Correctional Industries: Background, Planning and Development Guide for Inmates with Mental Retardation. Draft final report
Publication year:
1992
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Written primarily for human services administrators and specialists, this guide presents a general process for developing or expanding correctional industry programs for inmates that are mentally handicapped. Major sections of the guide include: legal and legislative issues, which cover pertinent legal and statutory regulations governing correctional industries; model services that describe the major components of model services programs geared for the mentally handicapped inmate; operative programs that present overviews of five programs serving this population; and planning and development, which identifies and discusses key decisions and stages in initiating correctional industry programs for mentally handicapped inmates.