m participants than for nonparticipants;
(3) Factors associated with higher program success rates included keeping the program separate from the rest of prison routine, providing follow-up after release, identifying and attracting a target population, and providing marketable vocational skills.
(4) Most academic programming exerted their greatest effects on inmates at the lower grade levels; with vocational programs producing greater effects on recidivism rates than academic programs.
There have been suggestions that adult basic educational programs may be highly effective but only for a certain subset of inmates. For example, in another study of educational programs in the Texas correctional system, Adams, Bennett, Flanagan, Marquart, Cuvelier, Fritsch, Gerber, Longmire and Burton (1994) conducted an extensive large-scale multidimensional evaluation study of the prison education in Texas. Official records from the Texas State Department of Corrections were used to examine the prison behavior and postrelease recidivism of 14,000+ inmates, al
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