-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 …

Crime rates in the United States have declined to historical lows since the early 1990s. Prison and jail incarceration … of an impact of the further stiffening of sentences during the 1990s, a period when prison and other correctional …

in prison using new administrative data on all released prisoners in the state of Missouri over nearly 25 years, and a … initiatives. These educational programs are expected to increase prisoners' post-release employability, with the hope that these … lead to both private and public benefits. One of the most popular programs prepares prisoners to pass the GED exam, which …

adults (221 prisoners per 100,000 adults). Recalculating Indigenous incarceration rates so that they are comparable over a … Indigenous adults are incarcerated (2481 prisoners per 100,000 adults), a higher share than among African-Americans. The recent … increase in the Australian prison population does not seem to be due to crime rates, which have mostly declined over the past …

county jail populations, a moderate decline in the state prison population, a decrease in arrests for property and drug …

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 …

The study investigates whether and how strong prison conditions contribute to the perceived propensity to recidivate … on personal characteristics of prison inmates and administrative prison data in an efficient way, we propose the use of … matched prison-prisoner data and application of cluster-sample methods such as GEE (generalized estimating equations …

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 …