the Prison Policy Initiative released Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2022, compiling national data sources to offer the most comprehensive view of how many people are locked up in the U.S. — and where they are being held — since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The report explains how the pandemic has impacted prison and jail populations, and pieces together the most recent national data on state prisons, federal prisons, local jails, and other systems of confinement to provide a snapshot of mass incarceration in the U.S.
“The Whole Pie should serve as a call to action for government to finally end our nation’s failed experiment of mass incarceration.”
The Prison Policy Initiative traditionally releases a new version of its Whole Pie report annually however, COVID-related delays in the release of government-produced data prevented the organization from releasing a new version in 2021.
Read the full report, with detailed data visualizations at: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2022.html.
The Nine Outliers:
1.) https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/TX.html Texas with 251,000 Prisoners.
2.) https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/CA.html California with 239,000 Prisoners.
3.) https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/FL.html Florida with 176,000 Prisoners.
4.) https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/GA.html Georgia with 102,000 Prisoners.
5.) https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/PA.html Pennsylvania with 91,000 Prisoners.
6.) https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/NY.html New York with 91,000 Prisoners.
7.) https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/OH.html Ohio with 78,000 Prisoners.
8.) https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/IL.html Illinois with 76,000 Prisoners.
9.) https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/VA.html Virginia with 69,000 Prisoners.
Combiner Total Totaling: 1,178,000 Prisoners Incarcerated so Half of the Total Prison Population in the United States is Incarcerated in those 9 States.