Data Source: Compiled by the Prison Policy Initiative from U.S. Marshals Service statistics. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2025)
This graph originally appeared in Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump.
At the end of January 2025, federal pretrial detention booking for immigration-related offenses spiked as the new Trump administration ramped up its criminalization of immigration.
Events
- February 25, 2026:
On February 25, 2026 at 1 p.m. EST, join the Prison Policy Initiative and guests James Kilgore and Mon Mohapatra to discuss ways to push back on “carceral humanist” reforms that don’t change the underlying dehumanization of the criminal legal system.
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