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 (12)
- Age (17) Disparities relating to age
- Animation (4) Data in motion
- Collateral consequences (19)
- Communication (39) Understanding access to internet, phones, mail, and video
- Correctional control (52) Supervision extending beyond prison walls: probation, parole, and civil commitment
- Court system (10) The judicial process and systems
- COVID-19 (33) Prison and jail responses to the pandemic
- Death penalty (17)
- Disenfranchisement (14) Barring people from the polls because of criminal convictions
- Drug Policy (12) Analysis of drug policy and its effects on the prison system
- Economics (48) Individual and institutional financial costs and impacts
- Education (17) Education attainment, access to educational programs, & literacy
- Families (18) How incarceration affects families
- Gender (83) Disparities relating to gender
- Geography-based punishments (21) Criminalizing not activities, but spaces
- Gun control (3) Gun access & gun violence
- Healthcare (66) The health needs and outcomes of incarcerated people
- Immigration (3) The overlap of immigration and criminal law
- International comparisons (18) How the U.S. stacks up globally
- Jails (91)
- LGBTQ (16)
- Mental health (19) Policy and practice of mental health
- Mortality (24) Death and dying
- Other (19) Miscellaneous visualizations
- Police & policing (47) Presence, practices, and policies of police
- Population size & incarceration rate (206)
- Poverty & wealth (49)
- Prison gerrymandering (95) How the prison system distorts legislative redistricting
- Prison programs (2) Programming available for incarcerated populations
- Prisoner labor (3) Work done in prison by incarcerated populations
- Private prisons (7) Data on the private prison industry
- Public opinion (3) Polling data & more
- Race & ethnicity (127) Disparities relating to race and ethnicity
- Recidivism & reentry (28) What makes people more or less likely to succeed upon release?
- Sentencing policy (15)
- Sex offenses (10) The policy and practice of responding to sexual offenses
- State profiles (50) State-level visualizations
- Youth (36) Juvenile justice and the prison system's effect on children
Events
- June 19-22, 2025:
Wanda Bertram, the Prison Policy Initiative’s Communications Strategist, will be at the Investigative Reporters & Editors conference in New Orleans. To connect with Wanda at the conference, reporters can email her directly at wbertram@prisonpolicy.org.
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