COEP-WiderNet

Corrections-learners who already have digital skills for using the Internet need to keep those skills sharp; those who do not must acquire them. Either way, using their time upping their information-use skills will smooth reentry and reduce recidivism.

COEP's learning platform is Internet-like but is not connected. Using a browser to navigate over 35 million indexed secure educational resources, COEP looks and feels like the Internet.

The server underlying COEP, eGranary Digital Library, features many cool subjects to serve the wide variety of needs in corrections-learners - all indexed, clickable, and searchable through this browser.

COEP keeps people involved using information for their own good.

15 AMAZING EFFECTS OF PRISON LIBRARIES

According to his blog The Graveyard Shift, Lee Loflund "is a veteran police investigator who began his law-enforcement career working as an officer in Virginia’s prison system. He later became a sheriff’s deputy, a patrol officer, and finally, he achieved the highly-prized gold shield of detective. Along the way, he gained a breadth of experience that’s unusual to find in the career of a single officer."

His hard work writing every day for 10 years has landed his blog in the Top 20 of Police Blogs, and he brilliantly founded Writer's Police Academy held each year to offer "an exciting and heart-pounding interactive and educational hands-on experience for writers to enhance their understanding of all aspects of law enforcement, firefighting, EMS, and forensics."

Can't wait to tell him about how COEP provides an offline library of libraries education platform for corrections organizations.

15 Amazing Effects of Prison Libraries - Lee Lofland Prisons have long been at the center of much social, political, and even philosophical debate. What rights prisoners should have, what works to rehabilitate them, and how much taxpayer money should go into supporting prisons have been some of the key issues in both recent years and throughout histor...