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  2. Prison-to-college programs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Inmates at Hillsborough County Juvenile Detention Centre in 2020. Prison-to-college programs exist around the world, providing opportunities for higher education to current and formerly incarcerated individuals in efforts to increase employment opportunities and reduce post-release recidivism rates. [1]

  3. Prison education - Wikipedia

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    A prison literacy class for African Americans in New Orleans, 1937. In the United States, prisoners were given religious instruction by chaplains in the early 19th century, and secular prison education programmes were first developed in order to help inmates to read Bibles and other religious texts.

  4. Correctional Education Association - Wikipedia

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    The CEA provides services to its members including: a peer-reviewed international journal, a quarterly newsletter, annual membership and resource directory, an accreditation system for prison, jail, and juvenile school programs, a website and listserves for its special interest groups, and under-graduate and graduate online courses for educators.

  5. LSSU to offer new education options at area prisons - AOL

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    School officials said it's also shown that these programs can lead to better behaved inmates in the prisons. "'Recidivism is the percentage of inmates that returned to prison after release, and ...

  6. Youth detention center - Wikipedia

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    Harris County Juvenile Detention Center, Houston, Texas In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), [1] juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, or more colloquially as juvie/juvy or the Juvey Joint, also sometimes referred to as observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they ...

  7. Boot camp (correctional) - Wikipedia

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    The time served can range from 90 to 180 days, which can make up for prison sentences of up to 10 years. [54] Federal shock incarceration programs are authorized under 18 U.S.C. § 4046, although the placement requires consent of the prisoner. In 1995, the U.S. federal government and about two-thirds of the 50 states were operating boot camp ...

  8. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    The state’s sweeping privatization of its juvenile incarceration system has produced some of the worst re-offending rates in the nation. More than 40 percent of youth offenders sent to one of Florida’s juvenile prisons wind up arrested and convicted of another crime within a year of their release, according to state data.

  9. American juvenile justice system - Wikipedia

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    Harris County Juvenile Justice Center. The American juvenile justice system is the primary system used to handle minors who are convicted of criminal offenses. The system is composed of a federal and many separate state, territorial, and local jurisdictions, with states and the federal government sharing sovereign police power under the common authority of the United States Constitution.