In addition to Adult Basic Education (ABE), Adult Secondary Education (ASE), and vocational training, the NDCS offers relationship, life skills, and parenting programs
for inmates.62 Facilities in Kansas choose to offer either the InsideOut or Active Parenting Now programs, and can combine them with Play and Learn classes, in which inmates can
apply the skills from the curricula with their children in a supervised setting.63 Washington has implemented two Parenting Sentencing Alternatives to keep nonviolent
offenders with minor children out of prison: the Family and
Offender Sentencing Alternative (FOSA), in which
offenders» sentences are waived and they are placed under community supervision, and the Community Parenting Alternative (CPA), a partial confinement program in which
offenders remain under electronic monitoring surveillance.64 These two programs are in addition to Washington's Strength in Families program, which is a parenting, relationship, and
employment readiness program
for soon - to - be-released prisoners.