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Slice of a pie chart showing that 85,000 are women locked up in jails on a given day in the United States and the underlying offense using the newest data available in 2023

Data Source: For sources see the methodology section of our 2023 report, Women's Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023. (Graph: Aleks Kajstura, 2023)

This graph originally appeared in Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023.

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