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bar chart comparing prior Bureau of Justice Statistics survey reports of the share of women who were pregnant when entering state prison to the 2016 results of the Pregnancy in Prison Statistics project and the 2023 BJS report.

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics' Prisoners in 2022 and Maternal Healthcare and Pregnancy Prevalence and Outcomes in Prison, 2023 and Sufrin, Carolyn, et al., Pregnancy Outcomes in US Prisons, 2016-2017, American Journal of Public Health, published online April 10, 2019. (Graph: Emily Widra, 2025)

This graph originally appeared in New data on pregnancy prevalence, outcomes, and programs in prisons are welcome additions, but raise new questions.

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