HELP US END MASS INCARCERATION
The Prison Policy Initiative uses research, advocacy, and organizing to dismantle mass incarceration. We’ve been in this movement for 23 years, thanks to individual donors like you.
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Data Source: Compiled by the Prison Policy Initiative from publicly available data from state parole boards and responses to open records requests. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2023)
This graph originally appeared in No Release: Parole grant rates have plummeted in most states since the pandemic started.
To see full information about parole grant rates by year in each state from 2019-2022, see this briefing's appendix .
