HELP US END MASS INCARCERATION
The Prison Policy Initiative uses research, advocacy, and organizing to dismantle mass incarceration. We’ve been in this movement for 23 years, thanks to individual donors like you.
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Data Source: Compiled from multiple Bureau of Justice Statistics data sets. See our blog post about the data. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer and Peter Wagner, 2024)
This graph originally appeared in Updated charts show the magnitude of prison and jail racial disparities, pretrial populations, correctional control, and more.
The original version of the charts showing how state policy drives mass incarceration was published in Tracking State Prison Growth in 50 States.
