Prison/Jail Buffer of Prison Boundaries in 2018 in the 4 Corner States

Prison/Jail Buffer of Prison Boundaries in 2018 in the 4 Corner States

This map shows the 2018 incarceration prevalence along with a buffer zone around each prison/jail in the county.

The map is intended to show which prisons/jails would be contributors to the incarceration prevalence in the respective county. There are approximately seven prisons/jails that contribute to the highest incarceration rates in the four corner states.

James Jorrelle Moore

County Census Tract: Bureau, U. (2020, December 14). Tiger/line shapefiles. Retrieved March 29, 2021, from https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.2018.html

Hudson, K. (2020, August 07). Prison boundaries. Retrieved March 12, 2021, from https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/2d6109d4127d458eaf0958e4c5296b67_0?geometry=-141.689%2C-3.069%2C121.983%2C75.954

Incarceration Trends: Incarceration trends. (n.d.). Retrieved March 12, 2021, from http://trends.vera.org/incarceration-rates?data=localjail

Website maintained by Chantel Sloan, Associate Professor in the Public Health Department at Brigham Young University

The map is dated 2018

James Jorrelle Moore

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The map shows county population data with Prison and Jail total population. It also shows the regions around each Prison/Jail that would have contributed to the incarceration rates.