Graphs by PPI staff:
Crime, perceptions of crime and perceptions of crime-fighters
- Burglaries per 1,000 households, by income level. (2003)
- Growth in the prison populaton and in citizens' feeling of safety, 1965-2000 (2003)
- Murder rates by race and gender, 1998 (2003)
- Confidence in the police, by race (2003)
- Do the police treat all races fairly?, by race (2003)
Death penalty
- Executions 1953-2001 (2003)
- Death row population 1953-2001 (2003)
Demographics of the prison population
- U.S. incarceration rates by race (2005)
- Young males incarcerated at very high rates (2005)
- Incarcerated males by race (2005)
- Incarceration rates, by gender (2005)
- Males are over-represented in prisons and jails (2004)
- Racial disparity between U.S. and incarcerated populations (2004)
- Lifetime chance of incarceration, by race (2003)
- Increases in the African American population in prison and in higher education, 1980-2000 (2003)
- African American male population in higher education and in prison, 2000 (2003)
- Complete illiteracy in the prisoner and general populations (2003)
- Juveniles in adult prisons, by race (2003)
- Incarceration rates by race and gender, 2000 (2003)
- Number of prisoners and jail inmates by gender, 2001 (2003)
Economics
- Justice system employees 1982-1999 (2003)
- Minimum wages in the United States, in Haiti and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (2003)
- Daily cost to feed prisoners and the average American (2003)
- Comparison of size of crime control workforce with farming, forestry and fishing (2003)
- Salaries for California teachers and correctional officers, 1996 (2003)
- Criminal Justice System Expenditures (2003)
Incarceration rates, U.S.
- Incarceration rate 1925-2001 (2003)
International comparisons
- U.S. general and prisoner population as a percentage of the world (2003)
- An international incarceration comparison - Blacks in prison in the U.S. and South Africa (2005)
Prison-Based Gerrymandering
- Seats per legislator, Marion City Council (August, 2004)
- Number of people per Marion Ohio City Council Ward (August, 2004)
- Number of people per Mansfield Ohio City Council ward (August, 2004)
- Where is New York's incarcerated population? (April, 2004)
- Size of each St. Lawrence County legislative district (2004)
- Prisoners per 100,000 residents, emphasizing the low rate through the 1980 U.S. Census. (2003)
- New York State: Where is the population? (2002)
- Growth in the New York State prison and drug prisoner populations (2002)
- New York prison and state populations by race (2002)
- Prisoner-count based vote dilution in Mansfield Ohio (2003)
Private prisons
State-Specific
- Percent of Massachusetts adults barred from voting (October, 2004)
- Blacks are overrepresented in Franklin County, MA jail (August, 2004)
- Massachusetts' falling crime rate (August, 2004)
- Racial disparities in incarceration by state, 2000 (2004)
- Incarceration rates by race, 2001 (each state) (2004)
- Pennsylvania's Institutional Populations 1982-2003 (2003)
- Ohio's corrections budget grew faster than education budget, 1985-2000 (2003)
- Blacks overrepresented in Ohio prisons (2003)
- Racial disparities in North Carolina incarceration (2003)
- Racial Disparities in North Carolina Incarceration (alternate) (2003)
- Racial disparities in North Carolina incarceration per 100,000 population (2003)