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Report Finds Prior Incarceration Hinders Upward Economic Mobility
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2011
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2011, page 26
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Statistics/Trends,
Prisoner Privileges,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism.
Location:
United States of America.
The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Economic Mobility Project and Public Safety Performance Project issued a collaborative report in September 2010 on the impact of incarceration on economic mobility. The report found a strong negative effect of incarceration on upward economic mobility not only for former prisoners but also ...
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