-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 …