1. TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOR INCARCERATED PERSONS
Shannon Johnson, Pamela Lopez, Heather Michel, Matthew Montemurno,
Vanita Murray and Leslie Pope
OMDE 606 Group 3

2. JUSTIFICATION
2.2 million people in the United States are incarcerated in either prison or jail
It has been shown that incarcerated people who had taken academic or vocational courses were 46% less likely to return to criminal behavior than those who had not taken college courses
Inmates who had participated in academic or vocational programs while incarcerated had a 13% higher rate of employment than those who did not participate in educational offerings while in the prison system.

3. SCOPE OF THE COURSE
A technology career program has been approved with a partnership between several dual-mode community colleges and the Maryland State Prison system
Eligible inmates must hold a GED or high school diploma and have at least months left of their sentence
Three-credit course
Requires 170 hours of study time – 10 hours of study per week
over 17 weeks
Course offered twice a year
Course is expected to enroll 210 students per year

4. THE COURSE Course Description
The Technology Career Training Program is designed to enable inmates to gain skills needed to pursue employment outside of the prison system.
Course Objectives
As a result of completing this program, inmates will be able to:
Efficiently communicate with employers verbally and in written form
Navigate Microsoft Office to generate and utilize documents
Solve employment case studies

5. The course will provide inmates with flexible learning
Synchronously – the inmates will be able to chat with faculty
Student-Instructor Interaction
Asynchronously - the inmates can view podcasts
Student-Content Interaction
Flexible Learning

6. COURSE MANAGEMENT Course Manager – two-thirds per annual time
Administrative Staff – one full-time
Correctional Facility Staff – one full-time
Tutor – two tutors per course
one-third per annual time
one tutor per 25 students

7. COURSE MATERIALS 12 Study guides – 75 pages each
One reader (200-pages)
Five apps
Tablets
Video Podcasts

8. STUDENT SUPPORT
Students will have access and will be supported by two tutors – one per 25 students
Students will be assessed on the basis of seven assignments that will be marked by the tutors

9. Cutting edge technology will be used throughout the course
Tablets – Ten Incarcerated Persons Education Pads (iPEP) developed by Union Supply in collaboration with the Correctional Education Association
Learning Management System – Moodle – an open source platform for course development and management.

10. BUDGET
The program has been approved to receive $535, 518 in grant monies from the NRRC Second Chance Act Technology Career Training Grant Program

11. LIST OF INGREDIENTS
As you can see the list of ingredients are complete with a list of overheads to include the course manager, administrative support staff and correctional facility staff- recurrent cost are $125, 000, fixed costs of development, fixed costs of maintenance , total fixed costs, total variable costs per student are all highlighted as well as the costs per student per credit hour

12. COSTING

13. GRAPHS

14. CHALLENGES
Supplementing this program into the multitude of existing prison programs
College level or graduate level courses are not easily available for inmates
The Second Act Bill that could be repealed by Congress

15. CONCLUSION
The proposed technology career training program will assist with the effort of giving inmates a second chance to be financially-independent, productive members of society.
The program will reach its breakeven point in the middle of its third year with students.
The program will continue to profit for years after.