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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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Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
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.
