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Chart showing states released fewer people during 2020 than in 2019

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2020 Table 9. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2022)

This graph originally appeared in New data: The changes in prisons, jails, probation, and parole in the first year of the pandemic.



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