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slide showing that 33% of people in state prisons had an incarcerated parent, 69% are parents, almost half are parents of minors, and together, they are parents to 1.25 million minor children

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics' Survey of Prison Inmates, 2016 and Parents in Prison and their Minor Children. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2022)

This graph originally appeared in Both sides of the bars: How mass incarceration punishes families.

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