Towards a New Framework for Achieving Decarceration: A Review of the Research on Social Investments

A new research paper from the Square One Project at Columbia University offers, according to the authors, the first comprehensive review of experimental social policy interventions that can end mass incarceration. The paper investigates which interventions into social policy through community-led organizations have been shown to reduce incident incarceration or recidivism.

The authors assert that this review demonstrates that greater investments in healthcare, education, employment, housing and social services – as well as increased scientific rigor in implementation – are in fact needed to effectively decarcerate.

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