Empire State of Incarceration
February 18, 2021
January 20, 2022
Special ReportBail reform, roll backs to that legislation, and the COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented changes in jail incarceration across New York State. Use this tool to understand these shifts at the state and county levels.
February 18, 2021
Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) researchers collected data on the number of people in local jails and state and federal prisons throughout 2020 and into spring 2021. Vera researchers estimated the incarcerated population using a sample of approximately 1,600 jail jurisdictions, 50 states, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Marshals Service (U ...
Data as of August 5, 2026
On August 25, 2026, the Deportation Data Project at the University of California, Berkeley posted its latest release of data obtained from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The release contains anonymized data on people detained in ICE's vast facility network through August 5, 2026. T ...