Data Source: Federal Budget 2025-2029; Bureau of Justice Statistics 2023 jail data. "Uncrowded" jails are defined as less than 85 percent full. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2025)
This graph originally appeared in Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump.
Events
- February 25, 2026:
On February 25, 2026 at 1 p.m. EST, join the Prison Policy Initiative and guests James Kilgore and Mon Mohapatra to discuss ways to push back on “carceral humanist” reforms that don’t change the underlying dehumanization of the criminal legal system.
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