RT Article
T1 Analyzing for-profit colleges and universities that offer bachelors, masters, and doctorates to inmates incarcerated in American correctional facilities
JF Journal of offender rehabilitation
VO 54
IS 8
SP 585
OP 598
A1 Ross, Jeffrey Ian
A2 Tewksbury, Richard
A2 Zaldivar, Miguel
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1882182804
AB Postsecondary education for inmates is championed as an important path to rehabilitation and a factor minimizing recidivism. Over the past four decades, several for-profit colleges and universities have offered degree-based programs to inmates at American correctional facilities. This article reviews the history of these educational institutions, the typical inmates who enroll in these kinds of courses, the appeals that these businesses make to convicts, the channels for their advertisements, and the experiences of inmates who have enrolled and (sometimes) graduated from these courses. This study takes both an historical and an autoethnographic approach to its subject matter. The authors conclude by speculating on appropriate policy responses to for-profit postsecondary education institutions that provide this kind of service to inmates, and alternatives that may be better methods for college degree instruction and delivery in jails and prisons.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 596-598
K1 Correctional Programming
K1 postsecondary prison programs
K1 prison college programs
K1 prison education programs
K1 Rehabilitation
DO 10.1080/10509674.2015.1087442