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 number of people incarcerated in 2001, by gender

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2001, Tables 5 and 10. (Graph: Peter Wagner, 2003)



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