inmates under their supervision. These powers place former inmates at significant risk of returning to prison as punishment …

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 …

data from male rural-urban migrants - prison inmates and comparable non-inmates - to examine whether parental absence in …

I study the causal pathways that link prison work programs to convict rehabilitation, leveraging administrative data … and the isolation of mechanisms. Due to competing channels, I find that work in unskilled prison jobs impacts convicts on … the reincarceration rate, within three years of release, of convicts on terms longer than six months – because prison work …

We conducted an experiment with 182 inmates from a maximum-security prison to analyze the impact of criminal identity … on dishonest behavior. We randomly primed half of the prisoners to increase the mental saliency of their criminal … identity, while treating the others as the control group. The results demonstrate that prisoners become more dishonest when we …