From Prison Policy Initiative:
Easthampton, Mass. — Ten years after publishing the first edition, today the Prison Policy Initiative released the 2024 version of its flagship report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie. The report provides the most comprehensive picture of how many people are locked up in the U.S., in what types of facilities, and why. In addition to showing that more than 1.9 million people are behind bars on any given day in the U.S., it goes on to bust 10 of the most persistent myths about prisons, jails, crime, and more.
The report includes 34 visualizations of criminal legal system data, exposing long-standing truths about incarceration in the U.S., including:
Many people in jail pretrial are stuck there simply because they’re too poor to pay their cash bail amount.
Black people are overrepresented behind bars, making up about 42% of the prison and jail populations but only 14% of all U.S. residents.
Technical violations — rather than new crimes — are the main reason people on probation or parole are re-incarcerated.
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