Prison for the Poor
Channel: New Economic Thinking
Date: 2021-01-27

Anita Alves Pena discusses her research into the relationship between mass incarceration and inequality through stratification economics. Pena's research finds that areas with higher income inequality have higher rates of incarceration and that these rates vary when broken down by racial and ethnic groups.

Learn more about Dr. Pena's work at https://economics.colostate.edu/author/aalves/