Data: Bureau of Justice Statistics; Chart: Axios Visuals Between the lines: Between 2021-2022, Texas' female prison population increased about 8% while the male prison population increased 4%.

Data: The Marshall Project via U.C. Irvine and Brigham and Women's Hospital; Note: Rates calculated using prison populations at the start of each year; Chart ... than the free population during ...

Since 2010, The Texas Tribune has published information about Texas’ more than 100 prison units and the tens of thousands of people housed inside them. The data was provided by the Texas ...

This week government figures are likely to show the prison population back to where it was before the last early release scheme. But even though hundreds of prisoners have served only 40% of ...

While the state has made progress in reducing its overall prison population, this demographic of aging inmates has doubled since 2009 and almost quadrupled since 2000. The older population ...

“The POA have put our concerns about a rising prison population in the public domain for the last 10 years. “You will always need prisons to protect the public from serious criminality, but there is ...