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Graph showing the number of people incarcerates under state and federal jurisdiction by facility type in 2014

Data Source: Compiled by the Prison Policy Initiative,using data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Prisoner Statistics series. (Graph: Peter Wagner, 2016)

This graph originally appeared in Some private prisons are, um, public.



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