Incarceration 2021
1.8 million people were incarcerated in spring of 2021, the Vera Institute released an in-depth analysis of that data,The Des's highlights
The overall drop in incarceration can be deceiving. Though many people were released due to covid in 2021, more people were incarcerated in jails and waited longer than ever in pretrial detention. The Vera Institute released an deep look into states and counties prisons and jails for 2021. States like Montana had more people incarcerated overall where many other states saw overall drops.
Nationally
11 million: times people are sent to jails and prisons each year
The District of Columbia
+164%: change in the total number of people behind bars since 1970
61%: percent of the jail population held pretrial.
11,550: number of times people are sent to local jails annually.
Los Angeles County
Montana
+946%: change in the total number of people behind bars since 1970.
47%: percent of the jail population held pretrial.
45,919: number of times people are sent to local jails annually.
Read the whole data and compare certain counties here.
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