incarcerated individuals.

This themed edition of the COABE Journal highlights educational programs, approaches, and professionals who work with adults currently serving or who have served time in correctional settings.

This collection of guidelines, tools and resources is designed to help education providers and their partners create a reentry education continuum for formerly incarcerated adults.

This report presents an approach for reentry education providers to develop an education continuum that strengthens their services and bridges the gap between facility- and community-based programs.

The Back to School reentry guide, funded and revised in 2010 by the U.S. Department of Education, is intended to assist adults in state prison planning to pursue or continue their education after release.

The correctional education reentry model illustrating an education continuum to bridge the gap between prison and education and training programs.

This resource is an overview of the state of correctional education in the United States.  It discusses the varying causes that has led to an increase in the need for correctional education along with the different possible solutions for overcoming the challenges posed.  This is a good resource for an individual who wants a strong foundation in background information in correctional education.

This study compares the cost-effectiveness of these two crime control methods - educating prisoners and expanding prisons. One million dollars spent on correctional education prevents about 600 crimes, while that same money invested in incarceration prevents 350 crimes. Correctional education is almost twice as cost-effective as a crime control policy.