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Pew: Incarceration reduces employment, long-term economic growth

A new study from the Pew Charitable Trusts quantifies a lamentable trend that's retarding the economy and employment for millions of Americans: Incarceration strongly correlates to reduced employment and long-term earnings. What's more, the economic harms from imprisonment extend to inmates' children. Here's a remarkable excerpt from Pew's press release:Incarceration reduces former inmates? earnings by 40 percent and limits their future economic mobility, according to a new Pew report, Collateral Costs: Incarceration?s Effect on Economic Mobility. This is a growing challenge now that 1 in every 28 children in America has a parent behind bars, up from 1 in 125 just 25 years ago.?People who break the law need to be held accountable and pay their debt to society,? said Adam Gelb, director of the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 01, 2010 (boomark / email).