TEST RESULTS WERE AVAILABLE FOR 540 MALE INMATES. OF THESE MEN, 69 PERCENT TESTED AT ABOVE BORDERLINE INTELLIGENCE BUT APPROXIMATELY 41 PERCENT FUNCTIONED AT THE FOURTH GRADE LEVEL OR LOWER IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE THREE TESTED AREAS, WITH WRITING THE WEAKEST AREA FOR MOST, READING NEXT. INMATES WHO FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL BEFORE 1964 TESTED HIGHER ACADEMICALLY THAN THE YOUNGER GROUP. IN FACT, PERFORMANCE PROGRESSIVELY DECREASED FROM THE OLDEST TO THE YOUNGEST. THE 353 BLACK INMATES HAD THE POOREST SCORES. THE 187 WHITE INMATES HAD BETTER SCORES BUT WERE STILL, ON THE AVERAGE, BELOW THE TEST LEVELS FOR STATEWIDE ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES. THERE SEEMS TO BE SIGNIFICANT EVIDENCE TO INDICATE THAT THESE MEN COULD PERFORM AT A SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER LEVEL IF THEY WERE PROPERLY EDUCATED. STUDY RESULTS ARE PRESENTED IN BOTH TABULAR AND NARRATIVE FORM. FOR VOLUME I, SEE NCJ 68072.