…Scheyett, Pettus-Davis and Morrissey, 2010). Mentally ill prisoners were twice as likely to have been homeless prior to incarceration than the general prison population (BJS, 2006). One-third to one-half reported…
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…difficult by our high rates of incarceration, the growth of community supervision and intrusive policing strategies.” Consider Travis’s 2008 speech in the context of the findings of the 2013 study…
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…your community, rates of incarceration, and more — there’s a government agency that can provide key data and insightful reports. It can seem overwhelming, but there are actually only 13…
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…policies by Circuit and its related states.” “Does the Front Line Reflect the Party Line? The Politicization of Punishment and Prison Officers’ Perspectives towards Incarceration” Lerman, Amy E.; Page,…
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…Among Young Black Less-Educated Men: The Role of Incarceration and Child Support,” suggests that incarceration and child support enforcement account for at least half of the decline in employment among…
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…that between 2007 and 2009, approximately 58 percent of state prisoners depended on or abused drugs in the year prior to incarceration. In fact, many are in prison because of…
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…found that teenage boys raised by single moms are at a greater risk for incarceration. Relatively few studies, however, have looked at how certain qualities in fathers affect children who…
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…12 months before their incarceration has increased sharply over the past five years. In 2012, 23.5 percent of offenders in the state reported using illicit methamphetamine in the 12 months…
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…of Justice has held conferences exploring the potential of these new techniques. For more, also see “Reducing Crime through Prevention Not Incarceration,” published in Criminology & Public Policy, and “Predictive…
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…a higher level of education, income, socioeconomic status and health coverage than comparable non-participant children. Overall, CPC participants had 22% lower rates of felony arrest, 28% lower rates of incarceration…
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