Posts Tagged ‘life skills’
Financial Literacy is a Necessary Skill for Released Offenders
What are you doing at age 36? Or, what do you plan to do by age 36? Buy a house perhaps? Be climbing the corporate ladder in your career? Starting a family or getting your startup off the ground? Most people look forward to doing those things in their 30s, but for more than 33,000…
Read MorePrison Education Programs Must Keep Pace with the Changing World
Prison education programs work. That is a fact that has been backed up by numerous studies. For prison education to be truly effective, it must keep pace with the changing world. Thankfully, in many States, this is the case. For example, the Maryland Department of Corrections (MDC) now uses tablets for its inmate GED program.…
Read MoreSitting Pretty: Vocational Prison Education Preps for Life After Prison
By Christopher Zoukis Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, California has a beauty salon. It started as a vocational prison education program in 1996 when the facility was for women only. Although it’s a men’s prison now, the salon, and the esthetician program, remain in place. It’s a unique way of learning job skills in the…
Read MorePrison Education Continues with Released Prisoners
By Christopher Zoukis Let’s say you are new in town. A bus drops you off near the city. You are given $40, two weeks worth of your medication, and a change of clothes. Good luck. Now you are on your own. Doesn’t sound ideal does it? How are you going to get around? Find a…
Read MoreNorth Carolina Prisons Add Technology to Rehabilitation Toolbox
By Christopher Zoukis There are more than 37,000 inmates in 55 prison facilities in North Carolina. Each year, more than 20,000 inmates are released. In fact, 98% of the entire country’s inmates will be released at some point in the future. And increasingly, a wide variety of rehabilitative programs are being offered to ensure that…
Read MoreFrom Inmate to Inspiration: Man Helps Prisoners and Youth Turn Lives Around
By Christopher Zoukis John Valverde is living proof that second chances are possible, and that the criminal justice system needs to be about more than just punishment — it should focus on rehabilitation and facilitating successful re-entry for the legions of ex-offenders who will eventually rejoin their communities. Valverde this year becomes CEO of YouthBuild…
Read MoreRe-Entry Programs Ease Transition From Prison
By Christopher Zoukis More than 650,000 prisoners are released every year in the United States, and so it’s in everyone’s best interests that they are prepared as possible to reintegrate into society. Especially if they have been incarcerated for years, or even decades. Effective inmate re-entry programs go a long way to ease the transition.…
Read MoreYavapai Reentry Project
By Dianne Frazee-Walker The Yavapai Reentry Project, established in 2011, fulfills a critical need within the state prison system and the Prescott, Arizona area. The main objective of the program is to empower newly released inmates and create a safe environment for the communities they re-enter. The goal of human service non-profit organizations, government agencies,…
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