chart showing that incarcerated parents often grew up in difficult circumstances, including foster care, having an incarcerated parent, experiencing homelessness, low income, and not completing high school

Data Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics' Survey of Prison Inmates, 2016 data analyzed by the Prison Policy Initiative. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2022)

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

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