I need your help.
I co-founded the Prison Policy Initiative to put the problem of mass incarceration — and the perverse incentives that fuel it — on the national agenda. Over the last 16 years, our campaigns have protected our democracy from the prison system and protected the poorest families in this country from the predatory prison telephone industry. Our reports untangle the statistics and recruit new allies.
But now, more than ever, we need your help to put data & compassion into the conversation.
Thank you.
—Peter Wagner, Executive DirectorDonate
But now, more than ever, we need your help to put data & compassion into the conversation.
Thank you.
—Peter Wagner, Executive DirectorDonate
Poverty & wealth
- Annual prison commissary sales in three states (Ill., Mass., Wash.), per person (Created: 2018)
- Annual prison commissary sales in Massachusetts, per person (Created: 2018)
- Annual prison commissary sales in Illinois, per person (Created: 2018)
- Annual prison commissary sales in Washington, per person (Created: 2018)
- Making health care unaffordable has many hidden costs (Created: 2017)
- Timeline of probation service fees charged in Massachusetts (Created: 2016)
- Lower income communities have higher probation rates (Created: 2016)
- Distribution of annual incomes for people in local jails unable to meet bail (Created: 2016)
- Distribution of monthly incomes for men in local jails and non-incarcerated men (Created: 2016)
- Distribution of monthly incomes for men unable to meet bail and non-incarcerated men (Created: 2016)
- Distribution of monthly incomes for women in local jails and non-incarcerated women (Created: 2016)
- Distribution of monthly incomes for women unable to meet bail and non-incarcerated women (Created: 2016)
- Wealth accumulation and incarceration by race & ethnicity (Created: 2016)
- Distribution of annual incomes for incarcerated men prior to incarceration and non-incarcerated men, ages 27-42 (Created: 2015)
- Distribution of annual incomes for incarcerated women prior to incarceration and non-incarcerated women, ages 27-42 (Created: 2015)
- Distribution of monthly incomes for incarcerated men prior to incarceration and non-incarcerated men, ages 27-42 (Created: 2015)
- Distribution of monthly incomes for incarcerated women prior to incarceration and non-incarcerated women, ages 27-42 (Created: 2015)
- Poor people have less access to high-speed internet and computers at home (Created: 2015)
- The poor, not the rich, are most often the victims of burglary (Created: 2012)
- Salaries for California teachers and correctional officers, 1996 (Created: 2003)
- Minimum wages in the United States, in Haiti and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (Created: 2003)
- Burglaries per 1,000 households, by income level (Created: 2003)
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