Strategies for managing long-term offenders, compared to those for short-term offenders, must try to minimize the potential for monotony and fear of deterioration, and to occupy long-termers productively through enhanced opportunities for education and employment. The inmate classification system will have to be refined to account for differences in this changing long-term subgroup. The Federal Bureau of Prisons Office of Research and Evaluation has begun to investigate questions involving the management of long-termers; one option, to be considered among others, is a prison-career planning programs.