The Price We Pay: Economic Costs of Barriers to Employment for Former Prisoners and People Convicted of Felonies

Cherrie Bucknor and Alan Barber

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Abstract: Despite modest declines in recent years, the large and decades-long blossoming of the prison population ensure that it will take many years before the United States sees a corresponding decrease in the number of former prisoners. Using data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), this report estimates that there were between 14 and 15.8 million working-age people with felony convictions in 2014 of whom between 6.1 and 6.9 million were former prisoners.

JEL-codes: E H J J1 J2 J7 K K4 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2016-06
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