Data Source: Prison Policy Initiative, Beyond the Count and Nowhere to Go; Pew Charitable Trusts, More than 1 in 9 People With Co-Occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders are Arrested Annually (2023); Laurence Roy et al., Criminal Behavior and Victimization Among Homeless Individuals with Severe Mental Illness: A Systematic Review. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2023)
This graph originally appeared in Seeking shelter from mass incarceration: Fighting criminalization with Housing First.
Events
- March 19, 2025:
Join Prison Policy Initiative’s Advocacy Department at 1 PM EST on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, for a webinar about understanding recidivism. We will cover strategies from our recidivism toolkit, including an overview of recidivism statistics and what they really mean, how to combat the “Willie Horton” effect, and ways that advocates can transform the narrative around reentry to make it less focused on negative outcomes and more focused on the ways that returning citizens contribute to their communities.
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