The Prison Crisis
Pew Trust Facts
The Sentencing Project, Trends in Corrections Facts Sheet

Spending it on the Slammer
National Institute of Corrections
Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2013
VERA Institute of Justice, The Price of Prisons
VERA Institute of Justice, The Price of Prisons, 40 States Facts Sheet

High Costs Low Return
Recividism Facts
Bureau of Justice Statistics, State Corrections Expenditures, 1982-2010
Bureau of Justice Statistics, State Corrections Expenditures, 1982-2010

Credits
Skyler Rodriguez Information design, coding, animation
Karen Cheng, Instructor for Information Visualization, UW Design
Extra Special Thank you to Charlotte Ziob, Chip Lim, Roy Kim, Rishi Agarwal, and Joey Zingarelli,