Jails
- Number of people in jail, by offense type, conviction status, and agency jurisdiction (Created: 2023)
- Pre-trial detention in different parts of the justice system (Created: 2023)
- Number of people in local jail over time, by conviction status (Created: 2023)
- Most people in Indian Country jails are locked up for property, drug, and public order charges (Created: 2023)
- Nearly half of incarcerated women are held in jails (Created: 2023)
- State policy drives women's incarceration growth - rates (Created: 2022)
- State policy drives women's incarceration growth - raw numbers (Created: 2022)
- Racial disparities in local jail incarceration rates, 2019 (Created: 2022)
- Racial disparities in prison incarceration rates, 2019 (Created: 2022)
- What significant changes did pretrial reform have in Harris County? (Created: 2022)
- Local Jails: The real scandal is the churn (Created: 2022)
- Why are so many people detained in jails before trial? They're not wealthy enough to afford money bail. (Created: 2022)
- Incarceration in Indian Country jails and Native incarceration in local jails has exploded since 2000 (Created: 2021)
- The number of Native people in jails depends on how you count them (Created: 2021)
- Who else would be locked up if the county had a bigger jail, according to local law enforcement and judicial officials? (Created: 2021)
- More than half of all jail deaths occur within a month of admission (Created: 2021)
- From 2008 to 2018, women's jail populations grew while men's jail populations shrank (Created: 2021)
- Women in jail died of drug and alcohol intoxication at nearly twice the rate of men in 2018 (Created: 2021)
- Women's jail incarceration rates are highest in rural and other smaller counties, lowest in urban counties (Created: 2021)
- Pretrial detention rates are climbing fastest in rural counties despite dropping slightly in urban counties (Created: 2021)
- Prisons and jails will separate millions of mothers from their children in 2021 (Created: 2021)
- Jail populations dropped more in cities that avoided increasing jail budgets (Created: 2021)
- Jail populations dropped by 25% early in the pandemic (Created: 2021)
- The U.S. incarceration rate in jails alone exceeds the total incarceration rate of its peers (Created: 2021)
- Black and Latinx people experienced less jail decarceration than white people in 2020 (Created: 2021)
- Jail populations are returning to pre-pandemic levels, despite rising COVID-19 case rates across the country (Created: 2020)
- Expanding jails in Indian country enabled more incarceration, rather than solving problems that led to overcrowding (Created: 2020)
- As in other places, jail expansion in Indian country meant more pretrial detention and longer jail stays (Created: 2020)
- The NYC jail population decline has halted, despite the ongoing pandemic (Created: 2020)
- At least 4.9 million people are jailed each year (Created: 2020)
- People detained pretrial because they can’t pay bail are much poorer than their peers - and the income gaps are widest for Black people (Created: 2020)
- Pretrial populations, disproportionately Black and Hispanic, have more than doubled over 15 years (Created: 2020)
- Comparing jail and prison population reduction efforts (Created: 2020)
- Probation and parole is a leading cause of jail detention in many urban areas (Created: 2020)
- Supervision violations are a major driver of incarceration in many rural counties (Created: 2020)
- Jail mortality rates by cause of death, 2000-2016 (Created: 2020)
- Jail Suicide Rates: Out of step with the nation (and prisons) (Created: 2020)
- How many women are locked up in the United States? (2019) (Created: 2019)
- Pretrial policies drive jail growth (Created: 2019)
- People in jail are five times more likely than the general population to have a serious mental illness (Created: 2019)
- People in jail are eight times more likely to have a substance use disorder (Created: 2019)
- Johnson County, Iowa's reforms cut the jail population by nearly half in just 6 years (Created: 2019)
- After entering the LEAD program, participants were less than half as likely to be charged with a felony (Created: 2019)
- Visualizing 10.6 million jail admissions each year (Created: 2018)
- Local jail population, 1940-2015 (Created: 2017)
- Local jail incarceration rate, 1940-2015 (Created: 2017)
- Jail incarceration rates by state, 2013 (Created: 2017)
- Jail growth by state, 1983-2013 (Created: 2017)
- Percent of people in jail who are pre-trial/unconvicted (Created: 2017)
- Percent of people in jail who are being held for federal or state authorities (Created: 2017)
- What's actually driving jail growth? (Created: 2017)
- Jail conviction status, by state, 1978-2013 (Created: 2017)
- Jail and prison populations, by state, 1978-2015 (Created: 2017)
- Most suicides in jail occur within the first week (Created: 2016)
- Racial disparity in who is locked up in jails (Created: 2016)
- Where are those sentenced to state or federal prison time being held? (Created: 2016)
- Jail population by conviction status, 1983-2014 (Created: 2016)
- What guidelines do states have for regulating jail mail? (Created: 2016)
- The path from arrest to pretrial detention (Created: 2016)
- People in jail are poor, unable to meet bail (Created: 2016)
- Local jails: Annual admissions far outpace daily population (Created: 2015)
- Convicted and non-convicted people in local jails (Created: 2015)
- Local jail population, 1978-2012 (Created: 2014)
- Blacks are overrepresented in Franklin County, MA jail (Created: 2004)
- State prisoners in local jails, 1999 (Created: 2004)
