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 22 years, thanks to individual donors like you.
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Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
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Miscellaneous visualizations
- 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)
