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 over the period 2009/10. In addition, we advance the empirical literature by...

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...