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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring crime, criminal victimization, criminal offenders, victims of crime, correlates of crime, and the operation of criminal and civil justice systems at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels.
This article has lists of US states and US territories by incarceration and correctional supervision rates. There are also counts of inmates for various categories. The data is from the United States Department of Justice and other sources. The incarceration numbers include sentenced and unsentenced inmates from many categories.
While the United States represented about 4.2 percent of the world's population in 2020, [6] it housed around 20 percent of the world's prisoners. [7] Corrections (which includes prisons, jails, probation, and parole) cost around $74 billion in 2007 according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).
The US had 2,173,800 prisoners in adult facilities in 2015. [6] That means the US held 21.0% of the world's prisoners in 2015, even though the US represented only around 4.4 percent of the world's population in 2015. [7] [8] In 2015 the US had the 2nd highest incarceration rate (698), behind the Seychelles rate of 799 per 100,000. [5]
Felony Sentences in State Courts, study by the United States Department of Justice. As of September 30, 2009, in federal prisons, 7.9% of sentenced people were incarcerated for violent crimes, [105] while at year end 2008 of sentenced people in state prisons, 52.4% had been jailed for violent crimes. [105]
The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has left her position amid President Donald Trump's efforts to implement drastic reforms to the Justice Department.
Bureau of Justice Statistics: U.S. Department of Justice: 1979 $68.0 $54.4 National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (National Science Foundation) Independent agency: 1950 $42.6 $72.6 Statistics of Income Division (Internal Revenue Service) U.S. Department of the Treasury: 1862 $39.5 $41.3 Bureau of Transportation Statistics: U.S ...
A YSI facility in Palm Beach County had the highest rate of reported sexual assaults out of 36 facilities reviewed in Florida, the Bureau of Justice Statistics report found. The state’s sweeping privatization of its juvenile incarceration system has produced some of the worst re-offending rates in the nation.