ABSTRACT In comparing what correctional officers, correctional staff and women inmates identify as the most effective type of rehabilitative programs needed, there is sometimes a wide gap in their perceptions. This paper examines those differences as they apply to educational, behavior modification, and vocational programs in a women's prison in Nebraska. This study annotates how each ranked the importance of specific programs. A review of predictions by the U.S. Department of Labor compares the job market for the year 2005 with current inmate vocational programs. In conclusion, those programs that all three groups identified as being the most effective are listed. Data for this study were collected in June of 1994, through coordination with the Nebraska Department of Corrections and the University of Nebraska at Kearney. The purpose was initially designed to evaluate how women inmates at the Nebraska Center for Women (NCW) perceived their current educational, behavior modification, and vocational programs, and the levels of importance placed on each program. However, after the initial data was collected it was recognized that perceptions of the inmates might not necessarily reflect those of the correctional staff or correctional officers. Therefore, the study was enlarged to incorporate the views of the other two groups. The initial results, which covered only the perceptions of women inmates, were published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Volume 22, Numbers 3/4, 1995. A more detailed explanation of the survey instrument and results pertaining only to the women inmates are included there. The purpose of this paper is to acquaint the reader with a brief general background and to proceed on into the comparisons between the inmates, correctional staff and correctional officers.