Data Source: Median annual incomes are based on our 2016 analysis in Detaining The Poor, adjusted to 2024 dollars and rounded to the nearest ten dollars. The median felony bail amount was reported by Bureau of Justice Statistics in Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties, 2009, Table 16. (Graph: Brian Nam-Sonenstein, 2024)
This graph originally appeared in Shadow Budgets: How mass incarceration steals from the poor to give to the prison.
Events
- September 14, 2024:
Our advocacy department will host a workshop at the MacArthur Justice Center’s Realizing Releases convening. The workshop will provide strategies for investigating state parole systems.
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