Imprisonment | sciencenewsnet.in

Breaking News

At the Roots of Business Ethics: A New Reading of the Merchant of Venice

Digital Science Teams Up with Huron to Strengthen Research Security and Compliance for Education and Research Clients

American Thyroid Association® Announces 2024-2025 Officers and Board of Directors

Diabetes Drug Appears to Fight Lung Cancer — But Only in Overweight or Obese Patients

Don’t Rock the Boat: The Social-symbolic Work to Confront Ethnic Discrimination in Branches of Professional Service Firms

Virtual replicas for real-world solutions: digital twins in action

Beyond lithium: the rise of sustainable battery alternatives

Novel Gene Therapy Trial for Sickle Cell Disease Launches

Behind the Model: Science Inspired by Legos

Quantifying disease impact and overcoming practical treatment barriers for primary progressive aphasia

26 Nov, 2024

Bail reform law in New York had negligible effect on increases in crime

May 12, 2023 sarah JonasResearch Results

In a new study, researchers evaluated the effect of the law on state crime rates, considering the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although rates of murder, larceny, and motor vehicle theft rose after the bail reform law went into effect, none of the increases were statistically significant when compared with a control group. This suggests that the effect of bail reform on crime rate increases was negligible.

Offering medications for opioid addiction to incarcerated individuals leads to decrease in overdose deaths

April 14, 2023 sarah JonasResearch Results

New research from Boston Medical Center concluded that offering medications to treat opioid addiction in jails and prisons leads to a decrease in overdose deaths. Published in JAMA Network Open, the study also found that treating opioid addiction during incarceration is cost-effective in terms of healthcare costs, incarceration costs, and deaths avoided.