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Miscellaneous visualizations
- Disciplinary write-ups are common and usually involve "minor" violations, but they almost always lead to harsh punishments (Created: 2025)
- Prison disciplinary systems mimic criminal legal systems — but without the due process protections (Created: 2025)
- Corrections workers make more money than people working much deadlier jobs (Created: 2024)
- Correctional workers' wages have risen over the past decade even during periods of high inflation (Created: 2024)
- State prisons and local jails have lost thousands of full-time workers since the COVID-19 pandemic began (Created: 2024)
- State prison and local jail staffing levels have cratered since the pandemic began (Created: 2024)
- In state prisons, rule violations result in harsh punishments including solitary confinement and loss of essential services (Created: 2022)
- COVID-19 data transparency varies greatly across prison systems (Created: 2021)
- Since 2016, annual Bureau of Justice Statistics reports have been delayed by months (Created: 2019)
- Reductions in shootings in three cities that used the Cure Violence (CeaseFire) model (Created: 2019)
- President Obama has granted the lowest percentage of clemency petitions in recent history (Created: 2016)
- Massachusetts' falling crime rate (Created: 2004)
- Growth in the prison population and in citizens' feeling of safety, 1965-2000 (Created: 2003)
Events
- April 15-17, 2025:
Sarah Staudt, our Director of Policy and Advocacy, will be attending the MacArthur Safety and Justice Challenge Network Meeting from April 15-17 in Chicago. Drop her a line if you’d like to meet up!
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