HELP US END MASS INCARCERATION The Prison Policy Initiative uses research, advocacy, and organizing to dismantle mass incarceration. We’ve been in this movement for 23 years, thanks to individual donors like you.

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Graph showing the local jail incarceration rate from 1978 to 2012

Data Source: Compiled by the Prison Policy Initiative for report at http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/overtime.html. (Graph: Peter Wagner, 2014)

This graph originally appeared in United States profile.

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