Criminal Justice and Adult Education Resources
Resources: Books, Reports, Toolkits, Guides, Other Online Resources
This list of resources was compiled by the Open Door Collective Criminal Justice Reform Issues Group. Compilers of the list were Margaret Becker Patterson, PhD, Vienna, VA, and Janet Isserlis, MA, Providence, RI.
Resource Name (Year)
Arts in Prison: Lessons from the United Kingdom (2011)
Best and Promising Practices in Integrating Reentry and Employment Interventions (2018) Beyond Prison (2018) Correctional Education Association Resources Correctional Service Canada CURE National Economic Perspectives on Incarceration and the Criminal Justice System (2016) ESOL Tutor Resource Pack The Fortune Society Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs and Prisons (2018) The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration (2010) Justice Center Council of State Governments LINCS Correctional Education Resources National Archive of Criminal Justice Data National Center on Education, Disabilities, and Juvenile Justice (2015) National Center on Institutions and Alternatives National Criminal Justice Reference Service The Prison Arts Coalition (2012) Prisons Foundation Returning to Work After Prison (2012) The Second Chance Act (2008) Transforming Prisons Restoring Lives: Final Recommendations of the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections (2016) University Beyond Bars What Works in Reentry Clearinghouse Women’s Mass Incarceration (2017) Women’s Prison Association |
Description
This report “offers lessons from arts in criminal justice. Designed as a practitioner guide, this work draws on perspectives from arts practitioners, program participants, and staff at secure facilities”
“This webinar is based on lessons learned from integrating reentry and employment interventions to help people returning home after incarceration find and keep employment. The presentation is especially useful for corrections, reentry, and workforce development administrators and practitioners that are interested in maximizing scarce resources and improving recidivism and employment outcomes.” A “collection of documentary stories explores innovative approaches to rehabilitation and offers a new vision of what prison could be” CEA publishes “scientific and historical research to build a body of specific best practices in correctional education” The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) is the “federal government agency responsible for administering sentences of a term of two years or more, as imposed by the courts” Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE) is a “grassroots organization that was founded in Texas in 1972” – CURE National is based in Washington DC In this report, the authors “first examine historical growth in criminal justice enforcement and incarceration along with its causes. They then develop a general framework for evaluating criminal justice policy, weighing its crime-reducing benefits against its direct government costs and indirect costs for individuals, families, and communities” The resources in this toolkit for teachers of adults in prisons and re-entry settings “combine language learning with embedded wider capabilities in numeracy, digital, health, financial and civic (including elements of personal and social development), designed to make learning engaging and relevant to life in prison and in the community”. The Fortune Society is a New York not-for-profit community-based organization “dedicated to educating the public about prisons, criminal justice issues, and the root causes of crime” This video focuses on “decriminalizing trauma” and solutions that one local organization has enacted for reducing recidivism. This report calculates that “a reduction by one-half in the incarceration rate of non-violent offenders would lower correctional expenditures by $16.9 billion per year” The Council of State Governments Justice Center “provides practical, nonpartisan, research-driven strategies and tools to increase public safety and strengthen communities” Materials “addressing working with adults in prisons, jails, community, and juvenile settings; program planning and career counseling for adults in re-entry programs; and designing instruction and program services for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated adults” Source for data on crime and justice EDJJ “examined the overrepresentation of youth with disabilities at-risk for contact with the courts or already involved in the juvenile delinquency system. They provide an archive of professional development, technical assistance, research and resources” The National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA) takes “an innovative approach to break the destructive cycle often associated with the human service and correctional systems. We provide individual care, concern, and treatment for intellectual and emotionally disabled youth and adults, and those involved in the criminal justice system” Justice and drug-related information “to support research, policy, and program development worldwide” The Prison Arts Coalition is a “national network providing information and resources for people creating art in and around the American prison system” Prisons Foundation is a “non-profit seeking a more creative and fulfilling world for both incarcerated and free citizens “ Final findings from a major evaluation of the multi-year “Transitional Jobs Reentry Demonstration” project funded by the Joyce Foundation Federal legislation “designed to ensure the safe and successful return of prisoners to the community” “Informed by over a year of fact-finding, rigorous data analysis, and discussions with key experts and stakeholders, the independent Task Force’s recommendations to the US Congress, the President, and the Attorney General provide a blueprint for reforms to the federal corrections system” This Washington state non-profit seeks to “replace incarceration with education and to build a society where all people are given the chance to transform themselves and their communities” A “one-stop shop” for research on the “effectiveness of a wide variety of reentry programs and practices”, including education A recent report on women in the criminal justice system “WPA works with women at all stages of criminal justice involvement. We promote alternatives to incarceration and help women living in the community to avoid arrest or incarceration by making positive changes in their lives. Inside prison and jail, we are a source of support to women and a resource to them as they plan for release. After incarceration, women come to WPA for help to build the lives they want for themselves and their families in the community” |
Source
Becky Mer
National Re-entry Resource Center Kalliopeia Foundation CEA Government of Canada CURE Executive Office of the President of the United States The Bell Foundation The Fortune Society Brave New Films Center for Economic and Policy Research Council of State Governments USDOE, OCTAE U. of Michigan Institute for Social Research EDJJ NCIA U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs Prison Arts Coalition Prisons Foundation MDRC National Reentry Resource Center Urban Institute University Beyond Bars Council of State Governments ACLU and Prison Policy Initiative Women’s Prison Association |