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TIE - Integrating Training, Industry and Education

NCJ Number
102710
Journal
Journal of Correctional Education Volume: 37 Issue: 3 Dated: (September 1986) Pages: 104-108
Author(s)
O D Coffey
Date Published
1986
Length
5 pages
Annotation
An approach to offender rehabilitation is described that combines the goals of prison industry, vocational training, and academic education.
Abstract
A review of the offender, institutional, and societal goals of training, industry, and education indicates much overlap among them. Some of these goals include instilling good work habits; providing work experience and credentials; increasing readiness for learning and training; reducing idleness; and increasing future employability and economic independence. Implementation< of an integrative rehabilitative model will require cooperative planning and administration and, ideally, the development of individualized plans for each inmate. Such a model also will require extensive preservice and inservice training for correctional staff. An approach combining training, industry, and education may provide a better and more productive means of returning inmates to the community successfully than the more common approach in which the three areas work in isolation and often in competition. 3 references.