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dc.contributor.authorWagner, Peter-
dc.contributor.authorSawyer, Wendy-
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-05T19:12:34Z-
dc.date.available2022-08-05T19:12:34Z-
dc.date.issued2018-03-
dc.identifier.urihttp://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp010g354j40q-
dc.descriptionCan it really be true that most people in jail are being held before trial? And how much of mass incarceration is a result of the war on drugs? These questions are harder to answer than you might think, because our country’s systems of confinement are so fragmented. The various government agencies involved in the justice system collect a lot of critical data, but it is not designed to help policymakers or the public understand what’s going on. Meaningful criminal justice reform that reduces the massive scale of incarceration, however, requires that we start with the big picture. This report offers some much needed clarity by piecing together this country’s disparate systems of confinement. The American criminal justice system holds almost 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 1,852 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,163 local jails, and 80 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S. territories. And we go deeper to provide further detail on why people are locked up in all of those different types of facilities.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.urihttps://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018.htmlen_US
dc.subjectPrisons—United States—Statisticsen_US
dc.subjectMass incarceration—United Statesen_US
dc.titleMass incarceration: The whole pie 2018en_US
pu.projectgrantnumber690-1011-
pu.depositorKnowlton, Steven-
dc.publisher.placeNorthampton, MAen_US
dc.publisher.corporatePrison Policy Initiativeen_US
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