The report by Bernadette Rabuy and Daniel Kopf Under the Prison Policy Initiative sought to focus on the rising incarceration rates (1.6 million people) in federal and state prisons with 646,000 people locked up in more than 3,000 local jails Throughout the U.S.

The report single handedly based its focus off of data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ detailing felony defendants in Large Urban Counties series (with 24% of defendants were detained pretrial for the inability to post money bail in 2009). The report also alluded to underlying issues of race targeting based on the median annual income of people capping at  $15,109 prior to their incarceration, which is less than half (48%) of the median for non-incarcerated people of similar ages. In all, the authors argued for an end to criminal justice debt in the form of payment failure, implementing diversion programs that connect rehabilitation services, increasing funding for criminal defense access and an end to pay-to-stay program (Riverside County, California requires incarcerated people to pay $142 per day for their incarceration).

Prison Policy Initiative is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then advocacy campaigns through data analysis and graphics- to enhance awareness around pretrial detention and mass incarceration.

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• Recidivism