Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania has an incarceration rate of 725 per 100,000 people (including prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile justice facilities), meaning that it locks up a higher percentage of its people than many wealthy democracies do.
Each year, at least 170,000 different people are booked into local jails in Pennsylvania.
In Pennsylvania, Black people constituted 11% of state residents, but 37% of people in jail and 47% of people in prison.

Pennsylvania’s youth incarceration rate is the seventh highest in the nation, according to data from the Justice Department, and imprisons far more children of color.
In 2015, the state had 2,826 juveniles in facilities, with black children outnumbering white children more than 9-to-1.
Many of these youth were away from home and disconnected from their families and other supports for long periods: 1,870 youth experienced out-of-home placements of more than 28 days in 2018 as a part of a delinquency disposition, and the median length of stay in out-of-home placement was.

Since 1980, the number of women in jail in Pennsylvania has increased 1,023%, and the number of women in prison has increased 966%.
The number of women in Pennsylvania’s jails has increased more than 19-fold, from 242 in 1970 to 4,754 in 2015.
The number of women in Pennsylvania’s prisons has increased more than 12-fold, from 215 in 1978 to 2,793 in 2017.

Nearly 1,600 Pennsylvanians died by gun violence in 2019, an average of four people every day.
In 2015, in PA, there were 1485 firearms deaths: 533 of which were homicides and 932 of which were suicides.

In 2019, 112 victims lost their lives to domestic violence in Pennsylvania. This number includes 68 females and 44 males.
In the last 10 years, more than 1,600 people have died from domestic violence-related incidents in Pennsylvania.
In 2006, 64 women were killed as a result of domestic violence.

Approximately 5,349 children in Pennsylvania specifically have a mother incarcerated in a Pennsylvania state prison. About 72 percent of females incarcerated in Pennsylvania state prison have at least one child.
In 2011-2012, 7 percent of all PA children had the experience of an incarcerated parent.
In Pennsylvania, about 81,100 children have a parent in state prison, according to 2014 data from the state’s Department of Corrections. Those numbers do not include children with parents in federal prisons or county jails.