Cunningham, Scott, 1975-2020-09-042020-09-042020-052020-04-28May 2020https://hdl.handle.net/2104/11005I examine the effects of a 1980 Texas District Court ruling that ruled the conditions in the Texas prison system unconstitutional. In particular, I analyze its effects on crime and incarceration. I use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy to estimate these effects, and I implement the synthetic control method of Abadie, Diamond, and Hainmueller (2010) as a robustness check.application/pdfenDifference-in-differences. Synthetic control.ThesisWorldwide access2020-09-04