Roundtable: The Economic Impact of Mass Incarceration

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Sessions

Abstract/Description

Starting with the Great Recession in 2008, the fiscal impact of incarceration became a key aspect of policy discussions, helping to drive some of the reductions in incarceration that started in 2009. Yet the broader economic impact on individuals, families, neighborhoods, communities, and urban areas, is still not fully understood. In this roundtable we will discuss new research measuring the cost of incarceration on families, what we know now about how these costs contribute to wealth inequality and questions of economic injustice, what still needs further research attention to be fully understood, and how these new findings can help spur further policy change.

Sub Unit

• Area XIV. Roundtables

Individual Presentations

• We Can't Afford It: Mass Incarceration and the Family Tax - Felicity Rose, FWD.us

Discussants

• Christopher Wildeman, Duke University

• Garrett Baker, Duke University

• Bianca Tylek, Worth Rises

• Josh Page, University of Minnesota