Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners series, 1994-2012 showing state jurisdictional populations with sentences over 1 year. Estimates for those held for violent offenses are imputed for 1981-84, 1986-89, and 1994. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2019)

This graph originally appeared in Reforms without Results: Why states should stop excluding violent offenses from criminal justice reforms.