The document discusses the relationship between education and the retention of formerly incarcerated individuals. It proposes that vocational education is best for helping the formerly incarcerated reintegrate into society and find gainful employment. Vocational programs, such as associate degrees, could help the formerly incarcerated develop skills to overcome barriers to employment like lack of work experience and criminal records. The document presents this idea as a hypothesis and outlines assumptions, limitations, and delimitations of studying the impact of vocational education on recidivism and job retention among the target population.

1. Capstone Project for CIED 5370
for Eberhardt
Frederick Eberhardt
CIED 5370

2. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATION AND THE RETENTION OF FORMERLY INCARCERATED INVIDUALS
 How to use education to improve the lives of those
formerly incarcerated.
 Vocational education is best.
 Some government grants go for college also.
 This can help ease financial trauma.

3. Abstract
ABSTRACT
 The idea of extending vocational education programs: such as; associate
degrees to those who have been formerly incarcerated requires careful
statistical analysis. For many years, Re-integration has been difficult for
certain populations affected by incarceration. Families of those
incarcerated often suffer financially, medically, and socially. The loss of
compensation and the damage to one’s career is significant for a one or
two breadwinner income. Often, people lose insurance and get fired after
incarceration. This goes on one’s record and is an impediment to future
employment. Criminal background checks complicate the process further
as employers scrutinize the files and often do not hire individuals on this
basis. Those individuals that are fortunate enough to get hired after
incarceration often are only able to make minimum wage in food service
or charity good will jobs.

4. Background
Vocational training is central to success in
retention programs and in society. After being
behind bars for so many years, it is difficult for
people to become re-integrated. So, after all
these years they return to normal life changed
and must be re-integrated with families and life
circumstances. Along with this goes the need to
belong and be gainfully employed. After
receiving care and direction in prison, people
must guide themselves. They must fit in with
society and follow its rules. They must self-
regulate and find employment. They must find
housing. Without access to credit and an
employment record it will be difficult to find jobs
and pay bills.
Crime can be alleviated with programs that
employ people for volunteering in federal
programs and they also learn job skills. They are
at a severe disadvantage to other job seekers.
High rates of unemployment are rampant. And
they need to work together and as a team at
work and school to make things work better. So,
the study is about trying to figure out ways to re-
integrate the recently incarcerated into school
and the general workforce.

5. DEFINITION OF TERMS
 RETENTION-Being able to stay in society, live, work, pay expenses and get along with others and
housemates.
 RECIBIDIVISM-Being unable to cope with living in society, committing crimes and going back to
prison.
 GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT-Full-time lifelong employment with a career focus, specialization and work
experience.
 Vocational education-Career-based and focused education, with practical outcomes and benchmarks
in sight.
 CAREER EDUCATION—with a specific career goal in mind, not theoretical.
 COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION—two year degree.
 LIMITATIONS-Not serious offenders ages, 25-49.
 DELIMITATIONS- Not general population at - large.
 ASSUMPTIONS- Not serious offenders.
 TRUTHFULNESS AND ETHICS- Good risks for employment.

6. STATEMENT OF
PROBLEM
 The centerpiece of the study is the
necessity to address issues of access
to literacy, education,
 Social Service and job training for
those recently released from prison.
They need a network of resources to
be productive and to learn and grow in
their chosen profession. It is not
enough to release them; the resources
have to be in place to keep them from
having to return to jail.

7. HYPOTHESIS
 Support groups for every kind of addiction exist. Former offenders need to be
able to access
 these resources in order to flourish in society. Theoretically, when someone
embezzles, they cannot handles money anymore. Or, someone who is a
pedophile would not be allowed to work with kids. But, there are so many
people who want work today, that arguably people would not hire someone
with a criminal record. Even after having it expunged, there are still instances
where a criminal background check would not uncover it.
 So, the theory of diverting workers into areas where they would be safer for
the company probably doesn’t work because all it does eventually is hinder
your chances for advancement and make sure that you stay entry level or
reduce chances to earn benefits. However, there are government programs
being developed with the increasing level of offenders returning to work, that
are gaining popularity and are becoming successful at life skills and other
skills that they need to be retained in society.

8. Assumptions
 All the people in the study were previously
incarcerated.
 They are ages 18-46.
 They are men and women, all races and all in
vocational education programs.
 A few are studying for college degrees.

9. Limitations
 The weakness of the study is that there are people
in the ages between 18-46.
 No one is surveying juveniles or geriatric
populations in this study.
 It is limited to those who are capable of gainful
employment.

10. Delimitations
 Those people included in the study were
misdemeanor crimes only and light criminal
behavior.
 Mainly white collar crimes.
 Nothing with felonies or murders.
 Something perhaps drug related would be okay for
the purpose of the study.

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