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.
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Data Source: Compiled from multiple Bureau of Justice Statistics data sets for the jail population and divided by U.S. Census Bureau annual estimates of the total population. See our blog post about the Bureau of Justice Statistics data and Tracking State Prison Growth in 50 States for the sources of population data through 2012. More recent estimates are from the from the U.S. Census Bureau's population estimates. (Graph: Joshua Aiken, 2017)
