Prison Policy

Latest research

1. Prison abolition

   • Anna Terwiel
   • Elizabeth Jordie Davies
   • Sarah Tyson

   in Contemporary Political Theory

   Article Open access 23 February 2026

2. AI in prison education: a call for ethical reflection

   • Huay Ling Tay

   in AI & SOCIETY

   Article 21 February 2026

3. DYNTRACE-SEC: adaptive security for containerized environments via load-aware segmentation and trust-driven policy specification and enforcement

   • Seyed Hossein Ahmadpanah
   • Meghdad Mirabi

   in The Journal of Supercomputing

   Article 18 February 2026

   

4. Die psychiatrische Versorgungssituation psychisch kranker Straftäter in Haft – Ergebnisse einer Umfrage der DGPPN

   • Nancy Thilo
   • Norbert Dahmen
   • Jürgen L. Müller

   in Der Nervenarzt

   Article 16 February 2026

   

5. Does carceral status signal fitness for jury service? An exploratory study of the state’s role in shaping public opinion

   • James M. Binnall
   • Olivia K. H. Smith
   • Cassandra Flick

   in Crime, Law and Social Change

   Article Open access 14 February 2026

6. Deconstructing Trauma: How Military Experiences Affect Veteran Prison Misconduct

   • Mark A. Morgan
   • Matthew W. Logan

   in Psychiatric Quarterly

   Article Open access 13 February 2026

7. Delivering virtual cardiac rehabilitation within correctional facilities to fulfill the decree of Estelle versus Gamble

   • Martin E. Matsumura
   • Favour Nelson
   • Bryan Martin

   in npj Digital Medicine

   Article Open access 12 February 2026

8. Zero-shot reinforcement learning for multi-domain task-oriented dialogue policy

   • Yuan Ren
   • Si Chen
   • Ming-Tian Peng

   in Frontiers of Computer Science

   Article 12 February 2026

9. China to punish universities that fail to sanction research misconduct

   • Mohana Basu

   in Nature

   Article 11 February 2026

   

10. Rauchen im Justiz- und Maßregelvollzug – ein zentrales, aber vernachlässigtes Thema der Gesundheitsfürsorge

    • Heino Stöver
    • Ulla-Britt Klankwarth

    in Forensische Psychiatrie, Psychologie, Kriminologie

    Article Open access 10 February 2026

11. Validating the Brief Anger and Aggression Questionnaire (BAAQ) on a Correctional Population: Evidence from Minnesota

    • Grant Duwe
    • Valerie A. Clark

    in American Journal of Criminal Justice

    Article 06 February 2026

    

12. Security by documentation? characterizing GitHub SECURITY.md policy and their adoption in Python libraries

    • Morakot Choetkiertikul
    • Sushawapak Kancharoendee
    • Thanwadee Sunetnanta

    in Empirical Software Engineering

    Article Open access 06 February 2026

    

13. Caught in the Cycle: How Multiple Experiences of Post-Carceral Reentry Shape the Life Course of Returning Men

    • Johnna Christian
    • Arlana K. Henry
    • Raven A. Lewis

    in Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology

    Article Open access 04 February 2026

14. Concerns about Reentry: Examining Pre-Prison and In-Prison Determinants Across Multiple Life Domains

    • Leen Vandevelde
    • Louis Favril
    • Dorien Brosens

    in Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology

    Article 03 February 2026

15. Agequake: ältere inhaftierte Personen – zwei Forschungsprojekte und ein Öffentlichkeitsprojekt, eine Übersicht

    • Helene Seaward
    • Tenzin Wangmo
    • Bernice Elger

    in Forensische Psychiatrie, Psychologie, Kriminologie

    Article 03 February 2026

16. Effects of a Relapse Prevention Program on motivation, relapse, and stress management in correctional settings

    • Abdón Martín-Coca
    • José Antonio Martín Herrero

    in Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

    Article Open access 02 February 2026

17. Strategic enforcement of linear payoff relations in a three-player strictly alternating prisoner’s dilemma game

    • Mohammad A. Taha
    • Samira S. Mersal
    • M. G. Brikaa

    in Scientific Reports

    Article Open access 01 February 2026

    

18. The Process of Reintegration: From Prison To Conditional Release

    • José Cid
    • Esther De la Encarnación

    in Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology

    Article Open access 30 January 2026

19. Perceived neighborhood safety and firearm secure storage: findings from the 2024 behavioral risk factor surveillance system

    • Alexander Testa
    • Karyn Fu
    • Jason M. Nagata

    in Injury Epidemiology

    Article Open access 30 January 2026

20. Resilience and associated factors within the mental health profile of incarcerated adults in Portugal: a cross-sectional study

    • Mariana Alfaiate
    • Lino Ramos
    • Francisco Sampaio

    in BMC Psychiatry

    Article Open access 29 January 2026

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