Three bar charts for years 2020, 2021, and 2022 showing that prison transfers for administrative, disciplinary, and other reasons overshadowed those done at the request of incarcerated people.

Data Source: Compiled from data obtained via public records request from the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2025)

This graph originally appeared in “You want to be in the hell you already know”: How prison transfers regularly upend incarcerated people’s lives.

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