{"id":18645,"date":"2026-03-11T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=18645"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:27:46","slug":"whole-pie-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/11\/whole-pie-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"New <i>Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie<\/i> report shows effects of Trump&#8217;s immigrant detention campaign on incarceration numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people held in ICE detention on any given day grew 58% between 2025 and 2026, increasing the total number of people behind bars in the U.S., a new report shows. The latest edition of the Prison Policy Initiative&#8217;s report <a href=\"\/reports\/pie2026.html\"><i>Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie<\/i><\/a> &mdash; which pieces together the most recent data on different confinement systems to provide the big-picture view of incarceration in this country &mdash; shows that the rise in immigration detention has driven up overall incarceration numbers.<\/p>\n<picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/pie2026.webp 1x, \/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/pie2026-2X.webp 2x\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/pie2026.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"featureimage1024\">\n<\/picture>\n<p class=\"prelist\">Key findings from this year&#8217;s report include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li>Across all federal agencies for which data are available, including the federal Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (which holds unaccompanied migrant children), <b>the number of people behind bars for immigration reasons increased 32% since last year.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>The number of people detained by ICE grew by 25,200 (58%) since last year, remaining near record-high levels.<\/li>\n<li>In 2024 (the most recent year for which data are available), people held under local jurisdiction in city, county, and regional jails fell by 17,000.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly 10,000 fewer people were incarcerated for federal crimes in 2026 compared to 2025, reflecting changes in federal law enforcement priorities and clemency actions under the second Trump administration. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Even as we see the number of people in prisons and jails hold relatively steady, immigration detention has exploded,&#8221; said report co-author Wendy Sawyer. &#8220;What&#8217;s more, the number of facilities holding people for ICE grew by 65 percent in the last year. <b>President Trump&#8217;s cruel and wasteful policies of mass detention are not only driving up the number of incarcerated people; they are expanding the carceral landscape in this country.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"prelist\">As in every edition of this report, 2026&#8217;s <i>Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie<\/i> includes sections putting incarceration numbers in important context:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li><b>A &#8220;myth-busting&#8221; section addressing ten common misconceptions about mass incarceration and crime,<\/b> including the impacts of immigration and criminal justice reform on crime and the footprint of the &#8220;war on drugs&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>Sections taking a closer look at specific sections of the &#8220;pie&#8221; chart, and explaining how even low-level offenses can spiral into time spent behind bars;<\/li>\n<li>A section &#8220;zooming out&#8221; to show that when systems of community-based punishment &#8212; mainly, probation and parole &#8212; are included, the total number of people under correctional control grows to over 5 million.<\/li>\n<li>Insights about the <b>fiscal costs of mass incarceration, which now total $445 billion per year.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full report is available at <a href=\"\/reports\/pie2026.html\">https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/reports\/pie2026.html.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The increase in the number of people behind bars since last year&#8217;s report is almost entirely attributable to immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[46],"class_list":["post-18645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18645","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=18645"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18656,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18645\/revisions\/18656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18645"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}