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 Understanding Incarceration and Re-Entry Experiences of Female Inmates and their Children: The Women''s Prison Inmate Networks Study (WO-PINS)
Award Information
Awardee
              PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
Award #
              2016-MU-MU-0011
Funding Category
              Competitive Discretionary
Location
                    UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
Congressional District
              12
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2016
Total funding (to date)
              $685,857
Original Solicitation
              Research and Evaluation on Institutional Corrections
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2016, $685,857)
This proposal will fill three critical knowledge gaps identified by the National Research Council in their report on the causes and consequences of mass incarceration in the United States: (1) the absence of even basic information on modern conditions of confinement, (2) the potential heterogeneity in incarceration effects across individual and institutional contexts, and (3) the limited understanding of any association between maternal incarceration and child well-being. Specifically, the proposed project will leverage strong relationships with the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and the Pennsylvania Department of corrections to explore the prison and re-entry experiences of female inmates incarcerated in three Ohio and Pennsylvania prison units. In Phase 1, investigators will reveal each units' informal organization and culture using innovative social network data that maps the unit's friendship network, status hierarchy, and romantic ties. Network analyses will test hypotheses for the sources of prison status and the associations between inmate social position and outcomes such as prison victimization, mental health, official misconduct, and family visitation. In Phase 2, parole-eligible inmate respondents in the two Pennsylvania prisons will be administered semi-structured qualitative and network interviews to garner their future xpectations, social capital, and preparations for community re-entry. Women's expected social networks provide a unique glimpse into the re-entry process that can later be compared to actual networks upon release. This phase of the project has clear implications for family reintegration, employment, post-release program participation, and relapse/recidivism. Contemporaneously, child and caregiver interviews will be conducted for inmate respondents who are mothers. These interviews will capture the well-being, fears, aspirations, and preparations of inmates' families and surrogate parents prior to prison release. During Phase 3, investigators will conduct two post-release community interviews of Phase 2 respondents to understand how the previously imprisoned women, their children, and caregivers have adjusted to life after prison and if their envisioned plans came to fruition. Additionally, analyses of longterm arrest and reincarceration will be conducted for all surveyed prison units. The goals of this phase will be to identify and drill down on the mechanisms underlying successful prison re-entry and criminal desistance. Aided by an advisory board of social scientists, correctional practitioners, and child advocates, the project's data and products will test theoretically-driven hypotheses while also informing prison-based and community programs aimed at smoothing the inmate re-entry experience and reducing negative child and inmate health and behavioral outcomes. ca/ncf



  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Social Support, Victimization, and Stress in a Women’s Prison: The Role of in-Prison Friendship for Reducing Perceptions of Stress
                  Social Support, Victimization, and Stress in a Women’s Prison: The Role of in-Prison Friendship for Reducing Perceptions of Stress
                  Charting the hidden City: Collecting prison social network data
                  Mothers Inside and Out? Pseudo-Families and Motherhood in a Women's Prison
                  Understanding Incarceration and Re-Entry Experiences of Female Inmates and their Children: The Women’s Prison Inmate Networks Study (WO-PINS)
                  In the eye of the beholder: Meaning and structure of informal status in women's and men's prisons
                  Trusting the Untrustworthy: The Social Organization of Trust Among Incarcerated Women
                  Social Networks and Health in a Prison Unit




  
Grant-Funded Datasets
        
                      https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38003.v1

  
Date Created: September 19, 2016
    
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