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Change over time

Also see these Maine 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, Blacks, and American Indians/Native Americans in Maine prisons and jails.

The big picture

Our other articles about Maine

• Prison-based gerrymandering costs Maine 8th graders local schooling, by Peter Wagner, Prison Gerrymandering Blog, February 15, 2011
• Phantom Constituents in Maine’s Regional School Unit 13: How the Census Bureau’s outdated method of counting prisoners harms democracy, by Peter Wagner, January 15, 2009

• How does the Maine incarceration rate measure up in the global context?

Other resources

• Research on Maine in our Research Clearinghouse