bar chart showing the percentage of people in prison in each state who are incarcerated in rural counties

Data Source: Calculated by the Prison Policy Initiative from the Bureau of Justice Statistics Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 2019, and the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 County Rurality Level report. (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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