Data Source: See Appendix Table 2 of this report for state parole data sources. (Graph: Leah Wang, 2025)

This graph originally appeared in Parole in Perspective: How parole decisions are made.

Of the 35 states which have discretionary parole for many or most prison sentences, 29 had at least some data regarding how many people were granted parole between 2019 and 2024. A green line indicates an increase in the number of parole grants from the earliest to the latest year of available data.