Literature Review and Prison Program Inventory for Seven Great Lakes States

A report by Sarah Lawrence of the Urban Institute includes a literature review on the effectiveness of prison educational, vocational, and work programs. It also contains an inventory of prison programs from seven states in the Great Lakes region. The report provides recommendations for strategic opportunities and policy targets.

Use Cases

• Conduct a meta-analysis on program effectiveness based on the included literature review
• Analyze the availability and types of prison programs based on the seven-state inventory
• Identify policy targets for enhancing prison-based programming based on the report's recommendations

Strengths

• Includes a literature review synthesizing research on program effectiveness
• Contains a concrete inventory of programs across seven states

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

Urban Institute

Collection Method

Literature review and program inventory compilation

Time Range

unknown

Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

Seven states in the Great Lakes region of the United States