Trends in Corrections – A Visual Tool

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By National Institute of Corrections

Published: 05/29/2012

Focusing on trends over the past several decades, The Sentencing Project has released a set of fifteen charts, Trends in U.S. Corrections, that provide a compilation of key developments in the criminal justice system. Among the issues featured in this collection are:

Rate of incarceration from 1925 to 2010
International comparisons of incarceration rates
Changes in the drug offender composition of prison populations over time
Racial/ethnic disparities by gender in incarceration
Increases in the number of people serving life sentences and life without parole since the 1980s
Trends in the number of juveniles held in adult prisons and jails since 1985
Increases in state corrections expenditures from 1985 to 2010

For additional information concerning trends in corrections: NIC's Environmental Scan 2011

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