War Zone Round 2: Exploring Incarceration Rates in the United States by Race within the Veteran GroupMartinez, WhitneyMartinez, Whitney
Using an agent-based model of incarceration, the authors conduct a series of simulation experiments testing the efficacy of policy interventions designed to address racial disparities in incarceration rates. The first experiment eliminates race-based sentencing disparities, and additional experiments eliminate...
To create the final score of lead risk from both housing age and poverty, the Washington State measure normalizes both the poverty rate and housing age risk rates so that each variable has mean 0 and standard deviation 1, then averages the two normalized measures, weighting the poverty ...
Compared with non-Black participants, Black participants had significantly higher mortality rates (aHR, 1.28; 95% CI, 1.08-1.52; E-values, 1.88 for main estimate and 1.37 for lower bound of the 95% CI). In the analysis stratified by race, incarceration was the factor with the strongest ...
Such claims may lure states into building private prisons or privatizing existing ones rather than reducing incarceration rates and limiting corrections spending through seriouscriminal justicereform. This year, advocates of for-profit prisons trotted out privatization schemes as a supposed answer to budgeta...
The War on Drugs in the United States has a profound influence on both the incarceration rates and activities of the criminal justice system. Many politicians and advocates of the policy claim that the War on Drugs is a necessary element to deter criminal behavior and reduce the crime rate. ...
2 This is especially unfortunate given the higher rates of opioid overdose immediately after release from incarceration.3 In July 2016, a new model of screening and protocoled treatment with MAT (including methadone, buprenorphine, or naltrexone) launched at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections...
“Two years after Obama’s election, Alexander put the entire criminal justice system on trial, exposing racial discrimination from lawmaking to policing to the denial of voting rights to ex-prisoners. This bestseller struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter.” ...
assessed by the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10). Among 1482 AAMSM and LMSM (AAMSM: 911, LMSM: 571), we found 768 (52%) were previously incarcerated, but not in past three months and 138 (9.3%) had been recently incarcerated. After adjusting for race, education, access to ...
The prevalence of temporary housing residence I observe in the NLSY97 (15.2% by 2017 among respondents who have been incarcerated for a felony) is in keeping with rates of homelessness observed among formerly incarcerated individuals in other studies (Metraux et al.2007; Remster2021). ...