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 The Impacts of Restrictive Housing on Inmate Behavior, Mental Health, and Recidivism, and Prison Systems and Personnel
Award Information
Awardee
              FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
Award #
              2016-IJ-CX-0014
Funding Category
              Competitive Discretionary
Location
                    TALLAHASSEE, FL
Congressional District
              2
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2016
Total funding (to date)
              $730,615
Original Solicitation
              Research and Evaluation on Institutional Corrections
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2016, $730,615)
The purpose of the proposed study by the Florida State University research team is to inform scholarship and policy on restrictive housing, and the specific goal is to   contribute to efforts to understand the impacts of restrictive housing on inmates and prison systems and their personnel. To
achieve this goal and contribute to the broader mission of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the study's objectives are: (1) to provide policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and the public with empirical information about the impacts of restrictive housing on inmate misconduct, mental health, including self-injury, and recidivism, (2) to provide these groups with information about whether restrictive housing impacts may vary by type of exposure (e.g., duration of time in or frequency of exposure to the housing, single-cell vs. double-cell confinement) and among groups of inmates (e.g., mentally ill, females, minorities, and younger inmates), and (3) to provide insight into how restrictive housing is used and may impact prison systems and personnel as well as how its effectiveness might be enhanced and what alternatives exist that may be more effective and cost-efficient than this specialized type of housing.
Data will include information from over 250,000 cases from the Florida Department of Corrections on inmate characteristics, prior criminal record and instant offense, and in-prison and post-release outcomes, as well as information from focus groups with and surveys of prison administrators and personnel. The administrative records data will be analyzed using propensity score matching analyses and treatment-only multilevel analyses to estimate restrictive housing impacts on inmates.
The focus group data will be examined for themes and insights about restrictive housing impacts on inmates and on the prison system and its personnel. The survey data will be examined using descriptive and multivariate regression analyses to identify and explain variation in prison administrator and personnel views about the impacts of restrictive housing on inmates, the prison system, and prison personnel. The short- and intermediate-term outcomes include the timely submission of all research-related products (e.g., data sets, draft and final summary overview of
research results, interim and final progress and financial reports, and performance measures). In addition, the research team will seek to publish articles in peer-reviewed, scientific journals, and in book chapters, briefs, and reports, to present at scientific and policy- and practitioner-oriented conferences, and to disseminate results through publications, presentations, the FSU web site, crime and justice organizations, and media outlets. ca/ncf



  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      A Within-Person Test of the Impact of Extended Solitary Confinement on Mental Health Functioning and Service Use
                  Captives of the “Society of Captives”: Working in Solitary Confinement
                  Solitary Confinement and Prison Personnel: Emotional numbing as a response to work in extended restrictive housing
                  Work in Long-Term Restrictive Housing and Prison Personnel Perceptions of the Humanity of People Who Are Incarcerated
                  Tracing changes in behavior across the extended solitary confinement process
                  What Do We Really Know About the Prevalence of Restrictive Housing? Illuminating the "Dark Figure" of the Most Extreme Forms of Incarceration
                  Extended Solitary Confinement for Managing Prison Systems: Placement Disparities and Their Implications
                  Managing Prisons Through Extended Solitary Confinement: A Necessary Approach or a Signal of Prison System Failure?
                  Revisiting and Unpacking the Mental Illness and Solitary Confinement Relationship
                  Views From the Inside: Insights About Restrictive Housing From Prison System Officials, Officers, and Staff
                  Women in Solitary Confinement: Relationships, Pseudofamilies, and the Limits of Control
                  The Impacts of Restrictive Housing on Inmate Behavior, Mental Health, and Recidivism, and Prison Systems Personnel

  
Date Created: September 12, 2016
    
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