Data Source: Prison Policy Initiative, Beyond the Count and Nowhere to Go; Pew Charitable Trusts, More than 1 in 9 People With Co-Occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders are Arrested Annually (2023); Laurence Roy et al., Criminal Behavior and Victimization Among Homeless Individuals with Severe Mental Illness: A Systematic Review. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2023)
This graph originally appeared in Seeking shelter from mass incarceration: Fighting criminalization with Housing First.
Events
- July 9, 2026:
Join the Prison Policy Initiative, Latino Justice, and the MacArthur Justice Center for a powerful webinar focused on the parole board process and the case for the presumption of release. It will begin with a firsthand account from Frank Silva and his interview for freedom followed by Clinical Professor of Law Heidi Rummel and the legality of “presumption of release,” and how California’s framework has shifted the burden of proof.
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