Data Source: Margo Schlanger, Incidence of court orders, Local jails and state prisons, 1983-2006, Table F, https://incarcerationlaw.com/resources/data-update/#TableF. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer and Andrea Fenster, 2021)
This graph originally appeared in Slamming the Courthouse Door: 25 years of evidence for repealing the Prison Litigation Reform Act.