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This is a list of lists of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories): US State Prisons Per State
Contact your state department of corrections to learn about visiting a prisoner in a state or local prison, how to send mail to an inmate, and more.
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.
Search for prisoners and prison records based on when and where someone was incarcerated. Find out how to look up federal, state, or local prison records.
BJS collects data on prisoners and prison facilities from several sources, including administrative records from state Departments of Corrections and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and personal interviews with inmates in state and federal prisons.
In 14 states, the prison population grew by 5% or more in 2022, with just nine states (mostly in the South) and the federal Bureau of Prisons accounting for 91% of all prison growth nationwide. Local jail populations grew at an even faster pace than prisons in 2022; jails held 4% more people at the end of June 2022 than at the end of June 2021.
Use this resource page to find federal prison and inmate information from the Bureau of Prisons and information on sex offenders in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and Indian Country.
At midyear 2019, there were a total of 1,677 adult correctional facilities in the United States.1 Of these, 111 were operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), 1,155 were operated by state correctional authorities, and 411 were privately operated (table 1).
Ninety-six percent of persons in U.S. prisons in 2022 were sentenced to more than 1 year under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional authorities (1,185,600). Thirty-five states and the BOP showed growth in their sentenced prison populations from 2021 to 2022, with increases of at least 1,000 persons in eight states and the BOP.
List of United States federal prisons. 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.