Maryland profile
Change over time
Also see these Maryland 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 Maryland prisons and jails.
The big picture
Our other articles about Maryland
- Maryland proposes - and promptly withdraws - plan to ban letters to people incarcerated in the state’s prisons by Alison Walsh, July 20, 2016
- Letter to the Editor: Cecil County, MD, should cancel jail letter ban plan, by Leah Sakala, March 17, 2015
- New Study: Maryland taxpayers spend $288 million a year to incarcerate people from Baltimore City, by Justice Policy Institute, February 25, 2015
The Right Investment? Corrections Spending in Baltimore City, by the Justice Policy Institute and the Prison Policy Initiative, February 2015- Historic election for “one person, one vote” in Maryland, by Leah Sakala, October 31, 2014
- Implementing Reform: How Maryland & New York Ended Prison Gerrymandering, by Bernadette Rabuy, August 20, 2014
- Maryland law brings long-awaited racial justice to Somerset County, by Leah Sakala, Prison gerrymandering blog, August 16, 2012
- Supreme Court upholds Maryland law ending prison-based gerrymandering; Huge victory for fair representation, press release, Prison gerrymandering blog, June 25, 2012
Rights groups rejoice in Somerset election change, by Liz Holland,
Delmarva Daily Times, April 16, 2010
Md. to count
prisoners in their home towns, by Carol Morello, Washington
Post, April 15, 2010- Maryland enacts law to count incarcerated people at their home addresses, press release from Prison Gerrymandering Blog, April 13, 2010
Importing Constituents: Incarcerated People and Political Clout in Maryland, by Peter Wagner and Olivia Cummings, March 4, 2010- How does the Maryland incarceration rate measure up in the global context?
The Right Investment? Corrections Spending in Baltimore CityOther resources
- Research on Maryland in our Research Clearinghouse
Events
- May 15, 2018:
Our Policy Analyst Lucius Couloute will be at the LEDA Summit on Race and Inclusion in Holland, Michigan, presenting his research on the challenges and disadvantages people face when they are released from prison. Tickets are available on LEDA’s website.
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