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graphic showing the portion of the jails population that is convicted and unconvicted with and without including the tens of thousands of immigration detainees and state/federal prisoners who are also housed in jails

Data Source: Compiled by the Prison Policy Initiative. See Who is in jail? Deep dive and Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2015. (Graph: Peter Wagner, 2015)

This graph originally appeared in Who is in jail? Deep dive.

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