For incarceration data to be used by state you need to exclude federal prisons and their populations since prisoners can be assigned to states other than the one they committed their crime in, which is likely what you are looking for. Or create a seperate analysis for them.
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For incarceration data to be used by state you need to exclude federal prisons and their populations since prisoners can be assigned to states other than the one they committed their crime in, which is likely what you are looking for. Or create a seperate analysis for them.