The use of career-based adult basic education to achieve rehabilitation in persons in correctional insitutions is discussed in this report. This program, based on a model design developed by corrections personnel, is a cooperative effort in teacher training, experimentation, demonstration, operation, and evaluation. Goals are defined, the model is…

The Adult Basic Education in Corrections Program discussed in this paper is a model for redirection in corrections; it is an acknowledgement of the need to provide educational programs to meet the special needs of adult offenders. Three outcomes have been realized from the program thus far: analysis of the situation, synthesis of a conceptual…