Center for Justice, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.
McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Sep 6;119(36):e2123201119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2123201119. Epub 2022 Aug 29.
Using public housing developments as a strategic site, our research documents a distinct pathway linking disadvantaged context to incarceration-the public-housing-to-prison pipeline. Focusing on New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) housing developments as a case study, we find that incarceration rates in NYCHA tracts are 4.6 times higher than those in non-NYCHA tracts. More strikingly, 94% of NYCHA tracts report rates above the median value for non-NYCHA tracts. Moreover, 17% of New York State's incarcerated population originated from just 372 NYCHA tracts. Compared with non-NYCHA tracts, NYCHA tracts had higher shares of Black residents and were significantly more disadvantaged. This NYCHA disadvantage in concentrated incarceration is also robust at different spatial scales. Our findings have implications for policies and programs to disrupt community-based pipelines to prison.
利用公共住房开发作为战略地点，我们的研究记录了一条将劣势环境与监禁联系起来的明确途径——公共住房到监狱的管道。我们专注于纽约市住房管理局（NYCHA）的住房开发作为案例研究，发现 NYCHA 地段的监禁率比非 NYCHA 地段高 4.6 倍。更引人注目的是，94%的 NYCHA 地段的报告率高于非 NYCHA 地段的中位数。此外，17%的纽约州被监禁人口来自仅 372 个 NYCHA 地段。与非 NYCHA 地段相比，NYCHA 地段的黑人居民比例更高，而且明显处于劣势地位。这种集中监禁的 NYCHA 劣势在不同的空间尺度上也是稳健的。我们的研究结果对打破社区到监狱的管道的政策和方案具有重要意义。
