HELP US END MASS INCARCERATION
The Prison Policy Initiative uses research, advocacy, and organizing to dismantle mass incarceration. We’ve been in this movement for 23 years, thanks to individual donors like you.
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Can you help us sustain this work?
Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Data Source: Calculated by the Prison Policy Initiative using state returns to incarceration for revocation of parole (no new sentence) reported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in Probation and Parole in the United States, 2016, Appendix Table 7, and average cost per inmate for each state, reported by Vera Institute of Justice in The Price of Prisons (2017). (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2018)
This graph originally appeared in Eight Keys to Mercy: How to shorten excessive prison sentences.
