Graph showing the $182 billion system of mass incarceration and the relative size of its sub-parts from policing, to courts to private companies. Private prisons are a very small part of the total.

(Graph: Peter Wagner & Bernadette Rabuy, 2017)

This graph originally appeared in Following the Money of Mass Incarceration.

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