Nucleos provides tablets and a secure online portal with content and communication controls. The portal allows facilities to monitor learner activity and ensure compliance with their regulations. With the tablets, incarcerated individuals can access iCEV’s curriculum and industry certification training, and tests. iCEV content covers areas including trade, life and soft skills; financial literacy; mental health; and career development.
A participating inmate education program in California uses Nucleos tablets to provide iCEV’s course on job life skills, which teaches digital literacy, professional communication and general employability skills, and personal health and wellness. The program also offers certification programs like General Educational Development (GED), adult basic education and high school diploma programs, as well as courses on workforce readiness, career technical education and parenting.
“Studies have shown that inmates who participate in education programs while incarcerated are 30 percent less likely to recidivate (return to jail once released),” according to the California program’s website. “This reduced recidivism saves taxpayer dollars (the cost to incarcerate an adult in California is $81,000 per year, according to data from the [California Legislative Analyst’s Office].”
Incarcerated individuals with access to Nucleos tablets can also pursue industry certifications in fields like agriculture, food service, animal science, construction and communications. One formerly incarcerated individual used iCEV’s curriculum to earn an associate’s degree, a bachelor’s degree and multiple automotive certifications, and was able to start a new job as an automotive technician two weeks after release, after spending 36 years incarcerated in Louisiana.
