Vocational Training In Prisons

Due to their history, many ex-criminal offenders face many challenges achieving employment once released from prisons. Even though juvenile and adult criminal offenders may seem like a loss cause in providing interventions, a number of research conclude that they will benefit from career counseling and vocational training. Employment can fulfill the basic needs of people, including a sense of pride, accomplishment, and autonomy (Derzis, Shippen, Meyer, Curtis, & Houchins, 2013). Being engaged in a job also reduces criminal behavior of individuals. There are many benefits of incorporating vacationing training in the prison system. Prison industries is a correctional program offer inmates vocational training and real work experience. Work performed
Many juvenile offenders face vocational, educational, and interpersonal challenges that can transpire into their adulthood (Allen & Bradley, 2015). Vocational training in youth is crucial because, “if detained youth are not included in vocational development they will forever be disconnected and criminalized” (Ameen & Lee, 2012 p. 99). Vocational training provides former juvenile inmates with marketable skills, fewer disciplinary problems, lower recidivism, fewer parole violations, greater post-detention employment, and reduced correctional costs through public private partnerships (Ameen & Lee, 2012). Therefore, it is vital that juvenile systems intervene and promote career exploration ant training. Research shows that career counseling promotes future employment, which is a said to be a key factor in preventing and reducing the increasing rates of recidivism (Allen & Bradley, 2015). Career counseling encourages youth to form an interest in education and other active areas. They will be encouraged to go back to school, take active roles in the community, explore other pursuits of their interest, or all of the above. None of this is possible without the correct guidance. Youth who face challenges in making decisions about their future may have uncertainty, anxiety,
Career counseling should allow the youth to engage and promote a healthy sense of self and feel empowered to fight for themselves with feelings of oppression by society and employers. Vocational training provides juveniles the ability to identify their own interests and apply their own strengths. It can also assist them in adopting healthy decision-making processes in their personal lives which lead to having success. Successful career counseling trains juveniles to not only deal with stereotypes that they may face as they return to their communities with criminal records but also become positive representatives of their social