[EL] Persons who were registered before incarceration

[Gregory Huber]

Both of these papers (mine) speak to this question, the second more so 
than the first:

1) Gerber, Alan S., Gregory A. Huber, Marc Meredith, Daniel R. Biggers, 
and David J. Hendry. "Can Incarcerated Felons Be (Re)integrated into the 
Political System? Results from a Field Experiment." /American Journal of 
Political Science/, forthcoming.

Abstract: How does America’s high rate of incarceration shape political 
participation? Few studies have examined the direct effects of 
incarceration on patterns of political engagement. Answering this 
question is particularly relevant for the 93% of formerly incarcerated 
individuals who are eligible to vote. Drawing on new administrative data 
from Connecticut, we present evidence from a field experiment showing 
that a simple informational outreach campaign to released felons can 
recover a large proportion of the reduction in participation observed 
following incarceration. The treatment effect estimates imply that 
efforts to reintegrate released felons into the political process can 
substantially reduce the participatory consequences of incarceration.

Links: (Download Paper: On-line Journal 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajps.12166/abstract>)

Note: This paper previously circulated with the title "Felony status, 
Participation, and Political Reintegration: Results from a field 
experiment." Awarded the 2014 Best Paper on Public Policy Award by the 
APSA Public Policy Section.

2) Gerber, Alan S., Gregory A. Huber, Marc Meredith, Daniel R. Biggers, 
and David J. Hendry. 2015. "Does Incarceration Reduce Voting? Evidence 
about the Political Consequences of Spending Time in Prison from 
Pennsylvania and Connecticut."

Abstract: The rise in mass incarceration provides a growing impetus to 
understand the effect that interactions with the criminal justice system 
have on political participation. Although some states impose 
restrictions on voting by former felons, a large number of released 
prisoners who are legally eligible to vote nevertheless participate at 
very low rates. We use administrative data on voting and interactions 
with the criminal justice system from Pennsylvania and Connecticut to 
examine whether the association between incarceration and reduced voting 
is causal. Several strategies are employed to investigate the 
possibility that the observed strong negative correlation between 
incarceration and voting might result from differences across 
individuals that both lead to incarceration and low participation. We 
find that as this selection bias issue is addressed, the estimated 
effect of serving time in prison on voting falls dramatically and for 
some research designs vanishes entirely.

Links: (Download Paper: Local PDF 
<http://huber.research.yale.edu/materials/51_paper.pdf>)

Note: Portions of this paper previously circulated with the title 
"Felony status, Participation, and Political Reintegration."



On 2/1/2016 10:04 PM, Ciara C Torres-Spelliscy wrote:
> A student asked this question and I did not have a ready answer. But I thought someone on the list might know:
>
> Have there been any studies about what percentage of convicted felons were actually registered voters before they were incarcerated?
>
> Thank you
> Ciara
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> Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
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