This paper analyzes the employment prospects of former prison inmates and reviews recent evaluations of reentry … interventions centered on employment. I present an empirical portrait of the U.S. prison population and prison releases using … nationally representative survey data. I characterize the personal traits of state and federal prison inmates, including their …

We study the re-arrest rates for two groups: individuals formerly in prison and individuals formerly under electronic … monitoring (EM). We find that the recidivism rate of former prisoners is 22% while that for those 'treated' with electronic … rationed to only some offenders; and some institutional features (such as bad prison conditions) convert ideological …

brother networks. When a defendant is sent to prison, there are 51 and 32 percentage point reductions in the probability his …

An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected … endogeneity concerns, we exploit the random assignment of judges who differ in their propensity to send defendants to prison …

Understanding whether, and in what situations, time spent in prison is criminogenic or preventive has proven … assignment of criminal cases to judges who differ systematically in their stringency in sentencing defendants to prison. Using … rates of recidivism among ex-convicts is due to selection, and not a consequence of the experience of being in prison …

prison growth in recent decades, and this trend is evident among arrested offenders in every major crime category. Changes in …