Pennsylvania profile
Change over time
Also see these Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania prisons and jails.
The big picture
Our other articles about Pennsylvania
- Prison Policy Initiative research displayed outside of Philadelphia City Hall by Peter Wagner, October 30, 2015
FCC caps cost of phone calls to prison inmates, by Andrew McGill, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 10, 2013
Importing Constituents:
Prisoners and Political Clout in Pennsylvania, by Peter Wagner and Elena Lavarreda, June 26, 2009
Report: Census Prisoner Count Dilutes Urban
Political Clout By Amaris Elliott-Engel, The Legal
Intelligencer, June 26, 2009- In Memory of Jon E. Yount (1938 - 2012), by Peter Wagner, Prison Policy Initiative Blog, May 22, 2012
- How does the Pennsylvania incarceration rate measure up in the global context?
Other resources
- Research on Pennsylvania 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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