{"id":133303,"date":"2018-01-22T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=133303"},"modified":"2018-03-30T11:13:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:13:37","slug":"inmate-labor-policy-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/01\/inmate-labor-policy-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate Labor Policy and Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-133304 alignleft img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/S-Kennedy-cropped-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stephanie Kennedy\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/S-Kennedy-cropped-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/S-Kennedy-cropped-768x921.jpg 768w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/S-Kennedy-cropped-854x1024.jpg 854w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/S-Kennedy-cropped-350x420.jpg 350w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/300;\" \/>Assistant professor of social work\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssw.uconn.edu\/faculty-listing\/stephanie-kennedy-ph-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Stephanie Kennedy<\/a> is working\u00a0with MSW student Stephen Haynes\u00a0on a new study of inmate labor policy\u00a0and practice in Connecticut and North\u00a0Carolina. They aim to describe the\u00a0types of jobs inmates perform, consider\u00a0if a gender gap in wages exists, and\u00a0lay the foundation for a national study.\u00a0In a separate project, Dr. Kennedy\u00a0and graduate student Kenyatta\u00a0Thompson are developing a measure\u00a0of community stigma toward men and\u00a0women who have been to jail or prison.\u00a0This spring they will conduct focus\u00a0groups of recently released men and\u00a0women to explore their experience of\u00a0this stigma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Kennedy is researching the types of jobs Connecticut inmates perform and\u00a0lay the foundation for a national study.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":133304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1870],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1869],"class_list":["post-133303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ssw"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 00:16:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/133304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133303"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=133303"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=133303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}