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The Prison Policy Initiative uses research, advocacy, and organizing to dismantle mass incarceration. We’ve been in this movement for 25 years, thanks to individual donors like you.
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Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Data Visualizations
The Prison Policy Initiative creates data visualizations to drive our points home and empower others to make their own demands for justice.
- Staff picks (13)
- Age (18) Disparities relating to age
- Animation (4) Data in motion
- Collateral consequences (20)
- Communication (39) Understanding access to internet, phones, mail, and video
- Correctional control (71) Supervision extending beyond prison walls: probation, parole, and civil commitment
- Court system (18) The judicial process and systems
- COVID-19 (33) Prison and jail responses to the pandemic
- Death penalty (17)
- Disenfranchisement (14) Barring people from the polls because of criminal convictions
- Drug Policy (15) Analysis of drug policy and its effects on the prison system
- Economics (50) Individual and institutional financial costs and impacts
- Education (17) Education attainment, access to educational programs, & literacy
- Families (19) How incarceration affects families
- Gender (89) Disparities relating to gender
- Geography-based punishments (21) Criminalizing not activities, but spaces
- Gun control (3) Gun access & gun violence
- Healthcare (79) The health needs and outcomes of incarcerated people
- Immigration (21) The overlap of immigration and criminal law
- International comparisons (18) How the U.S. stacks up globally
- Jails (113)
- LGBTQ (16)
- Mental health (27) Policy and practice of mental health
- Mortality (28) Death and dying
- Other (19) Miscellaneous visualizations
- Police & policing (48) Presence, practices, and policies of police
- Population size & incarceration rate (211)
- Poverty & wealth (52)
- Prison gerrymandering (95) How the prison system distorts legislative redistricting
- Prison labor (3) Work done in prison by incarcerated populations
- Prison programs (2) Programming available for incarcerated populations
- Private prisons (8) Data on the private prison industry
- Public opinion (3) Polling data & more
- Race & ethnicity (137) Disparities relating to race and ethnicity
- Recidivism & reentry (31) What makes people more or less likely to succeed upon release?
- Sentencing policy (16)
- Sex offenses (10) The policy and practice of responding to sexual offenses
- State profiles (50) State-level visualizations
- Youth (46) Juvenile justice and the prison system's effect on children
Events
- November 18-21, 2026:
Members of our Research team, will be attending the American Society of Criminology annual meeting in Chicago from November 18th through the 21st. Please reach out if you’d like to set up a meeting.
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