Professor Megan Stevenson of the University of Virginia School of Law and her team have received a $200,000 grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to study the hidden long-term effects of incarceration.
The two-year project will evaluate how incarceration impacts a wide range of personal and societal outcomes. The study, called “The Long Run Impacts of Incarceration: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design,” will track long-term measures of economic well-being, such as educational attainment, eviction rates, earnings, employment, subprime borrowing rates and credit access.
Stevenson, an economist and criminal justice scholar, said poor prison conditions in Virginia inspired the project.
“People are stacked in small cells way beyond capacity, facilities are without air conditioning in hot summers, and without sufficient heat in the winter. The violence can be rampant,” she said. “Most prisoners have virtually no access to higher education or any other way to prepare themselves for life after release. We wanted to know what the long-term impacts of this experience are.”
The research team includes Yale University economics professor John Eric Humphries, University of Pennsylvania criminology professor Aurélie Ouss and Harvard University economics professor Winnie van Dijk.
By unearthing the connections between incarceration, barriers to reentry and social ills, the team hopes to provide prosecutors, judges and lawmakers with a body of evidence that will help...
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