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Interesting paper gives another perspective on Pew data

By Douglas A. Berman

Providing a fitting follow-up to this week's Pew Center report, "One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008" (discussed here), is this new article on SSRN titled "Years of Life Lost to Prison: Racial and Gender Gradients in the United States of America."  The piece is authored by an interestingly diverse group of experts, and here is the abstract:Background: The United States has the highest rate of imprisonment of any country in the world. African Americans and Hispanics comprise a disproportionately large share of the prison population. We applied a "prison life expectancy" to specify differences in exposure to imprisonment by gender and race at the population level. Methods: The impact of imprisonment on life expectancy in the United States was measured for each year from 2000 to 2004, and then averaged...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 01, 2008 (boomark / email).