NCJ Number
114611
Journal
Journal of Correctional Education Volume: 39 Issue: 4 Dated: (December 1988) Pages: 154-159
Date Published
1988
Length
6 pages
Annotation
Perhaps the greatest challenge facing correctional educators and administrators is providing an appropriate education to all adjudicated delinquents and incarcerated adults.
Abstract
An appropriate education for each handicapped student between the ages of 3-21 years is mandated by Federal legislation, Public Law 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975. These educational services, including special education, must be provided in State-supported schools, which include facilities for adjudicated and incarcerated delinquents as well as adults. The New Mexico Boys' School is a State-supported school providing habilitation, training, education, and related services to approximately 250 adjudicated delinquents from throughout the State of New Mexico. The purpose of this article is to provide a description of the continuum of education services which has been designed and implemented to meet the needs of juvenile delinquents committed to a correctional facility. By describing this continuum of education programs, correctional education administrators in other facilities will be able to identify a model proven successful in diagnosing, placing and providing appropriate educational services to juvenile delinquents in a correctional facility. (Author abstract)