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2017 was another big year for powerful data visualizations from the Prison Policy Initiative. Here is a list of nine salient research points accompanied by info graphics you can see by visiting the source article.
- Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie to aggregate the disparate systems of confinement and illustrates where and why 219,000 women are locked up in the U.S.:
- Follow the Money--The system of mass incarceration costs the government and families of justice-involved people at least $182 billion every year.
- Charging incarcerated people high fees for their own medical care- a 50 state analysis of medical co-pays in prison
- Relationship between state and local policies and criminal justice reform
- Tracking this country’s priorities and impact of prison system economies
- Racial discrimination and use of force in “stop and frisk” policing
- Exploring the causes of jail growth
- The rise of the “prosecutor politician”
Read the full article about data visualizations of prison statistics by Pete Wagner at Prison Policy Initiative.