New York profile
Change over time
Also see these New York 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, Hispanics, and Blacks in New York prisons and jails.
The big picture
Our other articles about New York
- Analysis shows people in NYC jails would be better served in the community by Bernadette Rabuy, November 16, 2016
- Stop and frisk dropping but still ineffective by Yoo Eun Kim, May 16, 2016
- Prison Gerrymandering Project New York Page
- What’s behind New York State's elderly prison boom?, by Rachel Gandy, June 29, 2015
- Implementing Reform: How Maryland & New York Ended Prison Gerrymandering by Bernadette Rabuy, August 20, 2014
- Voting equality still up for debate in Rome, NY, by Aleks Kajstura, June 23, 2014
- New York prison system tells FCC meaningful prison phone regulation is possible, by Leah Sakala, July 10, 2013
- Patting down the data on racial profiling in New York City, by Peter Wagner, Prison Law Blog, May 10, 2012
- Attica's lessons and the urgency of ending prison-based gerrymandering, by Peter Wagner and Rose Heyer, Prison Gerrymandering Blog, September 13, 2011
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An End to Prison Gerrymandering, New York Times editorial, August 23, 2010. 
Phantom constituents in the Empire State: How outdated Census Bureau methodology burdens New York counties By Peter Wagner, Meghan Rudy, Ellie Happel and William Goldberg July 18, 2007
Most upstate counties with prisons agree: A prison cell is not a residence [PDF]by Peter Wagner, February 14, 2010
Actual Constituents: Students and Political Clout in New York, by Peter Wagner, October 6, 2004
Too big to ignore: How counting people in prisons distorted Census 2000, by Rose Heyer and Peter Wagner, April 2004
Importing Constituents: Prisoners and Political Clout in New York, by Peter Wagner, April 22, 2002- How does the New York incarceration rate measure up in the global context?
Other resources
- Research on New York 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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