Prison conditions
Through Their Eyes: How Prisoners Make Sense of Their Incarceration
Examining Race and Gender Disparities in Restricted Housing Placements
Topical Working Group on the Use of Administrative Segregation in the U.S., October 22-23, 2015
What We Know — and Don't Know — About Restrictive Housing
What do we know about the use of restrictive housing in jails and prison in the U.S.? Leading practitioners and researchers discuss what the current evidence can tell us about how restrictive housing is used, who is in restrictive housing, its effects on inmate populations, and what else we need to learn to identify alternatives to restrictive housing.
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Sex Offenders: Recidivism and Collateral Consequences
Consequences of a Prison Record for Employment
Dr. Decker gave a seminar in NIJ's Research for the Real World series about his research on the impact of race, gender and prison records on finding employment.
Before the seminar, we sat down with Dr. Decker for an interview to discuss his findings and their policy implications.
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Consequences of a Prison Record for Employment: How Do Race, Ethnicity & Gender Factor In?
Scientific studies have long documented the negative impact of a prison record on a person's ability to find employment. But what is the impact when gender and race/ethnicity are factored in? Also, most jobs are now advertised online — so how does this affect the ability of former prisoners to find a job?
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