TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Jul 5, 2024

A new report released by the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank Prison Policy Initiative found that Tennessee has the ninth-highest incarceration rate in the world based on population if each U.S. state were considered its own country, according to the Tennessee Lookout. Tennessee has more than 55,000 people in local jails or state and federal prisons. Seven other states, mainly in the South, and El Salvador are the only places that have higher rates of people in jails or prisons. The report analyzes prison data from various U.S. counties, states and other countries, using population data to find which ones have the most people incarcerated. Read the full report here