Explore the data

Filter U.S. county jail and prison data from 2000–2019 and see the numbers and charts update live. All calculations run in your browser from the same cleaned data file used in the report.

Year range –

State

County

Region

Urbanicity

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County-year rows in view

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Total jail population (sum over view)

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Jail rate per 100,000 adults

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Pretrial share of jail population

County map

County boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau (2014 cartographic boundary files, via plotly/datasets). Hover a county for its value; gray counties have no data for the current filters and year.

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Composition

Numbers behind the current view

Rows follow the "By category" chart's current breakdown, using the filters above.