bar charts showing that efforts to reduce prison populations exclude people convicted of offenses classified as violent, so the percent of people serving for a \

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics' Prisoners in 2010 Appendix Table 16A and Prisoners in 2020 — Statistical Tables Table 15. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2024)

This graph originally appeared in Contending with Carveouts: How and Why to Resist Charge-Based Exclusions in Reforms.

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