This study represents the combined efforts of three separate institutions (California Department of Education, the California Department of Corrections, and the California Advisory Council for Vocational Education and Technical Training) to obtain data for more responsible program planning. Research strategy was developed to elicit facilitating or inhibiting factors from a variety of sources: Literature on prison work or skill training; previous studies of California's institutional vocational training programs; and inmates, parolees, parole officers, employers, and institutional vocational training personnel. Chapters l through 4 of this report each set forth the knowledge and experience of a particular referent or group. To illustrate, the documentation for Chapter 3 was prepared from previous studies on, or related to, California's institutional vocational programs. Then views from these sources are summarized and commented upon in Chapter 5. Chapter 5 then provides the substance for the last chapter, (6) which describes a Vocational Education Model for Corrections and fifteen subproposals. References, additional reading or resources, and three appendixes (Inmate Survey Questionnaires; Parolee, Employer Parole Officer Questionnaire; Inventory-Program Planning Activities) are included. (HD)