The Prisoner Reentry Institute's upcoming Occasional Series is on Thursday, November 10, 2011 and is entitled Recidivism: What Does Prison Have to Do With It? The event will feature Dr. Daniel Nagin, the Teresa and H. John Heinz III University Professor of Public Policy and Statistics at Carnegie-Mellon University, presenting his research on The Effect of Incarceration on Re-Offending: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Pennsylvania. The study uses a large, recent sample of U.S. offenders to estimate the effect of incarceration on post-release criminality, and accesses inter-judge variation in the use of incarceration. Respondents commenting on the finding that there is no discernable impact of incarceration on recidivisim include:

Martin F. Horn is the Executive Director of the Permanent Sentencing Commission for New York State. Mr. Horn previously served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction and Department of Probation, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Correction, and as Executive Director of the New York State Division of Parole.

William T. Martin is an attorney who has been actively involved in the criminal justice system and community activism over the past 30 years. Mr. Martin is a former New York State Supreme Court Justice, prosecutor and is presently engaged in private practice as a defense attorney representing clients in criminal and civil rights cases before state and federal courts.

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