Trends in U.S. Corrections is a visual tool that provides a compilation of key developments in the criminal justice system over the past several decades. Among the issues featured in this publication are: rate of incarceration from 1925 to 2010; racial/ethnic disparities by gender in incarceration; increases in the number of people serving life sentences and life without parole since the 1980s; and increases in state corrections expenditures from 1985 to 2010