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Ex-offenders and the Labor Market
Type Report Format PDF Author Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Year 2010 Related Sectors Public Safety Topic Health Equity Alliance

"Ex-offenders and the Labor Market"... warns that unless the criminal justice system is reformed, the proportion of ex-offenders in the working age population will continue to rise and exacerbate the unemployment rate and losses in economic output.

“Since high levels of incarceration are not the result of high levels of crime (and since the research consensus also suggests incarceration has a relatively small effect on lowering crime), changes in sentencing today can greatly reduce the size of the ex-offender population in the future,” the report says.

Text above from related item, http://newhavenregister.com/articles/2010/11/17/news/doc4ce36082cc830222359697.txt

We use Bureau of Justice Statistics data to estimate that, in 2008, the United States had between 12 and 14 million ex-offenders of working age. Because a prison record or felony conviction greatly lowers ex-offenders’ prospects in the labor market, we estimate that this large population lowered the total male employment rate that year by 1.5 to 1.7 percentage points. In GDP terms, these reductions in employment cost the U.S. economy between $57 and $65 billion in lost output.

Text above from http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/ex-offenders-and-the-labor-market

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