Symposium Resources

Kent State University and Policy Matters Ohio held an insightful and provocative symposium about the economics of criminal justice on April 10^th, 2003. Some extremely useful materials were distributed at the symposium, and some of the participants have written excellent papers on criminal justice issues discussed at the symposium. Here are links and references to some of those materials. Please check back at this page periodically, as more resources will be added as they are acquired.

Cleveland Plain Dealer Op-Ed piece on the Symposium

“Ohioans Pay For Prison Now – And Later”

April 7, 2003

Cleveland Plain Dealer review of the Symposium

"Inmates Begin Exodus From State Prisons"

April 27, 2003

Budgets & Priorities

Fritz Rauschenberg, Sr. Policy Researcher, State of Ohio

• “Monitoring Sentence Reform”  http://www.policymattersohio.org/pdf/monitoring_sentence_reform.pdf

 Vincent Schiraldi, President, Justice Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.

• “Cutting Correctly: New Prison Policies for Times of Fiscal Crisis” http://www.justicepolicy.org/cutting/cutting_main.html

• “From Classrooms to Cell Blocks: A National Perspective” http://justicepolicy.org/classrms_national.htm

Equality & Opportunity

Bruce Western, Prof., Princeton University

• “Inequality in Lifetime Risks of Incarceration.” (With Becky Pettit)   http://www.princeton.edu/~western/life5.pdf

• “Incarceration and the Bonds Among Parents in Fragile Families.”  (Revised, with Leonard Lopoo and Sara McLanahan) http://www.princeton.edu/~western/jail4.pdf 

• “Black-White Earnings Inequality, Employment Rates, and Incarceration.” (Revised, with Becky Pettit) http://www.princeton.edu/~western/rubin08.pdf

 Wornie Reed, Prof., Cleveland State University

• http://urban.csuohio.edu/ucrc/researchreports.htm 

• http://urban.csuohio.edu/ucrc/journals.htm

• http://urban.csuohio.edu/ucrc/reprints.htm

Keynote Speaker

Andrew Lichtenstein, Photojournalist, New York

• "Images of Prison & Justice" http://www.auroraphotos.com/bin/Photolist?dt=38&st=Associate

Reentry Programs

Lateefah Simon, Executive Director, Center for Young Women's Development, San Francisco

• “As We All Unite” http://www.cywd.org/gallery/all_unite/lateefah.html

• “That’s All She Wrote” http://www.cywd.org/gallery/she_wrote/lateefah.html

Innovations: Community Incarceration,

Drug Courts, and RECLAIM

Nancy Marion, Prof., University of Akron

• “Community Corrections In Ohio: Cost Savings and Program Effectiveness” http://www.policymattersohio.org/Corrections.htm

Kathleen Hale, Sr. Researcher, Oriana House, Akron

• See symposium PowerPoint presentation

Linda Modry, Ohio Department of Youth Services, RECLAIM Ohio

Charles C. Cavano, Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court

• See Edward Latessa’s report “A Statewide Evaluation of the RECLAIM Ohio Initiative”   http://www.uc.edu/criminaljustice/Project%20Reports/Reclaim.PDF

Prisons as Economic Development

 Tracy Huling, Co-director, National Resources Center on Prisons and Communities, Prison Reform Advocacy Center, Cincinnati

• “Building a Prison Economy in Rural America” http://www.360degrees.org/stories/storyGroup4/huling_chapter.pdf

*The symposium also featured sheriffs, corrections officers, state senators, academics, and other researchers as panelists and speakers.