By the Numbers: Visual Representations of Incarceration Rates

Dec 1, 2011


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Incarceration rates are sky high, but this has not always been the case. This trend began in the 1970s and has increased to the present level since then.

Source: 1880-1970, Cahalan (1986); 1980-2008, CEPR analysis of BJS data.

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