Children and youth involved in the child welfare andjuvenile justice systems, like all children, deserve a quality education that allows them to develop the skills and competencies necessary for them to become productive adults. Regrettably, this is infrequently the case. Many of these children and youth leave school without a regular diploma, and still others graduate without the academic skills and social-emotional competencies that constitute twenty-first century learning skills. In commissioning this paper, the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) at Georgetown University?s Public Policy Institute has recognized these poor outcomes and the need for greater cross-system collaboration to correct these negative outcomes.

UNITED NATION (2005)
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights - A pocket book of International Human Rights Standards for Prison Officials (it mentions education)

Evaluation of Danish Prison Education (2006, 2007)
with English Summery

Norwegian Parliament Report no. 27 on Prison Education
English version of "Enda en vår"

(Original titel: "Å lære bak murerne").
This translation has been funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Danish, Finnish and Swedish Prison and Probation Service and the County Governor of Hordaland, Norway, as well as by a grant from the European Prison Education Association (EPEA). 

From International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

Roskilde, Denmark, 2004 (Mainly written in Danish, but contains an English summery)

This study examines the literacy levels among the prison population in Ireland. The survey, which was funded by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, was carried out in Irish prisons in May 2001, using materials based on the International Adult Literacy Survey which had been used in a study of the general population of Ireland and other countries beginning in 1995.

March 2005 - Prison Education, Main Report
March 2005 - Prison Education, oral and written evidence

In English