How Unregulated Is the U.S. Labor Market? The Penal System as a Labor Market Institution
The unemployment rate in the U.S. would be higher if fewer people were incarcerated. By analyzing employment and prison data, this...
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Economics of Conviction
- Apr 13, 2021
Locked Out of the Labor Market? State-Level Hidden Sentences and the Labor Market Outcomes...
States with more and harsher collateral consequences are more likely to negatively impact employment outcomes for people with criminal...
- Apr 13, 2021
Incarceration and Stratification
Prisons generate and perpetuate social inequalities in various forms, including employment discrimination, health and education...
- Apr 13, 2021
Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar...
Historians have not adequately assessed and analyzed the impact of post 1960 mass incarceration. Divided into three parts, the author...
- Apr 13, 2021
Against Punishment: Centering Work, Wages, and Uneven Development in Mapping the Carceral State
In eastern Kentucky, prisons (like coal) serve as responses to the cycles and problems of capitalism, including deindustrialization,...
- Apr 13, 2021
Exclusion and Extraction: Criminal Justice Contact and the Reallocation of Labor
The carceral state is a highly functioning labor market institution that both excludes people from the labor market and extracts labor....
- Apr 13, 2021
“Still Doin' Time:” Clamoring for Work in the Day Labor Industry
The day-labor industry perpetuates socioeconomic inequities through its regulation of formerly incarcerated people, while positioning...
- Apr 13, 2021
The Financial Cost of a Criminal Conviction: Context and Consequences
The use of Legal Financial Obligations (i.e., court fines and supervision fees to child support payments), further impedes the upward...
- Apr 13, 2021
Carceral Chicago: Making the Ex-offender Employability Crisis
Illinois prisons function as labor-market institutions, designed - at least in part - to specifically exclude Black men from economic...
- Apr 13, 2021
A "Labor History" of Mass Incarceration
In order to fully understand the costs of mass incarceration, research on the labor market effects of the carceral state must be truly...