Data Visualizations:
The Prison Policy Initiative creates data visualizations to drive our points home and empower others to make their own demands for justice.
- Staff picks (16)
- Age (6) Disparities relating to age
- Animation (3) Data in motion
- Collateral consequences (10)
- Communication (22) Understanding access to internet, phones, mail, and video
- Correctional control (14) Supervision extending beyond prison walls: probation, parole, and civil commitment
- Court system (4) The judicial process and systems
- Death penalty (4)
- Disenfranchisement (1) Barring people from the polls because of criminal convictions
- Drug Policy (4) Analysis of drug policy and its effects on the prison system
- Economics (55) Individual and institutional financial costs and impacts
- Education (11) Education attainment, access to educational programs, & literacy
- Families (3) How incarceration affects families
- Gender (39) Disparities relating to gender
- Geography-based punishments (20) Criminalizing not activities, but spaces
- Gun control (2) Gun access & gun violence
- Healthcare (4) The health needs and outcomes of incarcerated people
- Immigration (3) The overlap of immigration and criminal law
- International comparisons (10) How the U.S. stacks up globally
- Jails (34)
- LGBTQ (1)
- Mental health (7) Policy and practice of mental health
- Mortality (18) Death and dying
- Other (3) Miscellaneous visualizations
- Police & policing (15) Presence, practices, and policies of police
- Population size & incarceration rate (89)
- Poverty & wealth (24)
- Prison gerrymandering (94) How the prison system distorts legislative redistricting
- Private prisons (7) Data on the private prison industry
- Public opinion (2) Polling data & more
- Race & ethnicity (68) Disparities relating to race and ethnicity
- Recidivism & reentry (12) What makes people more or less likely to succeed upon release?
- Sentencing policy (11)
- Sex offenses (6) The policy and practice of responding to sexual offenses
- State profiles (50) State-level visualizations
- Youth (21) Juvenile justice and the prison system's effect on children
