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1 in 2 adults in America has had a family member in jail or prison. This is an incarceration crisis.

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1 in 2 people in the United States has had an immediate family member incarcerated.

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“These numbers are stunning, all the more so if you think of them not as numbers but as stories like mine.”
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Despite recent limited declines, our jail and prison populations are four times larger than in 1980.

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Incarceration rates per 100,000 people

And the US continues to incarcerate more people than any other country in the world.

These numbers are shocking, but they don’t even begin to capture the devastating impact incarceration has on families.

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Nearly half of all people living in the United States have experienced incarceration in their family.

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1 in 4 has had a sibling incarcerated

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1 in 5 has had a parent incarcerated

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1 in 7 has had a spouse or co-parent incarcerated

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1 in 8 has had a child incarcerated

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113 million adults in America

have had an immediate family member incarcerated and, right now, 6.5 million adults have an immediate family member currently incarcerated in jail or prison.

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Incarceration doesn’t care about a family’s political beliefs.

In fact, rates of family incarceration are nearly identical for Republicans (43 percent) and Democrats (45 percent).

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1 in 2 adults in America has had a family member in jail or prison.

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