This paper fills a noticeable gap in the current economic and penology literature by proposing new performance enhancing policies based on an efficiency analysis of a sample of male prisons in England and Wales. In addition, we advance the empirical literature by integrating the managerialism of...

This paper analyses the efficiency of English and Welsh Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) during the period 2007-08 to 2010-11 accounting for the fact that prisons can both promote good behaviour but also generate undesirable outcomes. With these problems in mind, a new non-parametric program...