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During the past decade, the parole population was the only segment of the correctional population to increase, growing from 11.9% of those under correctional supervision in 2010 to 15.7% in 2020. At yearend 2020, about 2,140 per 100,000 adult U.S. residents were under correctional supervision.
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
14 gru 2021 · The prison populations of California, Texas, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons each declined by more than 22,500 from 2019 to 2020, accounting for 33% of the total prison population decrease. In 2020, the imprisonment rate was 358 per 100,000 U.S. residents, the lowest since 1992.
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
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).
This table, originally created for the briefing Why did prison and jail populations grow in 2022 - and what comes next?, provides the jurisdictional population counts published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics for the years 2019-2022, and the most recent counts we could find provided by individual state and federal online sources. We ...
Vera researchers estimated the national jail population using a sample of 1,558 jail jurisdictions and the national prison population based on a sample of 49 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
