…by education, earnings, incarceration rates of blacks, institutions that remained after slavery, geographic sorting, or contemporary barriers to voting,” Williams writes. Her forthcoming paper adds to a growing body of…
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…are completely unanswered questions.” Hannaford-Agor notes that in Texas, courts now allow remote trials for people charged with misdemeanors, so long as they do not face incarceration. Ivan Dominguez, a…
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…when inequality is at a breaking point, at rock bottom or stagnating on many dimensions: health and mortality differences, the wealth gap, the income gap, the incarceration gap, among others….
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…process of arrest through the duration of any incarceration, which can last days to decades. “Some studies only record deaths in the police cell, with suicide as an exclusion criteria…
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…and better relationships with their fathers and their mothers, benefits that remained even when there were high levels of conflict between their parents.” Separation — incarceration “Parental Incarceration and…
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…incarceration group, 17% reported living with their father but not their mother (compared to 6% in the paternal incarceration group and 5% in the group where neither parent went to…
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…based on the scientific evidence: “The growth in incarceration rates in the United States over the past 40 years is historically unprecedented and internationally unique.” “The unprecedented rise in incarceration…
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…child-reported antisocial behaviors. Children’s prosocial development did not appear to be negatively impacted by paternal incarceration. However, the author cautions against the assumption that parental incarceration has no impact on…
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…peers whose parents were not incarcerated, according to new research published in Pediatrics. Parental incarceration is considered an adverse childhood experience (ACE). Adverse childhood experiences are linked with worsened health…
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The United States’ system of incarceration is vast, with 122 federal prisons and thousands of state prisons, private prisons, local jails and juvenile correctional facilities. At the end of 2015,…
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