HELP US END MASS INCARCERATION
The Prison Policy Initiative uses research, advocacy, and organizing to dismantle mass incarceration. We’ve been in this movement for 24 years, thanks to individual donors like you.
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Thank you,
Peter Wagner, Executive Director Donate
Private prisons
Data on the private prison industry
- Where did federal agencies detain people when they ramped up immigration detention? Most often, in local jails (Created: 2025)
- Only 8% of confined people are held in private prisons (Created: 2025)
- Where are those sentenced to state or federal prison time being held? (Created: 2016)
- Growth of private prisons (Created: 2015)
- Public and Private Prisons, 1999-2014 (Created: 2015)
- Public and Private Prisons, 1999-2012 (Created: 2014)
- State prisoners in private prisons, 1999 (Created: 2004)
- Private prison population 1987-2001 (Created: 2003)
