{"id":1880,"date":"2014-05-28T14:18:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2014-09-30T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T12:00:55","slug":"3briefings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/28\/3briefings\/","title":{"rendered":"Three massive new briefings from the Prison Policy Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Prison Policy Initiative released two new briefings <i>and<\/i> a brand new way to access useful data about incarceration in your state.<\/p>\n<p>We released: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/reports\/rates.html\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/reportthumbs\/race.jpg\" class=\"left\" alt=\"report thumbnail\" width=\"130\" height=\"168\"\/>Breaking Down Mass Incarceration in the 2010 Census:<\/a>  State-by-State Incarceration Rates by Race\/Ethnicity, by Leah Sakala<\/li>\n<li class=\"clear\"><a href=\"\/reports\/overtime.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/reportthumbs\/time.jpg\" alt=\"report thumbnail\" width=\"130\" height=\"168\" class=\"left\"  \/><\/a><a href=\"\/reports\/overtime.html\">Tracking State Prison Growth in 50 States<\/a>, by Peter Wagner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"clear\">Also today, we launched <a href=\"\/profiles\/\">50 state profiles<\/a> (and a <a href=\"\/profiles\/US.html\">national one<\/a>) giving you one-click access both to the findings of these two new briefings and to the highlights of all of our work over the last 13 years on each state:   <\/p>\n<p>All told, we produced 316 new graphs for you to use, including these two never-seen-before graphs from the <a href=\"\/profiles\/US.html\">U.S. profile page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/graphs\/state_driver_rates_1925-2012.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/state_driver_rates_1925-2012.jpg?v=1\" alt=\"graph showing the incarceration rates per 100,000 for (separately) United States state prisons, federal prisons and local jails from 1925 through 2012, showing that the state rate is the most important part\" width=\"590\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/graphs\/2010rates\/US.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/2010rates\/US_Rates_2010.jpg?v=1\" alt=\"2010 graph showing incarceration rates per 100,000 people of various racial and ethnic groups in the United States\" width=\"590\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we explain on our <a href=\"\/profiles\/US.html\">national profile page<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\t\tWith over two million people behind bars at any given time, the United States has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWe spend about <a href=\"\/blog\/2014\/05\/23\/price-of-incarceration\/\">$82.4 billion<\/a> every year &mdash; not to mention the significant social cost &mdash; to lock up nearly 1% of our adult population. To be able to evaluate this policy choice, our communities must have access to <b>reliable and up-to-date information about the trajectory and scope of our nation&#39;s experiment with mass incarceration<\/b>. With this page, and the accompanying <a href=\"\/profiles\/index.html\">50 State Incarceration Profile<\/a> series, we hope bring some of the most important and under-discussed national facts into the public discourse.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>316 graphs of state-by-state data on racial disparities and prison growth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11,13],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}