DATA TRACKER
How to Use
This tracker is a database of solitary confinement bills from 2009 to present day. Criminal justice advocates, government and law enforcement officials, and public citizens can freely access the Legislation Tracker to review state by state proposals and actions, as well as trend-based data visualizations
The data tracker is not available on mobile devices. Please check back on a desktop or laptop.
Use the tabs across the top of the Tableau Story to easily navigate between dashboards. Each dashboard can be filtered using the drop down menus on the right. There’s also a ‘How To’ guide on the last tab of the dashboard.
- Map View generates a map that can be filtered by bill type, vulnerable group, actions by year, and final status
- Annual Trends View shows a trend line view of bills that can be filtered by state, bill type, vulnerable group, and final status
- Trends Comparison View presents the number of total bills acted on compared to bills filtered by state, final status and/or bill type
- Vulnerable Groups by State is a chart and table showing filterable, state-by-state data of bills addressing any vulnerable group
- Bill Types by State is a chart and table showing filterable, state-by-state data of bills by bill type
- Table View is a full data set showing state, bill number, a brief bill summary, and other relevant information about each bill. It can be filtered and sorted in multiple ways
We’ve used the data available in the legislative tracker to compile our own report on the legislative state of solitary confinement in this country.
Banning Torture: Legislative Trends and Policy Solutions for Restricting and Ending Solitary Confinement throughout the United States, is the first-ever comprehensive, nationwide analysis of legislation related to solitary confinement. It brings us closer to achieving our ultimate aim of eliminating solitary confinement by empowering public and private sector advocates with information to engage with lawmakers.
