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There's a great graph[1] showing per capita US institutionalization rates from 1934-2000, differentiating between prison, mental institutions and the combined total. The aggregate rate of US institutionalization is about the same as it was in 1954ish, the holding pen has just changed.

The graph is from a blog post on Volokh Conspiracy[2] about a paper from American Criminal Law Review [3] entitled "Is Mass Incarceration Inevitable"

[1]https://d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net/img/q60/uploads/2019/1...

[2] https://reason.com/2019/10/08/in-mass-incarceration-inevitab...

[3] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3436933