Career mapping for incarcerated learners. Realistic post-release pathways.

Three deployment patterns. (1) Closed-network kiosk — assessments run on facility computers connected to a private network with sync to JobCannon servers handled by approved education-staff workstations once daily. (2) Whitelisted-domain access — facilities with controlled internet access can whitelist the JobCannon domain for the education computer lab while restricting other network traffic. (3) Fully air-gapped — for facilities without any network access, an offline mode delivers assessments on standalone machines with results synced via approved physical media exchange when education staff have network access. The first two are operationally simpler; the third is rare but possible for high-security facilities.

Second Chance Pell sites — postsecondary programmes operating in correctional facilities under the Pell experimental site initiative — typically deliver college coursework toward associate or bachelor's degrees. JobCannon serves these sites at the career-discovery layer underneath the academic programme. Incarcerated students take assessments inside the postsecondary programme curriculum (often in a career-services or first-year-experience component) and Career Match output informs major selection and post-release career planning. We do not deliver coursework or grant credit; we are the assessment-and-discovery layer.

The platform does not pretend a record does not affect the realistic pathway landscape, and it does not gate Career Match by background-check requirements either. Career Match shows the full match against the 2,536-career graph; education staff conduct the realistic-pathway conversation considering the participant's specific record, the state's ban-the-box and fair-chance hiring landscape, and licensing-board policies on consideration of past convictions. Many states have moved significantly on automatic-eligibility-restoration for licensure occupations (cosmetology, healthcare adjacent roles, CDL); the realistic landscape changes faster than career assessment platforms typically track.

State Departments of Corrections education divisions and reentry coordinators expect data on programme completion and release-readiness indicators. The platform exports completion records, archetype distribution, Career Match alignment to identified post-release pathway, and skill-cluster baselines for cohort comparison across facilities. We do not file directly with state corrections data systems; we provide the structured cohort export the education-division data lead uses in internal reporting. State reentry councils tracking outcomes across multiple agencies (Corrections, Workforce, Vocational Rehabilitation) use the aggregate to inform interagency coordination.

BJA Second Chance Act grants, Justice Reinvestment Initiative work, and similar federal corrections-and-reentry funding streams typically expect outcomes data including educational programme completion and post-release placement. JobCannon contributes the assessment-evidence column. We do not satisfy any BJA framework end-to-end; we provide one piece of evidence in the broader programme reporting. State and local agencies running BJA-funded programmes typically pay for the platform under the grant's programme operations or technology line.

Incarcerated populations have constitutional and statutory privacy protections that vary significantly by state. The platform deploys with default participant-controlled consent posture — incarcerated learners see what is collected and can request deletion. Education staff see archetype and Career Match summary; raw psychometric answers are not surfaced to corrections officers or non-education staff. Data shared with parole, probation, or post-release service providers requires participant consent through the existing release-planning process; we do not enable corrections-system-wide data sharing as a platform default.