Graph showing the number of people in state prison and local jails per 100,000 residents in the District of Columbia from 1978 to 2015

Data Source: Compiled by the Prison Policy Initiative from multiple Bureau of Justice Statistics datasets. For detailed sourcing, see our report Era of Mass Expansion: Why State Officials Should Fight Jail Growth. (Graph: Joshua Aiken, 2017)

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