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Chart showing active pending criminal court cases have grown exponentially since early in the pandemic.

Data Source: Based on the chart "growth of active pending caseloads prior to and during pandemic months" by the Court Statistics Project. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2022)

This graph originally appeared in Untangling why prison & jail populations dropped early in the pandemic.

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