Condiciones De Reclusiin Y Reincidencia: Evidencia De Una Expansiin De Cupos Carcelario (Prison Conditions and Recidivism: Evidence from an Expansion in Prison Capacity)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago Tobon
Keyword(s):  
Prison Capacity

Public attitudes toward prison capacity expansion in Mississippi

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig T. Robertson ◽  
Melvin C. Ray
Keyword(s):  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Capacity Expansion ◽  
Prison Capacity

How Should Prison Capacity Be Measured?

1992 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 345-346
Author(s):  
Attorney General Barr
Keyword(s):  
Prison Capacity

scholarly journals Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recidivism

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 408-438
Author(s):  
Anita Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Cost Savings ◽  
Private Prisons ◽  
Average Sentence ◽  
Private Prison ◽  
Time Served ◽  
Prison Capacity ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Private Contracting ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

This paper examines the impact of private prison contracting by exploiting staggered prison capacity shocks in Mississippi. Motivated by a model based on the typical private prison contract that pays a per diem for each occupied bed, the empirical analysis shows that private prison inmates serve 90 additional days. This is alternatively estimated as 4.8 percent of the average sentence. The delayed release erodes half of the cost savings offered by private contracting and is linked to the greater likelihood of conduct violations in private prisons. The additional days served do not lead to apparent changes in inmate recidivism. (JEL H76, K42)

Limits to growth: The case of Dutch prison capacity

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Baerveldt ◽  
Hans Bunkers
Keyword(s):  
Limits To Growth ◽  
Prison Capacity

Mandatory Minimum Sentencing in Florida: Past Trends and Future Implications

1992 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
William D. Bales ◽  
Linda G. Dees
Keyword(s):  
Relative Effect ◽  
Major Portion ◽  
Early Release ◽  
Prison Capacity ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
Mandatory Minimum Sentencing ◽  
Year 2000

Early release programs in Florida have resulted in significant decreases in the percentage of sentences served. Mandatory minimum sentences are increasingly being imposed by the courts to ensure that a major portion of prison sentences are served. However, the long-term impact of these sentences has not been fully anticipated. This study presents the relative effect mandatory minimum sentences have on the length and cost of imprisonment along with their accumulative effect on prison capacity needs. A forecast of the number of inmates under mandatory minimum sentences to the year 2000 displays dramatically the consequences these sentencing options produce.

scholarly journals Secondary mental healthcare in prisons in England and Wales: results of a postal questionnaire

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (12) ◽  
pp. 445-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Kosky ◽  
Clifford Hoyle
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Postal Questionnaire ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Prison Capacity

Aims and methodPrison mental health inreach teams (PMHITs) were introduced in response to policy from 2003. This provision comes under the responsibility of the National Health Service. Service development and structure was not defined in policy. A total of 97 prisons of an estimated 100 known to have a PMHIT were targeted by postal questionnaire and responses covered 62 prisons. Team structures were captured in the data with specific regard to the number of available professional sessions.ResultsFindings determine there is generally no correlation between input and prison capacity, although there was some evidence of correlation in the high secure (category A) estate and that the female estate was generally better served.Clinical implicationsIt is evident from this study that PMHITs have evolved piecemeal, with no clear standards or equity across the estate. This is of concern.

An Approach to the Allocation of Scarce Imprisonment Resources

1983 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 546-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Blumstein ◽  
Joseph B. Kadane
Keyword(s):  
Safety Valve ◽  
Sentencing Guidelines ◽  
Capacity Limits ◽  
Prison Capacity ◽  
Capacity Constrained ◽  
Prison Populations ◽  
Made In

In response to the widespread problem of prison congestion, Connecticut's Corrections Commissioner, John Manson, has suggested that prison cells be allocated to judges so that they would assume some responsibility for keeping prison populations within capacity limits. We explore a number of the choices that must be made in implementing this proposal, including the questions of what units to allocate (e.g., cells or cell-years), to whom the allocation should go (courts, individual judges, or prosecutors), what rules for allocation would be proper and equitable, what procedures to follow when an allocation is depleted, how to manage spare cells for emergencies, and what research is needed to implement such a process. The Manson proposal forces a clear recognition of the need to deal with the problem of finite prison capacity, but the problems it raises warrant consideration of the Michigan "safety valve" or the Minnesota capacity-constrained sentencing guidelines for limiting prison congestion.

The Influence of Capacity on Prison Population: A Critical Review of Some Recent Evidence

1983 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred Blumstein ◽  
Jacqueline Cohen ◽  
William Gooding
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
Regression Equation ◽  
Coefficient Estimate ◽  
Widespread Acceptance ◽  
Data Points ◽  
Prison Capacity ◽  
Computation Error ◽  
Simple Regression

A recent study by Abt Associates (Abt/Carlson) purported to show that increments to prison capacity would lead to growth in prison population to fill that added capacity two years later. That finding has rapidly attained broad circulation and widespread acceptance. The original conclusion was based on a coefficient of 1.02 in a simple regression equation that represents change in prison population as a function of lagged changes in prison population and capacity. Reanalysis of the data shows that the original estimates resulted from a computation error; when that error is corrected the coefficient estimate is reduced to .264. Furthermore, two data points were particularly influential in the regression analysis, and omitting them results in a coefficient of .095 which is not statistic ally significant. Thus, the coefficient on which the original conclusion was based is eliminated in importance.

Learning from European Punishment Practices—and from Similar American Practices, Now and In the Past

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard S. Frase
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
The United States ◽  
European Countries ◽  
High Mass ◽  
Sentencing Guidelines ◽  
The Past ◽  
American States ◽  
Prison Capacity

American jurisdictions seeking to reduce their heavy reliance on prison sentences should emulate European practices, but they should also learn from practices already found in some American states, and in all states at earlier times in our history. European countries make much less use of custodial sentences by employing alternatives such as prosecutorial diversion, fines and day fines as the sole sanction, suspended custodial sentences, and community service or training orders imposed as conditions of probation. These European practices should not be dismissed on the assumption that they are “too foreign”; each of them is well-known in the United States, and their use may be more common than we imagine. If we had better data on these practices – which we should – jurisdictions that aren’t often using them could learn from those that are. There may also be uniquely American practices that help to explain why some states have been able to maintain consistently low prison rates, or to lower their formerly high rates. One such practice is the use of sentencing guidelines combined with parole abolition, developed and monitored by an adequately funded independent sentencing commission, and matching prison use with available prison capacity. Finally, we should learn from our collective past; the United States has not always had extremely high “mass incarceration” rates, nor has it always had rates much higher than those in Europe. Americans should not accept, as the new normal, prison rates five times higher than those that prevailed for fifty years prior to the mid-1970s.

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