Correctional rehabilitation: a survey of rehabilitation programs currently operating in United States correctional institutions

This study undertakes to survey and analyze rehabilitation programs currently being employed by correctional Institutions in the United States. Special attention is placed on early history and the importance ascribed to them by penologists, correctional administers, and laymen. The evaluation of these treatment programs is only in terms of the completeness of their applications. Time and space limitations dictate that only the major programs receive full consideration in this study, me rehabilitation programs, which have met the constructed criteria, are; (1) religious activities, {2) academic education, (3) vocational education, (4) correspondence courses, (5) the prison library, (6) recreation, and (7) social education. Minor programs receive consideration in chapter X. The appendix contains the material used in effecting the survey and summarizes the statistical results. Actual examples or re-education programs presently being offered in the nation's correctional institutions are utilized throughout this study. Exceptional programs are dealt with in detail. Reference materials are as current as possible and much of the writing Is based on the survey results. In relating to the reader the relative merits of the various rehabilitation programs, deliberate steps have been taken to refrain from placing values on their Individual effectiveness. It is, however, the opinion of researcher that the rehabilitation of inmates can best be accomplished by an integrated application of all the rehabilitation programs currently being employed in the nation’s correctional Institutions.