{"id":7304,"date":"2024-04-18T19:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T23:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/votingaccessforall.org\/?p=7304"},"modified":"2024-04-18T19:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T23:25:21","slug":"new-data-and-visualizations-spotlight-states-reliance-on-excessive-jailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/votingaccessforall.org\/es\/2024\/04\/new-data-and-visualizations-spotlight-states-reliance-on-excessive-jailing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuevos datos y visualizaciones destacan la dependencia de los estados del encarcelamiento excesivo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This article was originally published by Prison Policy Initiative as “New data and visualizations spotlight states\u2019 reliance on excessive jailing<\/a>,” authored by Emily Widra<\/p>\n

One out of every three<\/a> people behind bars is being held in a local jail, yet jails get almost none of the attention that prisons do. In 2017, we published an in-depth analysis of local jail populations in each state: Era of Mass Expansion: Why State Officials Should Fight Jail Growth<\/i><\/a>. We paid particular attention to the various drivers of jail incarceration \u2014 including pretrial practices and holding people in local jails for state and federal authorities \u2014 and we explained how jails impact our entire criminal legal system and millions of lives every year. In the years since that publication, many states have passed reforms aimed at reducing jail populations, but we still see the same trends playing out: too many people are confined in local jails, and the reasons for their confinement do not justify the overwhelming costs of our nation\u2019s reliance on excessive jailing.
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