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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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Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Data Source: Sex Offender Civil Commitment Programs Network Annual Survey, 2022. Four jurisdictions did not participate in the 2022 survey: Nebraska's count is from 2018, New Hampshire's from 2020, South Carolina's from 2021, and the federal Bureau of Prisons' from 2017. (Map: Wendy Sawyer, 2023)
This map originally appeared in What is civil commitment? Recent report raises visibility of this shadowy form of incarceration.
