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                                    Correctional Industries Initiative

      

                    
          
    Correctional Industries Initiative
As indicated by Schmitt & Warner, incarceration may improve an offender’s labor market prospects if the time in prison or jail has a rehabilitative effect and/or leads to the offender receiving additional education or training. In practice, Correctional Industries provides offenders a real-life work experience that helps them develop the skills needed to compete in today’s job market successfully. (Schmitt and Warner, Ex-Offenders and the Labor Market, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, DC, 2010)

The NIC Correctional Industries Initiative serves as a catalyst to provide Industries staff and their stakeholders with the information, expertise, and capacity needed to identify relevant organizational priorities, establish strategic objectives, identify measurable goals and objectives, create partnerships, and respond to the reentry needs of the offender population. Additionally, the practitioners learn to use current labor market information to help them provide offenders with specialized services and programming that support the offender’s long-term attachment to the labor force.

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Correctional Industries Director’s Training
	During this training 40 hour blended-training course, Correctional Industries administrators will develop the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to identify relevant organizational priorities, establish strategic objectives, identify measurable goals and objectives, establish collaborative partnerships, utilize current labor market information, and provide specialized services and programming that support the offenders’ long term attachment to the labor force.
	Workforce Development Regional Training: Enhancing Correctional Industries’ Role in Reentry
	In this three-day session, participants will learn how to: administer informal assessments, learn strategies for collaborating with stakeholders, and establish a Career Resource Center.See NIC's Public Training Catalog

    Resource Links
          Correctional Industries Preparing Inmates for Re-Entry: Recidivism & Post-Release. Final report
          Performance Audit of Pennsylvania Correctional Industries of the Department of Corrections
          Correctional Industries Program: Class I Employment
          National Correctional Industries Association (NCIA)
          A Study of Drug Testing Practices (2020)
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          Correctional Industries: A Guide to Reentry-Focused Performance Excellence
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Correctional Industries: A Working Solution [Satellite/Internet Broadcast]

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Greening Corrections: People, Programs, and Practices [Satellite/Internet Broadcast held July 14, 2010]

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Innovative Reentry Strategies: The Emerging Role of Correctional Industries [Satellite/Internet Broadcast held October 7, 2009]

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Building Tomorrow's Workforce: An Effective Reentry Strategy [Satellite/Internet Broadcast held August 2008]

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          Transition and Workforce Development
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          Correctional Industries
            A Guide to Reentry-Focused Performance Excellence

The Reentry-Focused Performance Excellence  Guide is a compilation of key best practice components that provide CI programs the direction and tools necessary to be significant contributors to the nationwide Reentry Initiative.

Learn more about best practices for correctional industries

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          P. Elizabeth Taylor
      
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              Correctional Program Specialist

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          Robbye Braxton
      
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