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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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Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey, 2007-2022 & Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2023)
This graph originally appeared in Why did prison and jail populations grow in 2022 — and what comes next?.
We looked at two indicators of crime — self-reported victimization and officially-reported crime — and observed the same patterns in both.
