Dates: 1/1/2024-12/31/2027
Funder: National Institute of Justice (NIJ)/W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System
Project Team: Spencer G. Lawson (PI), PhD, Gina M. Vincent (Co-I), PhD, and Namita Railkar, MPH
Description: The Law & Psychiatry Program was awarded a National Institute of Justice grant through the W.E.B. Du Bois Program of Research on Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Justice System. The project will focus on building a scalable method for achieving racial and ethnic equity in objective prison classification, which investigators intend to disseminate to correctional agencies nationally via a collaboration with the National Institute of Corrections.
The goals of this four-year project are to collaborate with the Massachusetts Department of Correction to: