If African Americans and Hispanics were incarcerated at the same rates as whites, prison and jail populations would decline by almost 40%. NAACP Criminal Justice Fact Sheet → Read More Miles GoschaJanuary 10, 2020
In New York, black people constituted 15% of state residents, but 43% of people in jail and 48% of people in prison. Vera Institute of Justice → Read More Miles GoschaJanuary 10, 2020
In 2017, the imprisonment rate for African American women was nearly twice the rate of imprisonment for white women. The Sentencing Project → Read More Miles GoschaJanuary 10, 2020
The median annual income before incarceration for black women who are in jail and unable to post bail is just over $9,000; the median felony bail is $10,000. Prison Policy Initiative → Read More Miles GoschaJanuary 10, 2020
Each year the U.S. books more people into local jail than the populations of New York City and Los Angeles combined. The Bail Project → Read More Miles GoschaJanuary 10, 2020
About 2 million women and girls are released from prisons and jails every year. Prison Policy Initiative → Read More Miles GoschaJanuary 10, 2020
Taxpayers spend an estimated $14 billion annually incarcerating people who haven’t been convicted of anything. The Bail Project → Read More Miles GoschaJanuary 10, 2020
In New York in 2015, pretrial detainees, people who had not been convicted of anything, constituted 69% of the total jail population. Vera Institute of Justice → Read More Miles GoschaJanuary 10, 2020
Every year, more than 600,000 people enter prisons in the US, but people go to jail 10.6 million times each year. Prison Policy Initiative → Read More Miles GoschaJanuary 10, 2020
The jail at Rikers Island costs New York City taxpayers $2.4 billion annually, or more than $208,000 for each person incarcerated there (at a rate of $570 per night). Vera Institute of Justice → Read More Miles GoschaJanuary 10, 2020
2,879,000 women are jailed in the U.S. each year; 80% of them are mothers, including nearly 150,000 who are pregnant when admitted. Prison Policy Initiative → Read More Miles GoschaJanuary 10, 2020
According to an investigation, nearly one-third of the deaths found in jails were suicides. And at least one-third of people died within three days of being booked. The Huffington Post → Read More Miles GoschaJanuary 10, 2020
Only 4% of the world’s female population lives in the U.S., but it accounts for over 30% of the world’s incarcerated women. Prison Policy Initiative → Read More Miles GoschaJanuary 10, 2020
Since 1980, the number of women in New York’s jails has increased 190%, and the number of women in prison has increased 272%. Vera Institute of Justice → Read More Miles GoschaJanuary 10, 2020
