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Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics, 2010–2020; and U.S. Census Bureau, postcensal resident population estimates for January 1 of the following calendar year. Highlights At yearend 2020, the number of prisoners under state or federal jurisdiction had decreased by 214,300 (down 15%) from 2019 and by 399,700
At yearend 2020, an estimated 5,500,600 persons were under the supervision of adult correctional systems in the United States, 11% fewer than at the same time the previous year (figure 1).1 This was the first time since 1996 that the total correctional population dropped to less than 5.6 million.
1 dzień temu · For example, more than 99.5 percent of the prisons and detention facilities in the DOJ frames matched to records in the MAF. Of these matched records, 86.8 percent were enumerated, 4.2 percent were listed as vacant, and 9.1 percent were not enumerated in the 2020 Census. The DOJ data included population counts that served as benchmarks for ...
24 mar 2022 · About 7 in 10 persons under correctional supervision were supervised in the community (3,890,400) at yearend 2020, while about 3 in 10 (1,691,600) were incarcerated in a state or federal prison or local jail. From 2010 to 2020, the correctional population decreased 22.4% (down 1,588,400 persons).
21 sie 2024 · Information on 2020 Census results, including more detailed population and household statistics.
State and federal prisons held an estimated 1,311,100 people at midyear 2020—down 124,400, or 9 percent, from 2019. Prisons declined by an additional 61,800 people in late 2020, bringing the total prison population to 1,249,300 people, a 13 percent decline from 2019 to late 2020 (the end of September or beginning of October).
The report provides State-level incarceration rates and the percentage change in each population during the year. The bulletins also include a national description of the race, gender, and offense composition of these populations.
