The Prison Policy Initiative released a deluge of data
Wednesday on United States prison population rates. The main take-away
of the data is nothing new: The U.S. prison population is the highest in
the world, and has grown exponentially since the 1970s, tracking the
rise of the so-called War on Drugs.
But for all the talk these past few months about the federal prison population — and the concerns there are urgent
— these charts call out the major perpetrators of the prison explosion:
the states, where incarceration rates have increased more than
fourfold:
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