bar chart showing that unhoused people are booked into jails less often for violent charges and more often jailed for public order, drug, or property crimes associated with survival

Data Source: Jail Data Initiative. (Graph: Leah Wang, 2025)

This graph originally appeared in Jailing the homeless: New data shed light on unhoused people in local jails.

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