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
Private prisons
Data on the private prison industry
- 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)
- In the modern world, only rogue nations execute juvenile offenders (Created: 2004)
- State prisoners in private prisons, 1999 (Created: 2004)
- Private prison population 1987-2001 (Created: 2003)
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