Welcome to the MTC Institute

The Institute is the research division of MTC and is dedicated to promoting innovations, exemplary practices, and projecting trends. The focus of our work addresses practical issues facing those who work with youth within Job Corps and offenders in correctional environments.

Founded on principles of rigorous investigation, the MTC Institute is shedding light on the best practices influencing the educational attainment and training of the dynamic workforce of the twenty-first century.

Latest Publications

This paper provides compelling information on why Job Corps is the training and education program that youth across America need to succeed. America’s economic success is dependent on typical Job Corps students, aged 16 to 24, and the economically disadvantaged, since they are the workforce needed to fill skilled jobs being left vacant. We need more production out of those students who are dropping out of school.

The number of women in the workforce is projected to grow by 10.9% compared to 9.1% for men through 2014; with women comprising 47% of the workforce. With a 13% workforce increase in the number of additional supervisory staff projected for corrections between 2006 and 2016, women represent a growing, educated human resource asset across the various careers in corrections. The Institute, in this public policy paper, looks at this growing part of the correctional workforce, examining issues affecting women and their career success.

In this 2007 qualitative study, Dr. Kimberly Greer inter­viewed 25 women in leadership positions (e.g., commissioners, directors, wardens, and consultants from both corrections and probation) throughout the U.S. and surveyed 180 members of the Association of Women Executives in Corrections (AWEC) resulting in data from 61 respondents. The study provides significant understanding of personal and professional issues women in crimi­nal justice leadership positions face.