Abstract
Prison-based educational reforms can play a critical role in successful inclusion of convicted persons back in societies. Prior work on this topic suggests that most government agencies predominantly focus on conventional skill-training programs and ignore the entrepreneurial learning and training programs. Consequently, many prisoners yet again opt for criminal-activities once free because of limited jobs available for conventional skills and potential employers’ discriminatory attitudes toward ex-prisoners. Entrepreneurship scholars suggest that offering entrepreneurship-based skills and training programs to the prisoners can restrain them from repeating criminal behavior because self- employment as an occupational career path can help overcome potential employers’ discriminatory attitudes, and these entrepreneurship programs can improve self-awareness, rational thinking and social skills. However, much work on entrepreneurial education for prison reforms and criminal rehabilitation is done across the western world and our understanding is limited on this topic from the perspective of the Islamic world. In the current study, we aim at reviewing the literature available on prison entrepreneurial programs among selected member states of the Organization of Islamic Corporation (OIC) to shed light on the trends and progress of incorporating entrepreneurship in jail reforms.
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