Correctional Education Association 4380 Forbes Blvd. Lanham, MD 20706 (800) 783-1232 (301) 918-1846 (fax) http://www.ceanational.org This site is a comprehensive collection of resources for basic skills and literacy programs in correctional education. Through this single access point, instructors, administrators, and adult learners can find activities and links exclusively related to correctional education. Those interested in correctional education can find learning activities, share program administration techniques, join a discussion list, read news about the field, and find links to key correctional education sites. Click here to search for literacy resources.

Helping women break the prison cycle by Netta S. Eisler For many prison inmates, there's something much harder than prison life--life on the outside. Many of those behind bars are repeat offenders who have never learned how to be successful outside of prison. Beth Pessner, Virginia Tech Powhatan/Goochland Extension agent, decided to help women prisoners break the cycle of repeated arrests by teaching skills to help them succeed in the community. The key, she says, is giving them the knowledge ...

Prisons As Education Institutions A Model For Education Innovation Introduction Data provided by the National Adult Literacy Survey show that two-thirds of prison inmates are at the lowest levels of literacy. If the current trend toward higher prison rates continues, there will soon be more people in prison than in four-year colleges. It is chilling to think of a society that fills its prisons with uneducated (mostly young) men and women and fails to see the connection between good education ...