Data Source: Christopher Lowenkamp, The Hidden Costs of Pretrial Detention Revisited, March 21, 2022. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2024)
This graph originally appeared in Research roundup: Evidence that a single day in jail causes immediate and long-lasting harms.
Each day a person spends in pretrial detention was strongly associated with a consistently higher likelihood of a new arrest pending trial compared to those who are not detained.
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