But 14 counties I evaluated (such as Philadelphia County and Los Angeles County) still have disproportionately high prison incarceration rates compared to the rest of their states. With many large cities currently making criminal justice reform a priority – and with the highest rates of incarceration now in small cities and towns – you might expect large cities to be less punitive than the states they belong to. Total State Prison Incarceration: Rate per 100,000 residents (BJS state incarceration rates are for the jurisdictional population sentenced to greater than 1 year.) StateĬounty Residents in State Prisons: Rate per 100,000 residents In its Incarceration Trends tool, the Vera Institute presents rates for counties per every 100,000 residents aged 15-64 we calculated the rates using the total populations in their downloadable dataset to make them comparable with the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ total state incarceration rates. Using that tool, we calculated the imprisonment rates of the most populous counties in 39 states (all those where data were available) – and uncovered a few surprises. Because of the decentralized nature of criminal justice data, drilling down to the city level is difficult-to-impossible, but now you can calculate the prison (but not jail) incarceration rate of a city’s surrounding county using the Vera Institute’s Incarceration Trends Database. How has mass incarceration impacted the city you live in? This question frequently drives our readers to ask about the incarceration rates of specific cities. How America’s major urban centers compare on incarceration rates An index of the incarceration rates of the most populous counties in 39 states.
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