John,
A new analysis [[link removed]] by The Sentencing Project reveals that after 50 years since the onset of mass incarceration, and despite recent downsizing of most state prison populations, the pace of decarceration is insufficient to undo the decades of unrelenting growth. At the current pace of decarceration, averaging 2.3% annually since 2009, it would take 75 years—until 2098—to return to 1972’s pre-mass incarceration prison population.
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Findings from the report include:
*
By
year
end
2021,
the
U.S.
prison
population
had
declined
25%
since
reaching
its
peak
in
2009.
Still,
the
1.2
million
people
imprisoned
in
2021
were
nearly
six
times
the
prison
population
50
years
ago,
before
the
prison
population
began
its
dramatic
growth.


*
Overall,
the
number
of
people
imprisoned
for
a
violent
offense
has
declined
by
only
10%
between
peak
year
2009
and
2020,
despite
violent
crimes
falling
by
50%
between
peak
year
1991
and
2020.


*
Several
states
have
seen
significant
declines
in
crime,
sometimes
outpacing
nationwide
crime
trends.
For
example,
between
1999
and
2020,
when
New
York
more
than
halved
its
prison
population,
the
state’s
violent
crime
rate
fell
by
38%
while
the
U.S.
violent
crime
rate
fell
by
24%.



Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Co-Director of Research and author of report [[link removed]] Nazgol Ghandnoosh
Co-Director of Research
Email: [email protected] [[email protected]]
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The title for this campaign, 50 Years and a Wake Up: Ending the Mass Incarceration Crisis In America, was born out of a colloquial phrase that incarcerated people sometimes use to describe the length of their sentence, plus one day (e.g. “I have 20 years and a wake up”).
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