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Adult Education Administrator's Manual

Instructional Services
Special Populations

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Programs for Corrections Education and Other Institutionalized Individuals

Section 225 of Workforce Investment Act (WIA) II - The adult education program in Texas provides literacy, English language proficiency for limited English proficient adults, basic academic and functional context skills, and secondary level proficiencies for incarcerated in a correctional facility and other institutionalized corrections adults and who function at less that a secondary completion level.

The term “correctional institution” means any:

• Prison
• Jail
• Reformatory
• Work Farm
• Detention center
• Halfway house, community-based rehabilitation center, or any other similar institution designed fro the confinement or rehabilitation of criminal offenders.

Approximately 75 percent of youth offenders are high school dropouts who lack basic literacy and life skills. In addition, they have little or no job experience and lack marketable skills. The goal of adult education programs providing services to correctional facilities is to involve offenders in educational programming while incarcerated to lesson the possibilities they will return to a life of crime upon release. Many offenders, especially youth offenders, can be diverted from a life of crime into productive citizenship with available educational, vocational, work skills, and related services. The adult education programming at correctional facilities can assist and encourage incarcerated individuals to acquire functional literacy, life, and job skills, through the pursuit of a GED and hopefully on to postsecondary education.

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