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Chart showing in San Francisco and Harris County, TX jail populations didn't decrease after EM expansions

Data Source: California Board of State and Community Corrections Jail Population Trends (March 27, 2023), Table 41; California Policy Lab's Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco (2022); Harris County's Jail Population History website; and "Harris County electronic monitor population skyrockets to nearly 4,000," as reported by Mario Diaz in Click2Houston (2021). (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2023)

This graph originally appeared in Not an alternative: The myths, harms, and expansion of pretrial electronic monitoring.

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