prison term and the potential labour market outcomes of this investment. The results suggest that prisoners use education … makers have emphasised the importance of rehabilitating prisoners as a way of reducing recidivism. Consequently, the … management of prisoners has changed, with more prisoners being encouraged to undertake some form of education, training and …

-specific prison incarceration rates. We find very little evidence of an effect of the large reduction in incarceration rates on … research, the results from this study support the hypothesis of a crime-prison effect that diminishes with the scale of …

between incarceration and employment rates for former female state prisoners from Illinois. Our analysis indicates that … although prison is associated with declining employment rates during the quarters leading up to women's incarcerations, it does … not appear to harm their employment prospects later on. In the short-term, we estimate that women's post-prison employment …

We use a unique data set on post-release behavior of former Italian inmates to estimate the effect of prison conditions … on recidivism. By combining different sources of data we exploit variation in prison conditions measured by: 1) the … extent of overcrowding at the prison level, 2) the number of deaths in the facility of detention during an inmate’s stay and …