Conditions of Confinement: Do Harsher Prison Environments Reduce Political Participation?

• In Event: Exogenous Shocks to Political Participation and Turnout

Brief Overview

I leverage discontinuities in the custody classification scores assigned to incarcerated individuals to study the effect of the harshness of one's prison environment (e.g. minimum versus medium custody) on turnout.

Author

• Jacob Harris, Cornell University