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From the source report: "This graph shows the number of people in state prisons, local jails, federal prisons, and other systems of confinement from each U.S. state and territory per 100,000 people in that state or territory and the incarceration rate per 100,000 in all countries with a total population of at least 500,000."
Many prisons in the United States are overcrowded. For example, California's 33 prisons have a total capacity of 100,000, but they hold 170,000 inmates. [180] Many prisons in California and around the country are forced to turn old gymnasiums and classrooms into huge bunkhouses for inmates.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) operates 35 prisons in California, with a design capacity of 85,083 incarcerated people. CDCR both owns and operates 34 of the state prisons; it additionally operates California City Correctional Facility, a prison leased from CoreCivic.
In 2009, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the growth rate of the state prison population had fallen to its lowest since 2006, but it still had a 0.2% growth-rate compared to the total U.S. prison population. [31] The California state prison system population fell in 2009, the first year that populations had fallen in 38 years. [32]
The seal of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the agency that manages U.S. federal prisons. The Federal Bureau of Prisons classifies prisons into seven categories: United States penitentiaries; Federal correctional institutions; Private correctional institutions; Federal prison camps; Administrative facilities; Federal correctional complexes [1]
California, under court order, reduced its prison population from about 136,000 to 92,000 over the past decade, but the percentage of people behind bars with mental illness continues to grow.
A new report from California’s first-in-the-country reparations task force details how slavery touched nearly every aspect of Black life in America, producing “innumerable harms” that are ...
Total US incarceration (prisons and jails) peaked in 2008. On January 1, 2008, more than 1 in 100 adults in the United States were in prison or jail. 2.3 million people (see table to right). [24] [25] Total correctional population (prison, jail, probation, parole) peaked in 2007. [26] [27] [28] [29]