Poverty & wealth
- Copay exemptions are surprisingly rare for some of the most basic types of medical care (Created: 2025)
- In more than one-third of prison systems, the fee for a single medical visit is more than incarcerated people earn in a week (Created: 2025)
- Most people in prison are poor, and the poorest are women and people of color (Created: 2025)
- Of those who are jailed, unhoused people are more likely to be booked into jail multiple times in a year (Created: 2024)
- Most jurisdictions require people on probation to pay monthly fees and other costs of supervision (Created: 2024)
- The most vulnerable people in prison often do not receive the medical care they need (Created: 2024)
- Economic inequality has grown in lockstep with mass incarceration (Created: 2024)
- Many people in jail are there simply because they can't afford money bail (Created: 2024)
- People who experience homelessness are arrested at extremely high rates in Atlanta — and largely for being poor (Created: 2023)
- Across sex and race, people on probation and parole have lower incomes than the general population (Created: 2023)
- Incarcerated parents often grew up in struggling households (Created: 2022)
- Before incarceration, people in state prisons struggled disproportionately with unemployment and homelessness (Created: 2022)
- Early experiences of homelessness and poverty among the 29 transgender respondents (Created: 2022)
- Formerly incarcerated people earn far less than the general population (Created: 2022)
- Formerly incarcerated people face alarming rates of joblessness (Created: 2022)
- Many prisons are still charging medical copays during COVID-19 (Created: 2022)
- Formerly incarcerated people are twice as likely to experience food insecurity (Created: 2021)
- Most people with a history of incarceration and homelessness were homeless before going to prison (Created: 2021)
- Black people in Connecticut are disproportionately impacted by homelessness and incarceration (Created: 2021)
- Most people in prison are poor, and the poorest are women and people of color (Created: 2020)
- Incarceration and wealth accumulation, by race & ethnicity (Created: 2020)
- High imprisonment communities have higher unemployment rates (Created: 2020)
- High imprisonment communities have higher poverty rates (Created: 2020)
- "Frequent utilizers" of jails often face extreme economic disadvantages (Created: 2019)
- Misdemeanor warrants dropped by over 20% in one year after Texas passed fines and fees reform (Created: 2019)
- People on probation are much more likely to be low-income (Created: 2019)
- Annual prison commissary sales in Washington, per person (Created: 2018)
- Annual prison commissary sales in Illinois, per person (Created: 2018)
- Annual prison commissary sales in Massachusetts, per person (Created: 2018)
- Annual prison commissary sales in three states (Ill., Mass., Wash.), 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)
- People in jail are poor, 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 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)
- Incarcerated people earn substantially less prior to their incarceration than their non-incarcerated counterparts (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)
