The Impact of Federal Prison Industries Employment on the Recidivism Outcomes of Female Inmates

Richmond, Kerry M.

doi:10.1080/07418825.2012.668924

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“…Since our study is about sourcing digitally-enabled business services, it is important to note that most of the empirical studies are dated prior to the FPI's business services group in the mid-2000s, thus none of these studies specifically address prison employment programs for this kind of work. Richmond [2012] is the newest research, yet her study was unable to differentiate the type of work women were doing in UNICOR. We did not find any prior studies that examined inmates who were performing digitally-enabled services.…”

Section: Us Adult Correctionsmentioning

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“…Reviewed four meta-analyses on adult educational, vocational, and work programs and found recidivism rates decreased by 1% to 10%. Richmond, 2008Richmond, , 2012 Ten-year study on recidivism on 19,456 female inmates from 1993 to 2003…”

Section: Impact Sourcing Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A measurement of the rate at which released offenders commit other crimes, either by arrest or conviction3 Richmond [2008Richmond [ , 2012 did find that UNICOR participants are 13.4 percent less likely than nonparticipants to be re-arrested and 25.2 percent less likely to return to custody, but after adjusting for pre-selection bias using a propensity score methodology, the difference evaporated. In other words, females who sought and received UNICOR jobs have different characteristics than those females who did not seek or receive UNICOR jobs.…”

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Impact Sourcing: Employing Prison Inmates to Perform Digitally-enabled Business Services

Lacity¹,

Rottman²,

Carmel³

2014

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Impact sourcing is the practice of training and hiring marginalized individuals (people who normally would have few opportunities for good employment) to provide information technology (IT), business process, or other digitallyenabled services. Perhaps no other population is more marginalized than prisoners. Worldwide there are over six million prisoners, of which over two million are U.S. prisoners. In the U.S., 95 percent of inmates will one day be released. Prison employment programs are interventions aimed at preparing inmates to reenter society. We studied a special type of prison employment program: the hiring and training of prisoners to perform business services using a computer. The impact of prison sourcing needs to be understood in two distinct time periods: while in prison and after prison. Based on a case study at a U.S. Federal Correctional Institution employing 140 inmates in prison sourcing, we found evidence that prison sourcing for business services positively affects the inmates while in prison. The main benefits are good financial compensation, work habit development, productively occupying time, development of business skills, and the elevation of self-efficacy and status. We have almost no data about the impact on future prospects and explain why this gap happens.

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Rottman²,

Carmel³

2014

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“…Much has been made of the importance of offenders undertaking work and training in prison in preparation for their return to the community (MacKenzie, 2006; Richmond, 2014). While studies question the causal association between re-entry employment programs and positive employment outcomes for offenders (e.g., Visher, Winterfield, & Coggeshall, 2005), other researchers have pointed to the importance of offenders’ attitudes toward these programs as a potentially positive influence on their re-entry success (Bushway & Apel, 2012).…”

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Finding and Keeping a Job

Cherney

Fitzgerald

2014

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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Finding stable employment has been identified as one of the best predictors of post-release success among prisoners. However, offenders face a number of challenges in securing employment when released from prison. This article examines processes that shape the abilities and motivations of parolees to secure gainful employment by examining interview data collected from parolees in Queensland, Australia (n = 50). We explore the role of social networks and commercial employment providers in helping parolees find work, the perceived value of institutional work and training, and the meanings, challenges, and impact of managing the disclosure of one's criminal past to employers. Findings highlight that the role and influence of employment on a parolee's reintegration is conditional on his or her supportive social networks, ability to manage stigma, and personal changes in identity, which elevate the importance of work in a parolee's life. Our findings also show how employment provides opportunities for offenders to self-construct and articulate new identities.

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“…Contemporary studies that do measure the effects of employment on women's self-reported offending and official recidivism are mixed and do not offer much insight into the moderating role of age. While some studies have found that employment status reduces women's offending [22,32,119], other research suggests that having a job in and of itself does not necessarily lead to offending cessation, largely because a host of other criminogenic social and psychological factors has not yet been addressed [9,10,15,99].…”

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The Effects of Age at Prison Release on Women’s Desistance Trajectories: a Mixed-Method Analysis

Kerrison

Bachman

Paternoster

2016

J Dev Life Course Criminology

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to measure the effect that age has on women's gendered prisoner reentry experiences and the likelihood of desisting from crime and substance abuse. This study also seeks to evaluate the applicability of Paternoster and Bushway's (2009) Identity Theory of Desistance (ITD) for a contemporary, all-female sample. Methods This mixed-method study makes use of official arrest data for 218 women leaving Delaware prisons in the mid 1990s, to create group-based offending trajectory models. A representative subsample of 118 women was interviewed between 2009 and 2011 and asked to conceptualize the mechanisms that led to their desistance or persistence in offending. Results Multinomial logistic regression analyses reveal that for some of the sample, age at the time of release from prison has a positive effect on the likelihood that women will belong to a desisting trajectory group rather than the most deviant reference group. Interview narratives demonstrate that in navigating the post-incarceration gendered experiences of securing employment, family reunification, and substance abuse recovery, maturity, clarity about one's personal responsibility for linked failures, and a desire to transform one's identity were significant factors that preceded the capacity to excel in those reentry domains. Conclusions These findings lend support for the applicability of ITD for women's desistance experiences. As older women appear to express a reentry goal orientation that diverges from that of their younger counterparts, gender-responsive rehabilitation J Dev Life Course Criminology (2016) agendas must also include programming that increases the likelihood that participants will connect failures sooner so that the prosocial benefits of a healthy identity change can be enjoyed for longer.

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The Impact of Federal Prison Industries Employment on the Recidivism Outcomes of Female Inmates

Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

Impact Sourcing: Employing Prison Inmates to Perform Digitally-enabled Business Services

Impact Sourcing: Employing Prison Inmates to Perform Digitally-enabled Business Services

Finding and Keeping a Job

The Effects of Age at Prison Release on Women’s Desistance Trajectories: a Mixed-Method Analysis

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