Graph showing the incarceration rate for men in Mississippi state prisons. In 1978, there were 211 men incarcerated per 100,000 men in Mississippi. By 2015, the men's incarceration rate in Mississippi was 1173 per 100,000 men in Mississippi.

(Graph: Wendy Sawyer, January 2018)

thumbnail for The Gender Divide report This graph is a part of the Prison Policy Initiative report, The Gender Divide: Tracking women's state prison growth.

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