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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.
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Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Data Source: Data compiled by the Prison Policy Initiative from news sources, government reports, and advocacy groups. Data from the U.S., the Netherlands, England and Wales, and Iceland are from 2019. Data from Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Japan, and Norway are from 2018, and data from Canada are from 2017. For details, see: www.prisonpolicy.org//blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/. (Graph: Alexi Jones & Wendy Sawyer, 2020)
This graph originally appeared in Not just “a few bad apples”: U.S. police kill civilians at much higher rates than other countries.
