Incarceration Trends in

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Incarceration in Local Jails and State Prisons

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In 2017, Black people were in prison at 6.2 times the rate of white people.

Since 1980, the number of women in jail has increased 362% and the number of women in prison has increased 239%.

Between 2005 and 2015, the jail population in Ogemaw County increased 215%.

Total Number of People in County Jails and State Prisons, 2015

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Three Advocates on the Lasting Legacy and Hopeful Future of the Criminal Justice Reform Movement

“A generation from now, what kind of American society we live in will turn, in part, on reducing the populations of jails and prisons, and successfully reintegrating formerly jailed people into the community and the economy.” Learn more about Vera’s work to end overincarceration in rural communities.

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In 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered an address in which he asked: What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. Sadly, 245 years after the United States declared its independence, “freedom” remains ina ...

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