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Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Population size & incarceration rate
- After rapidly dropping their populations at the very start of the pandemic, jails have allowed their populations to creep back up (Created: 2021)
- State prison populations haven't dropped nearly enough during the pandemic, any many are actually growing in 2021 (Created: 2021)
- From 2008 to 2018, women's jail populations grew while men's jail populations shrank (Created: 2021)
- Pretrial detention rates are climbing fastest in rural counties despite dropping slightly in urban counties (Created: 2021)
- The average number of people released from state prisons each month has been falling since 2019, despite the urgent need to decarcerate during the pandemic (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)
- Lesbian and bisexual women are overrepresented in prisons and local jails (Created: 2021)
- Parole boards held fewer hearings and failed to say "yes" more often, ultimately approving fewer people for parole during the pandemic (Created: 2021)
- The prison population drops during the pandemic appear to be the result of fewer admissions, not increasing releases (Created: 2021)
- More people were released from prison in 2019 than during the pandemic (Created: 2021)
- Lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are incarcerated at three times the rate of straight people (Created: 2021)
- While some state prison populations continue to decline, efforts to reduce prison populations have slowed and even reversed in some states (Created: 2020)
- Racial disparities in men's imprisonment persist across all ages (Created: 2020)
- Prison population drops in many states slowed or reversed in July, August, and September, despite the continued spread of COVID-19 (Created: 2020)
- Racial disparities in prison incarceration rates, by sex, 2018 (Created: 2020)
- U.S. incarceration rates by race (Created: 2020)
- Compassionate release was never designed to release large numbers of people (Created: 2020)
- How many people are locked up in the United States? (Created: 2020)
- Pre-trial detention in different parts of the justice system (Created: 2020)
- Federal correctional systems overview (Created: 2020)
- Involuntary commitment in the justice system (Created: 2020)
- Correctional control extends far beyond incarceration (Created: 2020)
- Incarceration by offense type in the federal system (Created: 2020)
- Number of people in local jail over time, by conviction status (Created: 2020)
- Local Jails: The real scandal is the churn (Created: 2020)
- Private prisons are a small piece of the pie (Created: 2020)
- Mass incarceration directly impacts millions of people (Created: 2020)
- Despite reforms, drug offenses are still a defining characteristic of the federal system (Created: 2020)
- High imprisonment communities have lower 5th grade ELA scores (Created: 2020)
- High imprisonment communities have lower 5th grade math scores (Created: 2020)
- High imprisonment communities have higher youth asthma rates (Created: 2020)
- High imprisonment communities have higher poverty rates (Created: 2020)
- High imprisonment communities have higher unemployment rates (Created: 2020)
- 1 out of 5 prisoners in the world is incarcerated in the U.S. (Created: 2020)
- How many youths are locked up in the United States? (Created: 2019)
- How many women are locked up in the United States? (Created: 2019)
- Long sentences for violence account for over half of all state prison growth from 1980 to 2010 (Created: 2019)
- Incarceration pie chart and correctional control pie chart by state (Created: 2018)
- Incarceration growth in 80's and 90's dwarfs recent declines (Created: 2018)
- U.S. incarceration rate compare to that of other founding NATO members (Created: 2018)
- Comparing the incarceration rates of U.S. states to other, similar, countries (Created: 2018)
- Comparing the women's incarceration rates of U.S. states to other, similar, countries (Created: 2018)
- Immigration detention and incarceration by different agencies (Created: 2018)
- Incarceration for drug offense in different parts of the justice system (Created: 2018)
- State policy drives women's incarceration growth - rates (Created: 2018)
- State policy drives women's incarceration growth - raw numbers (Created: 2018)
- Women's state prison populations have grown faster than men's (Created: 2018)
- Women's prison incarceration rate: select states and all 50 states (Created: 2018)
- Women's and men's incarceration numbers and rates by state, 1978-2015 (Created: 2018)
- Local jail population, 1940-2015 (Created: 2017)
- State policy drives mass incarceration (rates per 100,000) (Created: 2017)
- Local jail incarceration rate, 1940-2015 (Created: 2017)
- District of Columbia prison and jail incarceration rates, 1978-2015 (Created: 2017)
- District of Columbia prison and jail populations (Created: 2017)
- What's actually driving jail growth? (Created: 2017)
- Jail and prison incarceration rates by state, 1978-2015 (Created: 2017)
- Jail conviction status, by state, 1978-2013 (Created: 2017)
- Jail and prison populations, by state, 1978-2015 (Created: 2017)
- State policy drives mass incarceration (numbers) (Created: 2016)
- Jail population by conviction status, 1983-2014 (Created: 2016)
- National imprisonment rate by age, 1993-2013 (Created: 2016)
- Types of correctional control by size (Created: 2015)
- Women's Incarceration Rate: United States 1910-2014 (Created: 2015)
- Comparing Iowa's incarceration rate to other states, 1978-2013 (Created: 2015)
- Imprisonment rates in Texas, 1983-2013 (Created: 2015)
- Admissions to and releases from Texas correctional facilities, 1983-2013 (Created: 2015)
- Racial/ethnic parity in U.S. correctional facilities, 2005 (Created: 2015)
- High Incarceration Communities in Baltimore (Created: 2015)
- Higher Incarceration Communities in Baltimore (Created: 2015)
- Highest Incarceration Community in Baltimore (Created: 2015)
- Maryland Taxpayers Spend $288M on Corrections in Baltimore (Created: 2015)
- Maryland Taxpayer Spending on Corrections in Baltimore by Community Statistical Area (Created: 2015)
- State prison incarceration rate: Select states and all 50 states (Created: 2014)
- Regional state prison incarceration rates, 1977-2010 (Created: 2014)
- State prison incarceration rate, 1978-2012 (Created: 2014)
- Local jail incarceration rate, 1978-2012 (Created: 2014)
- Federal prison incarceration rate, 1978-2012 (Created: 2014)
- State prison population, 1978-2012 (Created: 2014)
- Local jail population, 1978-2012 (Created: 2014)
- Federal prison population, 1978-2012 (Created: 2014)
- Incarceration rates by state, 1978-2012 (Created: 2014)
- Incarceration rates by race/ethnicity and racial disparities by state, 2010 (Created: 2014)
- Differential incarceration rates in Holyoke, Springfield and Massachusetts (Created: 2012)
- Incarceration rate, 1925-2008 (Created: 2010)
- Maryland and Baltimore City: Population, Prisoners and Prison Cells (Created: 2010)
- Connecticut and Hartford: Population, Prisoners and Prison Cells (Created: 2010)
- Connecticut state incarceration rate, 1973-2008 (Created: 2010)
- Connecticut and New Haven: Population, Prisoners and Prison Cells (Created: 2010)
- Illinois state prisoners, 1970-2000 (Created: 2010)
- State prisoners in other state's prisons or in federal prisons (Created: 2010)
- Pennsylvania state prisoners, 1980-2000 (Created: 2009)
- U.S. Prison Proliferation, 1900-2000 (Created: 2005)
- Blacks are overrepresented in Franklin County, MA jail (Created: 2004)
- Racial disparities in incarceration by state, 2000 (Created: 2004)
- Incarceration rates by race, 2001 (Created: 2004)
- Where is New York's incarcerated population? (Created: 2004)
- Males are overrepresented in prisons and jails (Created: 2004)
- State prisoners in private prisons, 1999 (Created: 2004)
- State prisoners in local jails, 1999 (Created: 2004)
- Adults under criminal justice system control (Created: 2004)
- Disparities between Black and White incarceration rates, 2001 (Created: 2004)
- Number of prisoners per country (Created: 2004)
- Percent of the world's prisoners held by each country (Created: 2004)
- Countries with incarceration rates under 150 per 100,000 (Created: 2004)
- Global Incarceration Rates (Created: 2004)
- Pennsylvania's Institutional Populations 1982-2003 (Created: 2003)
- Incarceration rate, 1925-2001 (Created: 2003)
- Prisoners per 100,000 residents, emphasizing the low rate through the 1980 U.S. Census (Created: 2003)
- African American male population in higher education and in prison, 2000 (Created: 2003)
- Blacks overrepresented in Ohio prisons (Created: 2003)
- Racial disparities in North Carolina incarceration per 100,000 population (Created: 2003)
- Maryland incarceration rates by county and prison locations, 2000 (Created: 2003)
- North Carolina incarceration rates by county (Created: 2003)
- North Carolina state prisons (Created: 2003)
- North Carolina state prisons authorized for construction (Created: 2003)
- North Carolina state prisons built since 1990 (Created: 2003)
- North Carolina state prisons under construction (Created: 2003)
- Pennsylvania incarceration rates and prison locations by county, 2000 (Created: 2003)
- Growth in the New York State prison and drug prisoner populations (Created: 2002)
- The one-day count of youth in juvenile justice "residential placement" facilities has dropped by over 60 percent since 2000 (Created: 1969)
