chart showing populations changes in large jails from March to July 2020

Data Source: Data collected by the NYU Public Safety Lab Jail Data Initiative and analyzed by the Prison Policy Initiative. (Graph: Emily Widra & Peter Wagner, 2020)

This graph originally appeared in Jails and prisons have reduced their populations in the face of the pandemic, but not enough to save lives.

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