One in 31; the Long Reach of American Corrections

In 2006, the Pew Center on the States launched the Public Safety Performance Project (PSPP) to help states advance fiscally sound, data-driven policies and practices in sentencing and corrections that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable, and control corrections costs. For this report, the researchers sought to examine the scale and cost of prison, jail, probation, and parole in each of the 50 states, and provide a blueprint for states to cut both crime and spending by reallocating prison expenses to fund stronger supervision of the large number of offenders in the community. They found the following prevalence:

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