Public Data & Tools
Explore current trends in incarceration on our live public dashboards, created with our partners in North Dakota and Pennsylvania. Review 20 years of incarceration trends, including racial disparities, prison, and supervision populations.
Browse our directory of public policy memos, created for advocates and policymakers across the country. Memos project impact of on carceral, fiscal, and community outcomes.
Review or extend any of our work by visiting the source code on Github. All of our work is open source, so it can be extended by the community.
Review corrections data for all 50 states with Justice Counts, a Bureau of Justice Assistance project, developed in partnership with the Council for State Governments Justice Center.
See how reducing admissions to prison from probation and parole impacts costs with our Cost Calculator, developed in partnership with the Council for State Governments Justice Center
We’ve been tracking the outcomes from day one and made significant movement toward decarceration. Overall crime is lower, we have fewer prisons, and we’ve had the lowest increases in corrections spending in recent history.
John Wetzel, Former Secretary of Corrections, Pennsylvania
