Valley Justice Coalition
Weekly Monday Noon Meeting since 2014.
Serving Rockingham County and Harrisonburg, Virginia
  • About
    • Mission and Vision
    • History
    • Contact
  • Learn
    • Criminal Justice System Overview
    • Documentary
    • Local Criminal Justice System Structure
    • News Sources
    • Data
    • Behavioral health
      • Mental Illness and Jail in Virginia
      • Bexar County Mental Health Diversion Model
      • Drug Use Trends in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County
      • Substance Abuse Treatment Services
      • Chesterfield HARP Model
    • Parole in Virginia
    • Immediate Sanctions Program
    • Mass Incarceration
    • Politics
      • City and County Budget Process
      • Community organizing resources
      • Virginia Freedom of Information Act Requests
  • Campaigns
    • End Money Bail
    • Hire a Community Justice Planner
    • Eliminate the Jail Keep Fee
    • Release elderly prisoners
    • Stop Using Driver Licenses to Enforce Court Fees
    • Past Campaigns
  • Programs
    • Speakers Bureau
    • Letter Writing
    • Prison Visitation
    • With Visitation Hospitality Center
    • Citizen Circles
    • Data Sharing Initiative
    • Surveys
  • News
  • Get Involved

Mass Incarceration

The Incarceration rate in the United States is far higher than any other founding NATO member at 698 per 100,000 population, compared with 139 per 100,000 in the UK, which has the second highest incarceration rate.

For a brief introduction to the problem of mass incarceration in America, see Daniel Nott.

For a more thorough study, see the consensus report from the National Research Council, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences.

For a pie chart of all incarcerated persons in the United States separated by the immediate crimes they are accused of, see Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2019 from the Prison Policy Initiative.

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