I need your help.
I co-founded the Prison Policy Initiative to put the problem of mass incarceration — and the perverse incentives that fuel it — on the national agenda. Over the last 17 years, our campaigns have protected our democracy from the prison system and protected the poorest families in this country from the predatory prison telephone industry. Our reports untangle the statistics and recruit new allies.
But now, more than ever, we need your help to put data & compassion into the conversation. Any gift you can make today will be matched by other donors and go twice as far.
Thank you.
—Peter Wagner, Executive DirectorDonate
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But now, more than ever, we need your help to put data & compassion into the conversation. Any gift you can make today will be matched by other donors and go twice as far.
Thank you.
—Peter Wagner, Executive DirectorDonate
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 (11) 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 (53) Individual and institutional financial costs and impacts
- Education (11) Education attainment, access to educational programs, & literacy
- Families (3) How incarceration affects families
- Gender (35) Disparities relating to gender
- Geography-based punishments (18) 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 (8) How the U.S. stacks up globally
- Jails (32)
- 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 (22)
- Prison gerrymandering (92) How the prison system distorts legislative redistricting
- Private prisons (7) Data on the private prison industry
- Public opinion (2) Polling data & more
- Race & ethnicity (66) 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
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