{"id":1775,"date":"2020-08-04T13:56:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2020-08-04T13:56:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:56:23","slug":"go-to-prison-and-live-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1775","title":{"rendered":"Go To Prison and Live Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conventional wisdom is that a stint in prison is, between one thing and another, going to reduce your lifespan.\u00a0 But scholarly inquiry shows this is not true.\u00a0 The opposite is true.\u00a0 See this <a href=\"https:\/\/sentencing.typepad.com\/sentencing_law_and_policy\/2020\/08\/the-effect-of-incarceration-on-mortality.html\">entry<\/a> on Sentencing Law and Policy, the body of which I repeat verbatim below.\u00a0 The research is from Ohio, but I know of no reason to think Ohio is not fairly representative of the nation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This paper analyzes the effect of incarceration on mortality using administrative data from Ohio between 1992 and 2017. Using event study and difference-in-differences approaches, we compare mortality risk across incarcerated and non-incarcerated individuals before and after pre-scheduled releases from prison. Mortality risk halves during the period of incarceration, with large declines in murders, overdoses, and medical causes of death. However, there is no detectable effect on post-release mortality risk, meaning that incarceration increases overall longevity. We estimate that incarceration averts nearly two thousand deaths annually in the US, comparable to the 2014 Medicaid expansion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/t to the estimable Doug Berman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conventional wisdom is that a stint in prison is, between one thing and another, going to reduce your lifespan.\u00a0 But scholarly inquiry shows this is not true.\u00a0 The opposite is true.\u00a0 See this entry on Sentencing Law and Policy, the body of which I repeat verbatim below.\u00a0 The research is from Ohio, but I know of no reason to think Ohio is not fairly representative of the nation. This paper analyzes the effect of incarceration on mortality using administrative data from Ohio between 1992 and 2017. Using event study and difference-in-differences approaches, we compare mortality risk across incarcerated and non-incarcerated individuals before and after pre-scheduled releases from prison. Mortality risk halves during the period of incarceration, with large declines in murders, overdoses, and medical causes of death. However, there is no detectable effect on post-release mortality risk, meaning that incarceration increases overall longevity. We estimate that incarceration averts nearly two thousand deaths annually in the US, comparable to the 2014 Medicaid expansion. H\/t to the estimable Doug Berman. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prisons"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Go To Prison and Live Longer - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1775\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Go To Prison and Live Longer - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The conventional wisdom is that a stint in prison is, between one thing and another, going to reduce your lifespan.\u00a0 But scholarly inquiry shows this is not true.\u00a0 The opposite is true.\u00a0 See this entry on Sentencing Law and Policy, the body of which I repeat verbatim below.\u00a0 The research is from Ohio, but I know of no reason to think Ohio is not fairly representative of the nation. 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