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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp013j333544f| Title: | Mass incarceration: The whole pie 2015 |
| Contributors: | Wagner, Peter Rabuy, Bernadette |
| Keywords: | Prisons—United States—Statistics Mass incarceration—United States |
| Issue Date: | Dec-2015 |
| Publisher: | Prison Policy Initiative |
| Place of Publication: | Northampton, MA |
| Description: | Wait, does the United States have 1.4 million or more than 2 million people in prison? And do the 636,000 people released every year include the people getting out of local jails? Frustrating questions like these abound because our systems of federal, state, local, and other types of confinement — and the data collectors that keep track of them — are so fragmented. There is a lot of interesting and valuable research out there, but varying definitions and other incompatibilities make it hard — for both people new to criminal justice and for experienced policy wonks — to get 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 more than 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 2,259 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails, and 79 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and prisons in the U.S. territories. And we go deeper to provide further detail on why people in the various systems of confinement are locked up. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp013j333544f |
| Related resource: | https://www.prisonpolicy.org/factsheets.html |
| Appears in Collections: | Monographic reports and papers (Publicly Accessible) |
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