RT Article
T1 Reducing inmate misconduct and prison returns with facility education programs
JF Criminology & public policy
VO 16
IS 2
SP 515
OP 547
A1 Pompoco, Amanda
A1 Woolredge, John
A1 Lugo, Melissa
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/158388968X
AB Participants and nonparticipants in Ohio prison education programs were compared in rates of misconduct during incarceration and prison returns after release. Propensity score matching was used to compare male nonparticipants with males who completed or started but did not complete GEDs, vocational training/apprenticeship programs, and college classes (each education group examined separately). More than 92,000 males were eligible for study, reflecting all men admitted to Ohio prisons between January 2008 and June 2012. Inmates who earned GEDs or completed college classes were less likely than nonprogram inmates to engage in violence during incarceration, whereas completing vocational training and apprenticeship programs had no such effect on any type of inmate misconduct examined. On the other hand, completing vocational training and apprenticeship programs, GEDs, or college classes at any point during incarceration coincided with lower rates of prison returns within 3 years after release. None of these benefits accrued to inmates who started but did not complete these programs/classes.
K1 Prison education
K1 Programs
K1 Strafgefangene
K1 Berufsausbildung im Strafvollzug
K1 Berufsausbildung
K1 Programme
DO 10.1111/1745-9133.12290