New Report Provides Data on All Types of Correctional Control on a State-by- State Basis

Date:  06-02-2016 Pie charts for all 50 states shows how many people are locked up (and where) and how many people are in each state's justice system

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 1, 2016 Contact: Bernadette Rabuy brabuy @prisonpolicy.org Easthampton, MA — Prisons are just one piece of the correctional pie. Some of the seemingly less punitive states are actually the most likely to put their residents under some other form of correctional control, finds a new report by the Prison Policy Initiative. Correctional Control: Incarceration and Supervision by State builds off of the Prison Policy Initiative’s popular report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie, to provide the big picture of mass incarceration. “We often get requests for versions of the pie chart report for each state. Our new report responds to this request with over 100 graphs illustrating the breakdown of the criminal justice system in each state plus D.C.,” said co-author of the report, Peter Wagner. The report also includes an interactive chart that ranks each state and D.C. by rate of total correctional control, which includes incarceration, probation, and parole. Read the complete report here.