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October 2009, Vol 99, No. 10 | American Journal of Public Health 1746-1752
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.148726

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Compensation for Incarcerated Research Participants: Diverse State Policies Suggest a New Research Agenda

Amy B. Smoyer, MSW, MPA, Kim M. Blankenship, PhD and Brandis Belt, MPH

Amy B. Smoyer is with the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, New Haven, CT. Kim M. Blankenship is with the Department of Sociology and the Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC. At the time of this study, Brandis Belt was with the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Amy B. Smoyer, MSW, MPA, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University, 135 College St, #200, New Haven, CT 06510 (e-mail: amy.smoyer{at}yale.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

Research with prisoners is essential to understanding the incarceration experience and creating interventions to mediate its effects on individual and community health. Policies on research involving incarcerated participants can influence the extent to which researchers are able or willing to conduct prison studies. We attempted to collect data on inmate compensation policies from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. We found that 44% of these jurisdictions allow compensation for inmates who participate in research, with wide variations in terms of the clarity of and ease of access to policy information. Anecdotal data suggest considerable administrative discretion in the implementation of these policies. Further study is needed on how compensation policies are formulated and enacted and their effects on research with prisoners.






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