Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Prisoner Statistics, 2019 (for total releases) and Prisoners in 2020 - Statistics Tables, Table 9 (for number of deaths counted among releases, which were subtracted from release counts). (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2022)

This graph originally appeared in Since you asked: How many people are released from each state’s prisons and jails every year?.

This map doesn’t include people who are released from local jails, which experience much higher rates of population turnover (sometimes referred to as “jail churn”) due to shorter average length of stay.