Chart showing formerly incarcerated people earn nearly $100 less a week than the general population 4 years after their release

Data Source: Calculated by the Prison Policy Initiative from Bureau of Justice Statistics, Employment of Persons Releases from Federal Prison in 2010, Table 6, and Social Security Administration, Wage Statistics for 2010 and 2014. (Graph: Leah Wang, 2022)

This graph originally appeared in New data on formerly incarcerated people’s employment reveal labor market injustices.

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