This Policy Information Report from the Education Testing Service describes the rising prison population and its characteristics, examines the status of prison education programs and their impact, and describes programs that try to help ex-prisoners reenter society (Adobe PDF)...
University of Oregon students help improve prison education library
U of O students involved in the Inside-Out Prison program organize a book drive to collect books to improve the educational library at the Oregon State Penitentiary... (PDF)
Knowing that children of incarcerated parents are much more likely than their peers to be incarcerated as adults, the DOC began the Children of Incarcerated Parents Project to help break the intergenerational cycle of criminality.
After exploring a variety of phonics-based programs for over two years, the State of Oregon Department of Corrections recently selected the HEC Reading Horizons, Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself program to be implemented across the state's adult corrections system.