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Chart showing fewer court cases were started, closed, or cleared in 2020 than in 2019.

Data Source: Court Statistics Project, CSP STAT Criminal, accessed March 17, 2022. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2022)

This graph originally appeared in Untangling why prison & jail populations dropped early in the pandemic.

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