Correctional educators recommend that inmates participating in literacy programs be given rewards such as earlier release for passing graded level tests or for acting as a tutor. Technology Reports and studies recommend that technology, including television and telecommunications, be used to deliver programming. No state has a satellite delivered or ITFS delivered prison literacy network. Few prisons have satellite dishes but many have cable which is delivered to a television viewing room in the prison. A number of them have cable hookups in the cells.
Inmates purchase their own television sets.
A number of prisons are using video tapes for literacy training and like them. Video is available in train the trainer, basic literacy, pre-GED, GED, ESL, life skills, employability skills, and vocational education. The series is recommended as a basis for a seminar series by Westcott Communications. Lists of programming are part of this report. In-Service Training for Correctional Educators and Counselors During the interviews with correctional educators, it became clear that they received little training after they were hired and the vast majority had received no correctional education courses at college.