Line charts showing that staffing in state prisons and local jails declined dramatically starting in 2020

Data Source: The Census Bureau's Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2024)

This graph originally appeared in Why jails and prisons can’t recruit their way out of the understaffing crisis.

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