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The California Ex-Offender in Transition

The California Ex-Offender in Transition TRANSITIONS Can ABE/GED Programs Help? Leuiey Ann FelminghamBirdiong ccording to the Center on Juvenile and from Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome. This condition is Criminal Justice (1991), the California often compounded by day-today battles with drug and A Department of Corrections has over alcohol abuse and lack of steady income. Many will lob,000 prisoners incarcerated-not be homeless. including inmates housed in county jails or in half-way Mtional burdens are (1) society’s non-acceptance houses or othewise connected to the Justice System of “criminals” and (2) the strain of reconnecting with (for instance, on probation or parole). Most prisoners family, friends, and loved ones. Many will return to the will return to society but, sadly for both society and for same conditions they left when they entered prison. them, they will return as illiterate as when they were Racism and the inadequacies of uhan school systems incarcerated. are also characteristics of these leamer‘s backgrounds. The “average” prisoner is barely able to red, yet only Not all undereducated offenders suffer from low self- one in twelve inmates receives academic or vocational esteem, or inappropriate values learned in the home. instruction. Further, 70 percent of the prisoners will be But for many these are important http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Adult Learning SAGE

The California Ex-Offender in Transition

Adult Learning , Volume 4 (5): 2 – May 1, 1993

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SAGE
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© 1993 American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
ISSN
1045-1595
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2162-4070
DOI
10.1177/104515959300400511
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Abstract

TRANSITIONS Can ABE/GED Programs Help? Leuiey Ann FelminghamBirdiong ccording to the Center on Juvenile and from Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome. This condition is Criminal Justice (1991), the California often compounded by day-today battles with drug and A Department of Corrections has over alcohol abuse and lack of steady income. Many will lob,000 prisoners incarcerated-not be homeless. including inmates housed in county jails or in half-way Mtional burdens are (1) society’s non-acceptance houses or othewise connected to the Justice System of “criminals” and (2) the strain of reconnecting with (for instance, on probation or parole). Most prisoners family, friends, and loved ones. Many will return to the will return to society but, sadly for both society and for same conditions they left when they entered prison. them, they will return as illiterate as when they were Racism and the inadequacies of uhan school systems incarcerated. are also characteristics of these leamer‘s backgrounds. The “average” prisoner is barely able to red, yet only Not all undereducated offenders suffer from low self- one in twelve inmates receives academic or vocational esteem, or inappropriate values learned in the home. instruction. Further, 70 percent of the prisoners will be But for many these are important

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Published: May 1, 1993

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