I really don't think pretrial detention counts. There is a long-standing and legitimate public interest in detaining some people while they await trial. A cour

I really don't think pretrial detention counts. There is a long-standing and legitimate public interest in detaining some people while they await trial. A court can find you a flight risk, or a danger to society, during arraignment before your trial without violating your due process rights. And I'm not sure "the proportion of individuals held in jail pending trial" increasing means anything. What are the number of cases this correlates to? Have the raw or per capita numbers increased? What are the other reasons you could be held in jail other than pending trial, which apparently decreased from 44% to 34%? And not to be too overly pedantic, but the original question was about prison specifically which is distinctly different from jail.