Correctional Programs:

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This paper examines through review of published literature the rising crime rates and the apparent failure of correctional programs to decrease recidivism rates, resulting in many cases in less support for such programs. The commonly used goal of reduced recidivism is questioned as a realistics objective for a prison program. Offenders as a group have severe employment problems partly caused by their lack of education and vocational skills. It is concluded that the case for education and training opportunities for incarcerated offenders rests mainly on essentially the same considerations which support education and training in the free world: contribution to self-support and socially acceptable life-styles. In addition, the positive use of an offender's time during incarceration is considered by itself enough justification for continuation of a program. The alternarive would be warehousing.

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