Abstract:

This study was conducted in order to identify the opinions of imprisoned and convicts in penal institutions about the training they had and to determine their needs for future employment. The study is a \"descriptive research\" since it has the purpose of determining the situation of evaluating training activities of the participants. The data needed for the purpose of research was collected via questionnaire form. 329 imprisoned and convicts in Penal Institution participated to the research. Data obtained in the scope of the research was analyzed with SPSS 17.0 statistical software package. It was found that imprisoned and convicts did not find  the educations given at penal institutions and the educators adequate , different reasons were found about not participating the education and despite these negative views it was found that these trainings had significant contributions to the imprisoned and convicts.