bar chart showing larger percentages of community supervision report income under $20,000 than in the general population

Data Source: National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 2019. (Graph: Emily Widra, 2023)

This graph originally appeared in Mortality, health, and poverty: the unmet needs of people on probation and parole.

Probation and parole populations are defined here as people who reported being on probation or parole in the past 12 months, and general population is defined as those not on probation or parole in the past 12 months.

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