HELP US END MASS INCARCERATION The Prison Policy Initiative uses research, advocacy, and organizing to dismantle mass incarceration. We’ve been in this movement for 22 years, thanks to individual donors like you.

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map showing the number and percentage of the state's prisoners that were in a private prison at year end 1999

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners 1999. (Map: Peter Wagner, 2004)

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