수형자 집중인성교육의 평가와 개선방안

Abstract

This study aims to examine overall problems in relation to the operation of the intensive character education programs for prison inmates and to suggest ways to improve them for greater effectiveness in carrying out the programs. The character-based intensive educational program is divided into courses I, II, III according to term of imprisonment, which offer programs of 35 hours, 100 hours, and 300 hours, respectively. They are designed to be offered mostly in early days of imprisonment. But only the courses II, III are practically intensive programs. The course I is a basic program designed for prisoners with less than three months left to serve, which is a 35-hour program combining 20 hours for new inmates and 15 hours for pre-release education. Thus, this study did not contain the course I for further examination. Survey was conducted with 385 inmates from 12 correctional facilities and 111 external instructors from 15 correctional facilities, in order to evaluate the intensive character education coursesⅡ, Ⅲ that had been implemented in 2015. And of them 338 inmates completed the course II, and 47 completed the course III. As a result, on the basis of survey results on prisoners and external instructors, improvement plans are boiled down to the following six domains: 1) Organization of sub-programs and enrichment of educational contents, 2) Operation and reorganization of the intensive course III, 3) Grouping considering characteristics of inmates taking the course, 4) Necessity for a consultative committee responsible for educational programs and opinion coordination among external instructors, 5) Improvement of conditions of education.