{"id":4014,"date":"2015-12-08T13:04:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T17:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2015-12-08T13:09:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T17:09:55","slug":"whole_pie2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/08\/whole_pie2015\/","title":{"rendered":"New report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2015, reveals 2.3 million people are locked up in the U.S. and why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 8, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nBernadette Rabuy<br \/>\nbrabuy [at] prisonpolicy.org<\/p>\n<p><b>Easthampton, MA <\/b> &mdash; With 2.3 million people locked up in more than 7,000 correctional facilities operated by thousands of agencies, getting the big picture is anything but easy. Today, with the publication of <a href=\"\/reports\/pie2015.html\">Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2015<\/a>, the Prison Policy Initiative provides the answer to how many people are locked up in the U.S., where, and why. Building upon our groundbreaking <a href=\"\/reports\/pie.html\">2014 report<\/a> that, for the first time, aggregated the disparate systems of confinement, this updated version contains further detail on why people are locked up:<\/p>\n<p class=\"featureimage\"><a href=\"\/reports\/pie2015.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/pie2015.jpg\" alt=\"pie chart showing the number of people locked up on a given day in the United States by facility type and the underlying offense using the newest data available in December 2015\" width=\"860\" height=\"643\" class=\"pie\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we discuss in our <a href=\"\/reports\/pie2015.html\">report<\/a>, looking at the \u201cwhole pie\u201d allows us to cut through the fog to answer key questions such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After state prisons, what is the next biggest slice of confinement?<\/li>\n<li>How does the number of people that cycle through correctional facilities in a year differ from the number of people locked up on a particular day?<\/li>\n<li>How important is it to ending mass incarceration that we reform the policies that increasingly detain people pretrial?<\/li>\n<li>How many people nationwide are imprisoned because their most serious offense was a drug offense?<\/li>\n<li>How does the number of people in correctional facilities compare to the even larger number of people on probation and parole?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Armed with the big picture, <a href=\"\/reports\/pie2015.html\">Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2015<\/a>, gives the public and policymakers the foundation to now consider the types of changes that would end the country\u2019s reign as the <a href=\"\/global\/\">number one incarcerator in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report is available at: <a href=\"\/reports\/pie2015.html\">http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/reports\/pie2015.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. locks up more than 2.3 million people in prisons, jails, and other facilities on any given day. New report provides foundation for long overdue conversation about criminal justice reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[21,11],"class_list":["post-4014","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\/4014","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}