NCJ Number
143604
Journal
Keepers' Voice Volume: 14 Issue: 2 Dated: (Spring 1993) Pages: 27-30
Date Published
1993
Length
4 pages
Annotation
The Ohio prison system currently operates 10 education units, that use a multidisciplinary approach to providing inmate programs and which use correctional officers as crucial members of the team effort to provide literacy and academic education to inmates.
Abstract
The work of Correctional Officer James Martin in the Fallen Timbers Literacy Unit exemplifies the program's operation. He works with teacher-coordinator Susan Blakely, and his work station is a computer laboratory. He and Blakely provide inmate tutors with guidance and reinforcement and work as a team in meeting the daily living and educational needs of the 137 inmates in the unit. Flexibility is important to the success of the program. In addition, under the unit management system, management, custody, treatment, and education staff all function as a team. Another correctional employee, William Smith, is part of the new education unit team being formed at the Southeastern Correctional Institute. This team will focus on combining GED, basic literacy, recovery services, and Chapter One into a multidisciplinary education unit. Correctional counselor Charles Scruggs has been part of the team at Mansfield Correctional Institute from its beginning. Unlike other teams, this team rotates all posts. These teams demonstrate how what began as a simple educational program at one institution has grown into a program that units all personnel into a cohesive team that recognizes the unique role of each participant. Photographs