Data Source: California Board of State and Community Corrections Jail Population Trends (March 27, 2023), Table 41; California Policy Lab's Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco (2022); Harris County's Jail Population History website; and "Harris County electronic monitor population skyrockets to nearly 4,000," as reported by Mario Diaz in Click2Houston (2021). (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2023)
This graph originally appeared in Not an alternative: The myths, harms, and expansion of pretrial electronic monitoring.