A chart showing over half of people in state prisons are written up for disciplinary violations annually, and most are minor violations with harsh punishments

Data Source: Prison Policy Initiative analysis of data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2016 Survey of Prison Inmates. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2025)

This graph originally appeared in Bad Behavior: How prison disciplinary policies manufacture misconduct.

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