• Ms. Sarik Ankitha
• Rachitha P. Cabral

Prisoners are a group of people often forgotten or ignored by society as a whole. Yet recidivism – reoffending – is a serious drain on resources worldwide, and tackling it has been the subject of much research and policy development. Education in secure environments and beyond helps offenders reduces recidivism and improves employability. Here, we talk about Prison inmates who receive general education and vocational training are significantly less likely to return to prison after release and are more likely to find employment than peers who do not receive such skill development programmes. Good communication skills for offenders returning to the community are central to new and successful lives and new chances. Effective speaking and listening skills are essential to entering and sustaining work. Prison Officials identify skills imbibed among the inmates and trained them according to their level of efficiency. The opportunity to work offers opportunity for change. This not only supports the offender but their families and the community at large. However, improving skills may rank highly on the offender’s priority list. Offenders need to realise that such skills are a vital part of resettlement and considerably improve job opportunities and re adjustment to the society. Talking to and collaborating with colleagues on work-related activities using appropriate and polite language, taking instructions and messages and passing them on to colleagues, and Contributing to meetings, training sessions and reviews helps in the overall progress of the inmates. Overall, the paper talks about having a learning culture in a prison, with a whole-prison approach to learning.. Training programmes should be part of a sentence plan and properly sequenced and structured with other interventions across a sentence and the plan should properly follow prisoners when they move. These approaches need to be coupled with a culture change about offender learning with employers, and a culture change in society as a whole. Offender learning should be about values rather than about costs. Prison education needs to be inspiring and motivational and must provide links to employment and ‘real life’ on release. With increasing emphasis on giving prison governors autonomy over their operations and budgets, it will be important to insure good governance of education in prisons. This article develops the idea that skills-based approach to education and training, successful in institutions, could be of considerable use in prisons. The release from prison of appropriately educated offenders should not only reduce re-offending rates, but also help to close the ‘skills’ gap’ in India.

Prison, Education, Inclusiveness, Correctional Centres, Rehabilitation, Reformation, Training Programme

"Correctional Education and Training Programme in Prisons", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.340-349, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907805.pdf

"Correctional Education and Training Programme in Prisons", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp340-349, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907805.pdf