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The incarceration numbers for the states in the chart below are for sentenced and unsentenced inmates in adult facilities in local jails and state prisons. Numbers for federal prisons are in the Federal line. Asterisk (*) indicates "Incarceration in STATE" or "Crime in STATE" links. Correctional supervision numbers for Dec 31, 2018.
2010. Inmates in adult facilities, by race and ethnicity. Jails, and state and federal prisons. [146] Race, ethnicity % of US population % of U.S. incarcerated population: National incarceration rate (per 100,000 of all ages) White (non-Hispanic) 64 39 450 per 100,000 Hispanic: 16 19 831 per 100,000 Black: 13 40 2,306 per 100,000 Asian: 5.6 1.5 ...
Of the total state and federal prison population, 8% or 96,370 people are incarcerated in private prisons. An additional 2.9 million people are on probation, and over 800,000 people are on parole. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] At year-end 2021, 1,000,000 people were incarcerated in state prisons; 157,000 people were incarcerated in federal prisons; and 636,000 ...
A new report from Wisconsin Policy Forum shows that the state has some of the highest rates of incarceration, especially of Black residents, in the nation.
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]
While more white people were released from prison, more Black and brown people were going to prison in the year The post The Black prison population increased during the height of the COVID-19 ...
The prison system is about to be swamped with new arrivals resulting from the three-year backlog of felony court cases postponed for COVID. This will quickly push the system past capacity. This ...
If lists were compiled based on annual admissions to prison per capita, several European countries would outpace the United States. But American prison stays are much longer, so the total incarceration rate is higher." Counting all inmates (not just those in adult prisons and jails) brings the number at the beginning of 2008 to 2.42 million ...