This study examined a sample of 417 federally incarcerated male inmates in Canada. It assessed the outcome effects of participation in Education and the Offender Substance Abuse Pre-Release Program (OSAPP) with respect to sanctioned offences committed at Saskatchewan Penitentiary and Edmonton Institution between 2000 and 2003. The study used data from the Correctional Service of Canada’s Offender Management System. One-Way ANOVA, repeated measures ANOVA, and dependent sample t-tests were used to examine the differences between program participation and recidivism. The study examined the differences among Non-Participants, Education only, OSAPP only, Education then OSAPP, and OSAPP then Education inmates during three time periods, pre-program, during-program, and post-program. Statistically significant differences were found between the Education program group and the Non-Participant group. There were no statistically significant differences among the program groups. Education was effective in reducing the rate of sanctioned offences during the program. OSAPP was effective in reducing the rate of sanctioned offences during the program. The study also assessed differences for Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal inmates. During the program, Aboriginals in Education committed fewer sanctioned offences before than after the program. Aboriginals in the other program groups were no more or less likely to re-offend than Non-Aboriginals. This study establishes Education then OSAPP as successful dynamic security programs. That is, while inmates are assigned to iii these programs the rate of sanctioned offences diminishes, which, in turn contributes to a safer institutional setting. / Thesis (Master, Education) -- Queen's University, 2007-09-07 13:41:22.767

This research presents the first empirical study of music provision in Scottish prisons and explores the potential benefits of music engagement for prisoners, with a focus on young offenders’ experience. The scope of the study begins with an investigation into music provision in prisons throughout Scotland by means of a small-scale survey. This survey showed that despite a lack of documentation, music is currently present in Scottish prisons and has been previously, albeit intermittently. Music provision included a range of activity: learning how to play musical instruments, singing, music theory, song-writing and composition. Subsequently, two music intervention studies were conducted with young offenders at HM Young Offenders Institution Polmont. The first study was a ten-week project with three participant groups: a music group, an art group and a control group. Pre- and post-interviews and measures were used to assess participants’ self-esteem, self-control, behaviour, literacy skills and engagement with education. Numerous difficulties were identified with conducting such research in a prison environment, including the recruitment process and using standard assessment measures. However, results from the small number of men involved showed!an increase in engagement with education for all three groups during the project and a steady continued increase in education engagement for the music group after the project ended. Additionally, the music and art groups showed a small increase in mean scores for self-esteem, positive emotions reported and self-control. The second study examined two music interventions with young offenders as part of the year-long Inspiring Change pilot project. This study used interviews and session review forms with education staff and arts practitioners to document the process of the organisations involved in the planning and implementation of the projects. Focus groups with young offenders were carried out to gather their opinions of the programmes. Participants expressed that they especially appreciated the high level of professionalism of the arts practitioners, working as a group, and being recognised as making an individual contribution towards a final project. In addition to the survey and intervention studies, a Knowledge Exchange workshop was designed for music tutors in Scottish prisons to meet, learn about research on music in prisons, and exchange ideas for best practice. A workbook and afternoon workshop format was investigated in terms of its effectiveness and was found to be beneficial for music tutors in learning more about the research and practice of teaching music in prisons. This thesis contributes to the developing research on the benefits of music provision for prisoners and provides a baseline of music provision in Scottish prisons for further study.

Orientador: Maria do Carmo Martins / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T20:05:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gomes_PriscilaRibeiro_D.pdf: 10758070 bytes, checksum: af7955e6d986b58e809c770fdabf7627 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: O presente trabalho foi realizado numa escola prisional feminina no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, buscando por meio das memórias escolares escritas pelas presas e, algumas atividades expressivas da escola, como os murais produzidos por elas no ano de 2012, compreender os sentidos da escolarização bem como outras questões relacionadas à aprendizagem. Inspirada nos trabalhos de Ivor Goodson (2007; 2011), passei a refletir que para ocorrer mudanças no campo da aprendizagem era importante a vinculação dos conteúdos da aprendizagem a uma possibilidade de mudança significativa na vida das presas, não sendo suficiente apenas escrever novas prescrições ou matrizes curriculares. Buscando aprofundar o assunto, o estudo procurou assentar-se na metodologia da pedagogia narrativa, na tentativa de compreender os sentidos e significados produzidos na experiência escolar. Dessa forma passou a ser importante compreender o processo de escolarização como fortalecimento da autonomia do sujeito, no sentido de empoderamento, de maneira que a aprendizagem resultasse em um fortalecimento de si mesmo. / Abstract: This study was conducted in a school female prison in the state of Rio de Janeiro, seeking through school memories written by prey and some expressive activities of the school, such as the murals produced by them in the year 2012, to understand the meanings of schooling and other issues related to learning. Inspired by the work of Ivor Goodson (2007, 2011), I began to reflect that changes occur in the field of learning was important to link the content of learning a possibility of significant change in the lives of prisoners, it is not enough just to write new prescriptions or curricular. Seeking to deepen the subject, the study sought to rely on the methodology of narrative pedagogy in an attempt to understand the meanings produced in the school experience. Thus became important to understand the process of schooling as strengthening the autonomy of the subject, in the sense of empowerment, so that learning resulted in a strengthening of himself. / Doutorado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Doutora em Educação

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This paper shows that while incarceration is associated with economic losses, the economic benefits associated with a GED may be nearly twice as large for high school dropouts that have been incarcerated than for dropouts who have not been incarcerated. My results, though imprecisely estimated, suggest that this relationship may be one of correlation, rather than causality. I find that among the formerly incarcerated the GED is associated with other positive outcomes, particularly lower rates of drug use.

With over 1.5 million adults incarcerated each day in the United States, the development of successful criminal rehabilitation has now become imperative (Public Safety Performance Project, 2010). Higher education has emerged as a potential ‘solution’, with many undergraduate programmes for prisoners boasting lower rates of recidivism than any other rehabilitative programming available. This doctoral research is a mixed methods investigation of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, an undergraduate degree programme operating at a maximum-security correctional facility in the New York State. While most work in the field of prison education asks whether or not participation reduces recidivism, my research set out to discover how students engage with the processes of education – how they use the tools offered by membership in the social world of the prison college to reframe their understanding of their own experiences, what it means for their identities to be college students in the larger context of the prison, and how education changes their day-to-day lives and their plans for the future. My understanding is informed primarily by student writing data, generated through the facilitation of autobiographical writing workshops with two groups of men from the programme. Over the course of two ten-week sessions, students in these workshops constructed narratives describing their experiences in education both before and during their prison terms. These narratives define education as experiences of learning – allowing for inclusion of those lessons taught by the family unit and/or “in the street” – rather than just those activities involving school. The workshop process allowed me to build and maintain a significant degree of participant trust, as well as to ask for more clarification and detail as necessary in order to build a rich and thorough understanding of their stories and experiences. This understanding was also supported by six months’ worth of ethnographic and participant observation data, and a quantitative profile of every student Hudson Link has served during its twelve years in operation. Data analysis using a cultural-historical framework reveals that these students make sense of their lives using tools offered to them by the figured world of the prison college. Reinterpreting past experiences allows them to come to terms with their lives before prison. Identity reconstruction is achieved through guided authoring of personal change narratives, incorporation of education into the sense of self, and discoursal practices of academic English. These constructions of identity are used to reclaim the sense of agency that prison is designed to take away, which in turn influences student and graduate behaviour.

This thesis situates the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program within the larger realm of postsecondary prison education to analyze its unique pedagogical approach. Through utilizing critical theory and other pedagogical theories, I will address several key themes in the Inside-Out Pedagogy including 1) humanization 2) dialogue 3) mutuality, and the way these frames and tools are used to approach questions of identity, criminality, and power dynamics within the classroom. In providing both benefits and limitations of the Inside-Out program’s efforts to facilitate dialogue across difference, I argue that Inside-Out moves beyond prison education frameworks rooted in recidivist and neoliberal paradigms and instead fosters opportunities based on empathy, critical thinking, and holistic growth and transformation. I also argue that some of the projects and frameworks of transformation, equality, and humanization are oversimplified. Overall, I argue in favor of college-in-prison programs like Inside-Out that can supplement pre-existing postsecondary prison education programs.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este trabalho é resultado de uma pesquisa realizada com sujeitos jovens e adultos privados de liberdade, reincidentes, com pelo menos metade da pena cumprida na Penitenciária de Benguela/Angola. Teve como foco a compreensão do sentido atribuído por esses sujeitos à experiência de ser preso reincidente, percebendo como experienciam o programa de reeducação do sistema prisional local. Os fundamentos teóricos da investigação basearam-se em autores que discutem a realidade da prisão; o direito à educação de pessoas em espaços de privação de liberdade; e a situação histórica de Angola, marcada pela longa guerra civil, após a Independência que a livrou do colonialismo do governo português, por tantos anos. Autores angolanos contribuíram para o desvelamento dessa condição histórica, e vários brasileiros foram fundamentais para compreender a temática relativa à prisão. O tema tornou-se relevante entre pesquisadores na academia brasileira, provocados em grande parte por acordos internacionais sobre direitos humanos e, especialmente, sobre o direito à educação de pessoas jovens e adultas em espaços de privação de liberdade. O balizamento brasileiro e internacional serviu para avaliar como o Estado angolano se porta diante desse direito, e de que forma atende (ou não) o preceituado nas prisões angolanas, sendo signatário de acordos internacionais. A investigação pode ser considerada um estudo de caso qualitativo, cuja recolha de informações utilizou observação, entrevistas e questionários que geraram dados quantitativos. Estes resultaram de questionários aplicados a dez reeducadores dos serviços prisionais e a 26 reclusos reincidentes, entre os quais 23 do sexo masculino e três do sexo feminino, todos não identificados. As entrevistas realizadas se fizeram desde o diretor da instituição penal ao responsável provincial da reeducação; ouviram o responsável pela área de segurança do presídio, um advogado de presos e a mãe de um dos reclusos reincidentes. Problemas de ordem política, econômica, social, assim como o fator guerra que acompanhou toda a história de Angola (1975-2002) contribuíram, em grande parte, para que os sujeitos especialmente jovens cometessem delitos e sofressem a privação da liberdade. No dizer dos sujeitos, a expectativa de mudança de vida se põe na volta à escola e no aprendizado de uma profissão no que depositam esperanças de que a cadeia possa contribuir, para que a sociedade os discrimine menos, porque egressos do sistema penitenciário de Angola. / This work results from research carried out with young and adult subjects deprived of their freedom and recidivists, having completed at least half of their sentence at the Benguela Penitentiary in Angola. It focuses on the understanding of meanings assigned by such subjects to their experience as recidivist prisoners, and its purpose is to capture their feelings about the local prison system re-education program. The theoretical foundations of the investigation was based on the ideas put forward by a selected number of authors involving the day-to-day reality of that prison, the right to education that should be granted to people in places where they are deprived of their freedom, and the historical background of Angola, a country marked by a long civil war following the independence which freed it from the many years of Portuguese colonialism. Some Angolan authors have contributed to unveiling this historical process, together with several Brazilian authors, who have made significant contributions to the understanding of the prison issue. The relevance of this theme for researchers in the Brazilian academic world was largely provoked by their sensibility to international agreements on human rights, particularly those related to the right to education of confined young and adult persons. This Brazilian and international support was an important factor in the assessment of the Angolan States behavior in relation to this right and to its positive (or negative) response to the principles upheld by the prisons in Angola, considering that Angola is a subscriber to international agreements. The investigation can be viewed as a qualitative case study which includes observation, interviews and questionnaires as well as data gathering strategies, in order to obtain quantitative data. The questionnaires were applied to 10 re-educators acting within the prison and 26 recidivist prisoners, 23 of which are male and 3 female, all of them anonymous. The interviews covered a large spectrum, from the director of the penal institution to the person responsible for education in the province. Others who were heard are the person responsible for the prison security area, a prisoners lawyer and the mother of one of the recidivist prisoners. Problems of a political, economic and social nature, as well as the war, which was present throughout the history of Angola (1975-2002), have been a strong motivation for the subjects, particularly the young ones, to indulge themselves in criminal actions, resulting in the deprivation of their freedom. As the subjects say, their hope for change is placed on their return to school as well as on vocational training. They also expect that the jail itself will help to reduce social discrimination against ex-prisoners

The main goal of post-secondary prison education programs is to increase the education level of prisoners and improve their chances of success upon release. However, in order to accomplish this goal of success after release, prisoners must first participate in the education programs. This is especially crucial for female prisoners, many of whom enter prison more socially, economically, and educationally disadvantaged than male prisoners. This analysis aims to determine whether there is a difference is male and female participation in post-secondary prison education programs. In addition, this analysis also aims to determine what factors make male and female inmates more likely to participate in post-secondary prison education programs. The results demonstrate that sex alone is not a significant predictor for participation in post-secondary prison education. However, when combined with other factors sex does become a significant predictor of participation. Factors that are significant predictors of participation for both males and females include previous education, income prior to incarceration, receiving visits from children, time served on the current sentence, participation in a racial or ethnic group, participation in parenting classes, and participation in life skills or community adjustment programs.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Este trabalho é resultado de uma pesquisa realizada com sujeitos jovens e adultos privados de liberdade, reincidentes, com pelo menos metade da pena cumprida na Penitenciária de Benguela/Angola. Teve como foco a compreensão do sentido atribuído por esses sujeitos à experiência de ser preso reincidente, percebendo como experienciam o programa de reeducação do sistema prisional local. Os fundamentos teóricos da investigação basearam-se em autores que discutem a realidade da prisão; o direito à educação de pessoas em espaços de privação de liberdade; e a situação histórica de Angola, marcada pela longa guerra civil, após a Independência que a livrou do colonialismo do governo português, por tantos anos. Autores angolanos contribuíram para o desvelamento dessa condição histórica, e vários brasileiros foram fundamentais para compreender a temática relativa à prisão. O tema tornou-se relevante entre pesquisadores na academia brasileira, provocados em grande parte por acordos internacionais sobre direitos humanos e, especialmente, sobre o direito à educação de pessoas jovens e adultas em espaços de privação de liberdade. O balizamento brasileiro e internacional serviu para avaliar como o Estado angolano se porta diante desse direito, e de que forma atende (ou não) o preceituado nas prisões angolanas, sendo signatário de acordos internacionais. A investigação pode ser considerada um estudo de caso qualitativo, cuja recolha de informações utilizou observação, entrevistas e questionários que geraram dados quantitativos. Estes resultaram de questionários aplicados a dez reeducadores dos serviços prisionais e a 26 reclusos reincidentes, entre os quais 23 do sexo masculino e três do sexo feminino, todos não identificados. As entrevistas realizadas se fizeram desde o diretor da instituição penal ao responsável provincial da reeducação; ouviram o responsável pela área de segurança do presídio, um advogado de presos e a mãe de um dos reclusos reincidentes. Problemas de ordem política, econômica, social, assim como o fator guerra que acompanhou toda a história de Angola (1975-2002) contribuíram, em grande parte, para que os sujeitos especialmente jovens cometessem delitos e sofressem a privação da liberdade. No dizer dos sujeitos, a expectativa de mudança de vida se põe na volta à escola e no aprendizado de uma profissão no que depositam esperanças de que a cadeia possa contribuir, para que a sociedade os discrimine menos, porque egressos do sistema penitenciário de Angola. / This work results from research carried out with young and adult subjects deprived of their freedom and recidivists, having completed at least half of their sentence at the Benguela Penitentiary in Angola. It focuses on the understanding of meanings assigned by such subjects to their experience as recidivist prisoners, and its purpose is to capture their feelings about the local prison system re-education program. The theoretical foundations of the investigation was based on the ideas put forward by a selected number of authors involving the day-to-day reality of that prison, the right to education that should be granted to people in places where they are deprived of their freedom, and the historical background of Angola, a country marked by a long civil war following the independence which freed it from the many years of Portuguese colonialism. Some Angolan authors have contributed to unveiling this historical process, together with several Brazilian authors, who have made significant contributions to the understanding of the prison issue. The relevance of this theme for researchers in the Brazilian academic world was largely provoked by their sensibility to international agreements on human rights, particularly those related to the right to education of confined young and adult persons. This Brazilian and international support was an important factor in the assessment of the Angolan States behavior in relation to this right and to its positive (or negative) response to the principles upheld by the prisons in Angola, considering that Angola is a subscriber to international agreements. The investigation can be viewed as a qualitative case study which includes observation, interviews and questionnaires as well as data gathering strategies, in order to obtain quantitative data. The questionnaires were applied to 10 re-educators acting within the prison and 26 recidivist prisoners, 23 of which are male and 3 female, all of them anonymous. The interviews covered a large spectrum, from the director of the penal institution to the person responsible for education in the province. Others who were heard are the person responsible for the prison security area, a prisoners lawyer and the mother of one of the recidivist prisoners. Problems of a political, economic and social nature, as well as the war, which was present throughout the history of Angola (1975-2002), have been a strong motivation for the subjects, particularly the young ones, to indulge themselves in criminal actions, resulting in the deprivation of their freedom. As the subjects say, their hope for change is placed on their return to school as well as on vocational training. They also expect that the jail itself will help to reduce social discrimination against ex-prisoners