Prison Work-Release Programs and Incarcerated Women's Labor Market Outcomes

• NCJ Number: 254314
• Date Published: 2019
• Length: 9 pages
• Author(s): Haeil Jung; Robert J. LaLonde
• Agencies: NIJ-Sponsored
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description
• Grant Number(s): 02-DB-BX-0017

Annotation

This article reports on a study that examined whether the work-release program in Illinois prisons increases women's earnings and employment.

Abstract

Using a large matched administrative database, the study found that a longer time served in an Adult Transition Center (ATC) increased total earnings and the probability of being employed during the time in an ATC, for both ATC parolees and dropouts. Furthermore, ATC parolees and dropouts with a longer stay in an ATC had sizable increases in their earnings and employment rates after incarceration; however, the incompletion of the ATC terms by ATC dropouts seemed to carry stigma that reduced their post-incarceration earnings or employment rates. (publisher abstract modified)