bar chart comparing the percent of the statewide population living in rural areas with the percent of the jail population in rural counties for Utah, Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, and North Dakota

Data Source: Calculated by the Prison Policy Initiative from Vera's Incarceration Trends dataset, accessed September 2025 at https://github.com/vera-institute/incarceration-trends. (Graph: Emily Widra, 2025)

This graph originally appeared in Almost half of all incarcerated people are in rural jails and prisons and at risk of losing access to hospitals.

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