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.
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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 the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends dataset using the total pretrial population and the total county population for all ages. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2021)
This graph originally appeared in Rise in jail deaths is especially troubling as jail populations become more rural and more female.
