Prisoner education and employment

• Australia
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Canada

Australia

• Reducing recidivism through vocational education and training programs
  Australian Institute of Criminology, 2008
• Vocational education and training for adult prisoners and offenders in Australia: Research readings
  Susan Dawe. National Centre for Vocational Education Research, 2007
• National evaluation of the Prisoners and their Families Program
  Debbie King, Success Works Pty Ltd, 2005. Parenting eduction program for prisoners, funded under the Australian Government's National Crime Prevention Program
• Attitudes of employers, corrective services workers, employment support workers, and prisoners and offenders towards employing ex-prisoners and ex-offenders
  Joe Graffam, Alison Shinkfield, Barbara Lavelle and Lesley Hardcastle. Criminology Research Council report, 2004
• The development of a learning culture in a youth detention centre and its effect on staff and clients
  Satch Campbell and Frank Duggan, 2003
• Adult education in WA prisons : an overview of the past 100 years (PDF 1.02MB)
  Western Australia Department of Justice, 2002
• ANTA Innovative Grants in Adult Literacy at the Girrawaa Creative Works Centre
  Kinga Macpherson, Frank Saunders and Ian Kennedy, 2001
• Can't wait to get out and drive past the cops! This time I'll have a licence. Pre-release programs in NSW correctional centres : driver education at Mannus
  Allison Jones and Deirdre Hyslop, 2001
• Cultural program initiative
  Pat Maurer, 2001
• Education provided by TAFE NSW Western Institute to the Indigenous population in the correctional centres
  Janice Navin and Ian Kennedy, 2001
• Inmate women as participants in education in Queensland corrections centres
  Susan Danby, Ann Farrell, Petra Skoien and Carol Quadrelli, 2000
• Inside and out : the Karnet training project - reducing the risk factors in local communities
  Raymond Chavez, 2000
• Operation Challenge
  Kerry Paschke and Kelly Freeke, 2000
• Girrawaa creative work centre, Bathurst cultural program
  Joanne Selfe, 1999
• Values students : valued education
  Pat Hodgens, 1999
• Vocational education and training in Northern Territory correctional centres
  Christine Fitzgerald and Chris Manners, 1999

United Kingdom

• Offender learning and skills
  Department for Education and Skills.
• Joining the Dots | Anne Peaker Centre | Arts on the Out
  UK organisations supporting the development of the arts within criminal justice settings
• Offending and employment in greater London (Microsoft Word 37kB)
  Mark Liddle, Mick Feloy and Aikta-Reena Solanki. NACRO research report, 2000
• Working their way out of offending : an evaluation of two probation employment schemes (PDF 311kB)
  Chris Sarno, Ian Hearnden, Carol Hedderman, Michael Hough, Claire Nee and Victoria Herrington. Home Office, 2000
• Addressing the literacy needs of offenders under probation supervision (PDF 432kB)
  Gwynn Davis, Brian Caddick, Kate Lyon, Liz Doling, Julia Hasler, Alec Webster, Malcolm Reed and Karen Ford. Home Office, 1997

United States

• Systematic review of non-custodial employment programs : impact on recidivism rates of ex-offenders (PDF 223kB)
  Christy A Visher, Laura Winterfield and Mark B Coggeshall, 2006
• Changing lives through literature
  Alternative sentencing program

Canada

• Inmate education
  John Howard Society of Alberta, 2002
• Inmate industries
  John Howard Society of Alberta, 2002