Data Source: Please refer to “State Data” portion of original report. (Graph: Joshua Aiken, 2017)
This graph originally appeared in Era of Mass Expansion: Why State Officials Should Fight Jail Growth.
In the eight states where convicted people make up the majority of the jail population, that status is less likely to be the result of particularly enlightened bail policies, and more likely to be the result of the jails in that state renting large numbers of cells to the state prison system.