Association of census tract-level incarceration rate and life expectancy in New York State.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Jail incarceration rates are positively associated with mortality at the county level. However, incarceration rates vary within counties, limiting the generalisability of this finding to neighbourhoods, where incarceration may have the greatest effects.

Methods

We performed a cross-sectional analysis of census tract-level state imprisonment rates in New York State (2010) and life expectancy data from the US Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project (2010-2015). We modelled fixed-effects for counties and controlled for tract-level poverty, racial makeup, education, and population density from the American Community Survey (2010-2014), and violent crime data from the New York City Police Department (2010). We also examined interactions between incarceration rate

SUBMITTER: Holaday LW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9052201 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature