Bar chart showing that 30% of people who stayed between 4 and 7 days in jail lost their job

Data Source: Sandra Susan Smith, How Pretrial Incarceration Diminishes Individuals' Employment Prospects, Federal Probation Vol. 86 No. 3 (December 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.

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