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[2] [39] Since 2011, the year the Hispanic prison population reached its peak, the number of Hispanic people in prison declined from 347,300 to 273,800 (a 21% decrease). [2] [39] Since 2010, the year the American Indian prison population reached its peak, the number of American Indians in prison declined from 23,800 to 18,700 (a 21% decrease).
Core Publications of the World Prison Brief. Such as the World Prison Population List, and the World Female Imprisonment List. Persons Detained Statistics of incarceration ("detained") from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; Data Analysis Tools – Corrections Statistical Analysis Tool (CSAT) – Prisoners.
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 2021 US incarceration rate of 531 per 100,000 population was the 6th highest rate. [1] According to the World Prison Population List (11th edition) there were around 10.35 million people in penal institutions worldwide in 2015. [5] The US had 2,173,800 prisoners in adult facilities in 2015. [6]
Mexico's prison population had grown 4.4% under Lopez Obrador by 2021 from the year before, reaching 204,360, according to national statistics agency INEGI.
Number of prisoners set to rise as plans to expand number of jail cells hit by delays and hidden costs
According to a November 2017 report by the World Prison Brief around 212,000 of the 714,000 female prisoners worldwide (women and girls) are incarcerated in the United States. [11] In the United States in 2016, women made up 9.8% of the incarcerated population in adult prisons and jails. [12] [13]
Those 773,000 people account for more than half of the U.S. prison population. Extreme sentences have become so commonplace in the U.S. that 10 years can seem like a relatively minor punishment ...