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From the Classroom to the Community: Exploring the Role of Education during Incarceration and Reentry

This monograph examines the “current state of education during education and reentry and identifie[s] promising programmatic and policy directions” (p. 3). Parts contained in this publication include: introduction-education, reincarceration, and reentry; the current landscape of education during incarceration and reentry; research on the effectiveness of correctional education; education behind the walls-challenges and opportunities; from classroom to community-education and reentry.