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Change over time

Also see these Florida graphs:

• total numbers rather than rates.
• Women’s prisons: Incarceration Rates | Total Population
• Men’s prisons: Incarceration Rates | Total Population

Racial disparities

See also our detailed graphs about Whites and Blacks in Florida prisons and jails.

The big picture

Our other articles about Florida

• Federal Judge holds prison gerrymandering unconstitutional by Aleks Kajstura, March 21, 2016
• ACLU files lawsuit challenging “prison gerrymandering” election districts in Florida county, by Bernadette Rabuy, March 11, 2015
• Reading, Writing, and Redistricting in School Board Districts with Prisons Part II: Florida, by Elena Lavarreda, December 11, 2013
• Putting the con in constituent, by Fred Grimm, The Miami Herald, September 28, 2013
• Hillsborough jails to limit incoming inmate mail to postcards, by Jessica Vander Velde, Tampa Bay Times, August 17, 2013
• ACLU suing Flagler over jail mail policy, by Julie Murphy, News-Journal (Daytona Beach, Florida), February 20, 2013
• 2 Swing States That Swing on Felon Disenfranchisement, by James Ridgeway, Mother Jones, November 2, 2012
• New graphic shows that states with harshest disenfranchisement laws will likely pick the next president, by Leah Sakala, October 30, 2012
• Disenfranchisement infographic showing that the states that bar the most people from the polls are most likely to pick the next president
• How does the Florida incarceration rate measure up in the global context?

Other resources

• Research on Florida in our Research Clearinghouse