VIDEOS

NCIA’s YouTube Channel – View video clips from a joint NIC/NCIA satellite broadcast regarding all aspects of Correctional Industries including reentry, business and organizational management, developing staff, customer satisfaction and more. 

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• Arizona Correctional Industries – Florence Metal Shop

• Arizona Correctional Industries – Perryville Print Shop

• Arizona Correctional Industries – Wild Horse and Burro Program

• CALPIA Overview

• CALPIA - All Videos

• CALPIA Offenders to Get Jobs as Programmers

• CALPIA YouTube Channel

• Future Construction Workers at Folsom Women’s Facility

• Illinois Correctional Industries: Connecting Skills to Careers

• Illinois Correctional Industries: Ex-Offender Says Prison Gave Him a Second Chance

• Illinois Correctional Industries: Offender Interviews at Danville Correctional Center

(to access the video link above, please use the following password: “industries”)

• Illinois Correctional Industries: Rehabilitating Lives

• Iowa Prison Industries Video

• Maine – No Idle Hands

• Maryland Correctional Enterprises: Who We Are

• Maryland Correctional Enterprises: Hope for the Future

• Mississippi Prison Industries: Second Chances

• Montana Correctional Enterprises – Made in Montana Program

• North Carolina Correction Enterprises: The Correction Enterprises Story 

• North Carolina Correction Enterprises: The Hidden Workforce

• North Carolina Correction Enterprises: License Tag Production

• Serving Time: A Short Documentary on Utah Correctional Industries’ Serving Time Cafe

• Strafford County Jail Industries Video

• UNICOR Offender Testimonials

• UNICOR Second Chances Video

• Utah Correctional Industries

• Washington State CI: Reentry Video – Soft Skills

• Washington State CI: Reentry Video – Vocational Education

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STUDIES

Recidivism:

• CALPIA - The Effect of Prison Industries on Recidivism

• Why Work While Incarcerated? Inmate Perceptions on Prison Industries Employment

• Washington State Correctional Industries: an Outcome Evaluation of its Effect on Institutional Behavior, Employment, and Recidivism

• Assessment of the “Making It Work” Program

• Correctional Industries Preparing Inmates for Re-entry: Recidivism & Post release

• Reentry and Prison Work Programs (Bushway)

• Offender Reentry: Correctional Statistics, Reintegration into the Community, and Recidivism

• Prison Work Program (Corcan) Participation: Post-release Employment and Recidivism

• Assessing the Impact of Prison Industries on Post-Release Employment and Recidivism of Florida Inmates

• Iowa Private Sector Prison Employment Works

• Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Recidivism Report 2013

• Does Participation in Washington’s Correctional Industries Increase Employment and Reduce Recidivism 

• UNICOR’s Post Release Employment Project (PREP) Study

 

Economic Impact Studies:

• Arizona - The Economic, Social and Fiscal Impact of Televerde's Prison Workforce

• Arizona Correctional Industries Indirect Impact Study (FY 2016)

• CALPIA Economic Impact Study (FY2012 – 2013)

 

Cost Benefit Studies:

• Iowa Department of Corrections Return on Investment: Evidence-Based Options to Improve Outcomes

• Results First Report for Oregon Department of Corrections

• Washington State CI – What Works and What Does Not? Benefit-Cost Findings from WSIPP (February 2015)

 

State Reports:

• California Prison Industry Authority (CALPIA) Career Technical Education (CTE) program

• California Prison Industry Authority Report to the Legislature FISCAL YEAR 2014-2015

• Iowa Corrections: What Works

• Iowa Ex-Offender Survey Results 07-2010

• UNICOR 80th Anniversary Publication

• UNICOR Socio-Economic Impact – The Straight Facts

• Washington State CI 2016 Fact Sheet

• Washington State CI Overview

 

RESOURCES:

• Workers with Criminal Records: A Survey by the Society for Human Resource Management and the Charles Koch Institute