NCJ Number
76555
Date Published
1980
Length
192 pages
Annotation
Four appendixes to a report assessing existing correctional personnel training programs and proposing models for future evaluations of such programs are presented.
Abstract
The first appendix presents reports of site visits to 17 corrections agencies throughout the United States. The sites include the California Parole and Community Services Division of the California Department of Corrections, the National Institute of Corrections Jail Center in Boulder, Colo; the Illinois Correctional Training Academy, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and others. For each site, a narrative report describes the agency background, training participants, teaching methods, and feedback and evaluation methods. Comments about each program are also presented. Another appendixes presents three interview guides used with program directors, trainers, and trainees. The guides contain questions concerning both the internal training process and the external forces that influence training. The third appendix presents the instrument used in a survey of 1,170 correctional agency directors. The correctional agencies included jails, prisons, parole and probation services, youth facilities, correctional training academies, and youth services. The questionnaires contained general questions about the agency, detailed questions about training courses felt to be very useful and less useful, and questions about a third training course. The final appendix presents data from the survey. For the other volumes of the full report, see NCJ 76552-54.