{"id":17225,"date":"2025-03-11T09:07:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=17225"},"modified":"2025-03-11T09:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:26:15","slug":"pie-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/11\/pie-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"New report, <i>Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2025,<\/i> shows prisons and jails continuing to lock up more people after a decade of consistent declines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>Easthampton, Mass.<\/b><\/i> \u2014 Today, the Prison Policy Initiative released the 2025 edition of its flagship report, <a href=\"\/reports\/pie2025.html\"><i>Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie.<\/i><\/a> The report offers the most comprehensive view of the nearly 2 million people incarcerated in the U.S., showing what types of facilities they are in and why. It also serves as a primer on the size and scope of the criminal legal system and busts 10 of the most persistent myths about mass incarceration and crime.<\/p>\n<picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/pie2025.webp 1x, \/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/pie2025-2X.webp 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/pie2025.png\" alt=\"Main pie chart graphic from Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2025.\" width=\"featureimage1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"featureimage1024\">\n<\/picture>\n<p class=\"prelist\">For the first time ever, the report highlights important changes and trends in the criminal legal system, including:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li><b>The overall incarcerated population has grown by roughly 2% since our last Whole Pie report, according to the most recent data,<\/b> although the total confined population is still about 13% smaller than its pre-pandemic size;<\/li>\n<li>Recent growth in incarceration is largely driven by a handful of states, with nine states accounting for 77% of all state prison growth over 2022 and 2023. Conversely, 10 states have continued to reduce their prison population since 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Courts sent 11% more young people to incarceration in 2022 than in 2021, the first increase in youth confinement in over two decades.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>&#8220;This data tells the story of states taking two divergent paths,&#8221;<\/b> said Wendy Sawyer, Research Director of the Prison Policy Initiative. &#8220;The first path works to reduce the number of people behind bars, recognizing that every person who is locked up represents the failure of overly-punitive policies. The other path doubles down on the misguided policies that created the nation\u2019s mass incarceration crisis by locking more people up, destroying lives, and making communities less safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"prelist\">The report includes 32 visualizations that shine a light on the hidden realities of the criminal legal system in America, including:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li>A pie &#8220;slice&#8221; showing the 655,000 people in local jails on any given day, including over 450,000 people awaiting trial, and over 100,000 people held by jails for other agencies.<\/li>\n<li>A graphic explaining that, contrary to a popular misconception, only 8% of incarcerated people are held in privately-run facilities.<\/li>\n<li>Graphics offering details about lesser-known parts of the criminal legal system, including involuntary commitment, civil commitment, and jails on tribal lands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Friday, March 14, at 1 p.m. Eastern time, Prison Policy Initiative will host an Instagram Live discussion about the key takeaways from the report and answer questions from viewers. Those interested in joining this event can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/prisonpolicy?upcoming_event_id=17860085967373316\">use their mobile phone to set a reminder and watch here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The full report is available at: <a href=\"\/reports\/pie2025.html\">https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/reports\/pie2025.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest iteration of the Prison Policy Initiative\u2019s flagship report explains that the incarcerated population grew by about 2% overall, with significant spikes in the incarceration of immigrants and young people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[46],"class_list":["post-17225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17225"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17233,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17225\/revisions\/17233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17225"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}