The rehabilitation process at the California Institution for Women at Frontera is discussed, especially in relation to the Chicana inmate. (NQ)

College courses seem to have the potential to change permanently the attitudes of some criminals. (Editor)

The basic supposition of this paper is that older prisoners possessing unique characteristics necessitate a specific program designed to meet their particular needs. The development of an experimental therapeutic program for such older prisoners is described. (Author)

Describes the Community Corrections Center - a minimum security area with a program consisting of six components: (1) orientation; (2) preemployment training; (3) nonprogram groups and services; (4) job development and placement; (5) placement follow-up-residential; and, (6) placement/program follow-up non-residential. (Author)

"Modern Methods of Criminal Rehabilitation" was the subject of a conference held in Chazy, New York. The institution dealt with was the Diagnostic and Treatment Center at Clinton Prison in New York. A movie "A New Way to Prepare for a New Life" presented an overview of the rehabilitation program for multiple offenders. A transcript of the film is…

A special project for aged, hospitalized mental patients, drawing on home economics skills in a team approach to rehabilitation, provides skills training leading to patients' increased capacity for self-care, helps patients transfer from the hospital to some form of community life, and provides follow-up services. (Author/AJ)

Research points to two major deficits in the juvenile offender: behavioral (minimal social adaptive skills) and educational (learning disabilities). A private hospitalization treatment program for adolescents is described which combines a behavioral and educational approach to the juvenile offender. A case study illustrates how a…

In this paper we offer an overview of reintegration policies in both Australia and New Zealand. We describe the rehabilitative practices of both countries, and their basis in the Risk-Needs-Responsivity model of offender rehabilitation, before outlining the recently developed Good Lives Model of offender rehabilitation. Our conclusion is that the…

The Managing Independent Living Program provides instruction in reasoning skills to analyze career and life planning, housing, and consumer needs of persons in transition. Although the program was implemented and tested with adult female offenders, it is readily adaptable to both institutionalized and noninstitutionalized persons and for secondary…