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[State Grants for Incarcerated Youth Offenders]{.smallcaps}

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| **Goal:** To increase access to and  | **Fu  |       |       |       |
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| **Legislation:** Higher Education    | 1985  | \$0   | 2000  | \$14  |
| Act (HEA) of 1998, P.L. 105-244 (20  |       |       |       |       |
| U.S.C. 1151).                        |       |       |       |       |
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|                                      | 1990  | \$0   | 2001  | \$17  |
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###### Program Description

The State Grants for Incarcerated Youth Offenders program provides
financial assistance to eligible entities to help them establish,
improve, and expand post secondary education and post secondary training
programs in correctional facilities serving youth, age 25 or younger.
The purpose is to help correctional facilities establish and operate
programs designed to reduce recidivism through the development and
improvement of literacy and work skills necessary for reintegration into
society.

Under this formula grant program, authorized by the Higher Education
Act, the U.S. Department of Education awards grants to state
correctional education agencies to provide postsecondary educational
services to incarcerated youth offenders who are within five years of
release or parole; and serving their sentence in a state prison. These
programs assist and encourage incarcerated youths to acquire functional
literacy, life, and job skills through the pursuit of a postsecondary
education certificate or an associates or bachelor's degree while in
prison. In addition, employment counseling and other related services
may begin during the period of incarceration and continue through
prerelease and while on parole.

The program was funded in FY 2000. Forty-five projects were funded at
correctional education facilities during the first year. FY 2001 funds
will be used for continuation grants for the 45 existing projects and
for new grants to eligible entities.

The Incarcerated Youth Offenders grants are monitored by the
Department's Office of Correctional Education (OCE) which also provides
technical support to state and local education agencies and schools
funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on correctional education
programs and curricula.

For more information, please visit the program Web site at:
www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/OCE/index.html

Program Performance

Objective 1: Grantees will develop and implement improved educational
programs that include postsecondary education and vocational training.

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Objective 2: Improve access to postsecondary education and job placement
programs for incarcerated persons to help offenders reintegrate into
their communities after release.

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