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Change over time

Also see these Michigan 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 Michigan prisons and jails.

The big picture

Our other articles about Michigan

• Detroit Pistons owner about to squeeze fans in a new way, buying Securus by Wendy Sawyer, May 18, 2017
• Letter: Ionia County postcard-only jail mail policy should be canceled, by Peter Wagner, September 28, 2014
• Michigan ACLU uses our map, testifies against harmful loitering bill, by Peter Wagner, Prison Policy Initiative Blog, October 17, 2013
• Michigan spares most counties and municipalities from prison-based gerrymandering, by Andrew Stecker and Aleks Kajstura Prison Gerrymandering Project Blog, September 26, 2011
• Fixing prison-based gerrymandering after the 2010 Census: Michigan, from Prison Policy Initiative's Fixing prison-based gerrymandering after the 2010 Census: A 50 state guide
• Counting Convicts: Do it here or there?, Jackson City Patriot editorial, February 9, 2006
• How does the Michigan incarceration rate measure up in the global context?

Other resources

• Research on Michigan in our Research Clearinghouse