Skip to sections below

Share this intervention

PrintEmail

Summary

Minnesota Vocational Education for Incarcerated People was provided to individuals incarcerated in state department of corrections facilities who have a high school diploma or GED and included certified vocational certificate programs and career and employability skills training.

Minnesota Vocational Education for Incarcerated People was provided to individuals incarcerated in state department of corrections facilities who have a high school diploma or GED and included certified vocational certificate programs and career and employability skills training. Available vocational education programs included barbering and cosmetology, construction, manufacturing, mechanical design and drafting, business management, and computer careers. Instructors had to be certified by the Minnesota Correctional Education Center.

The program was evaluated statewide in Minnesota.

101054-Study of Minnesota V
Populations and employment barriers: At least a high school diploma or equivalent, Justice involvement

Effectiveness rating and effect by outcome domain

Need more context or definitions for the Outcome Domain table below?
View the "Table help" to get more insight into terms, measures, and definitions.

View table help

Scroll to the right to view the rest of the table columns

Outcome domain Term Effectiveness rating Effect in 2024 dollars and percentages Effect in standard deviations Sample size
Increase earnings Short-term Little evidence to assess support $0 per year 0.000 1304
Long-term No evidence to assess support
Very long-term No evidence to assess support
Increase employment Short-term Little evidence to assess support favorable 4% (in percentage points) 0.090 1304
Long-term No evidence to assess support
Very long-term No evidence to assess support
Decrease benefit receipt Short-term No evidence to assess support
Long-term No evidence to assess support
Very long-term No evidence to assess support
Increase education and training All measurement periods No evidence to assess support
* This intervention was assessed as supported for this domain, meaning it achieved one or more statistically significant, favorable effects. However, the intervention has an average effect size that is unfavorable because the average includes all effects in this domain - both statistically significant and favorable effects and statistically insignificant but unfavorable effects.

Effectiveness rating key:

  • Well-supported Well-supported   
  • Supported  Supported   
  • Not supported  Not supported   
  • Mixed support  Mixed support   
  • Insufficient evidence  Insufficient evidence   
  • No evidence  No evidence
Effectiveness rating terms?

Studies of this intervention

Study quality rating Study counts per rating
Moderate Moderate 1
Back to top

Implementation details

Organizations implementing intervention

Instructors with credentials issued by the Minnesota Correctional Educational Center delivered the program in Minnesota Department of Corrections facilities statewide.

The information contained here reflects how the intervention was implemented at the time of the evaluation.

Local context

The providers and study sites were located statewide in Minnesota.

Characteristics of research participants
White
59%
Unknown, not reported, or other
41%

The race and ethnicity categories may sum to more than 100 percent if the authors reported race and ethnicity separately; in these cases, we report the category White, rather than White, not Hispanic.

State(s) where implemented

AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE DC FL GA HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA WA WV WI WY Canada

The Pathways Clearinghouse refers to interventions by the names used in study reports or manuscripts. Some intervention names may use language that is not consistent with our style guide, preferences, or the terminology we use to describe populations.