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Corrigendum to “A Viable Alternative? Alternatives to Incarceration Across Several Federal Districts"

Topic: 
Volume 85 Number 2
Date: 
September 2021
Abstract: 

The authors of “A Viable Alternative? Alternatives to Incarceration Across Several Federal Districts,” which appeared in the June 2019 issue of Federal Probation (Vol. 83, no. 1), have learned that due to a previously unknown data issue in the administrative case management data system (known as PACTS) from which they drew their data for the study, the measure of prior convictions used within the estimation of the propensity score was deemed unreliable. The authors provide a new set of tables that eliminate the incorrect data, and they explain the effect of eliminating that data on their study results.