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One chart that puts mass inarceration in historical context - Vox

13.10.15

One chart that puts mass inarceration in historical context - Vox: This chart is based on the number of people in state and federal prisons, per 100,000 adult US residents at the time. That's one major way the incarceration rate was measured during the early 20th century. (Unfortunately, the government wasn't as consistent in recording the jail population, so that's not included here — but rest assured that there are a lot more people in jail than ever before, as well.)

Recently, the government has stopped reporting the incarceration rate this way: partly because it's better at recording how many people are in jail, on probation, or on parole as well as in prison, but partly because the incarceration rate is so damn high that it's better expressed as a percentage — X per 100 — than as X per 100,000. We calculated the prison rate in recent years by dividing the Bureau of Justice Statistics' stats for state and federal prisoners by its estimate (and the Census Bureau's) of adult US residents.


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