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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.
Data from 2021 shows that 300.36 per 100,000 people are incarnated in the United States. This is compared to other NATO countries like The United Kingdom(129 per 100,000), France(93 per 100,000), and Iceland(33 per 100,000). Twenty-four states have higher incarceration rates than the national average. These states are:
New Hampshire, Vermont, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Maine, and Massachusetts have the lowest prison incarceration rates of under 200 per 100,000 people. The ten states with the highest prison populations in the country are Texas (1535,906), California (97,328), Florida (81,027), Georgia (47,141), Ohio (45,036), Pennsylvania (39,357), Arizona ...
The state with the largest prison population in 2022 is Texas, accommodating a staggering 139,319 incarcerated individuals. This is followed by California, with its prisons harboring 98,039 inmates while Florida locks at the third place, with a prison population of 84,121.
15 paź 2024 · Nine states and the BOP increased their total prison populations by over 1,000 persons from yearend 2021 to yearend 2022. State correctional authorities had jurisdiction over 1,039,500 persons sentenced to at least 1 year in prison in 2022, while the BOP had legal authority over 146,100 persons with similar sentences.
The United States in 2022 had the fifth highest incarceration rate in the world, at 541 people per 100,000. [2][3] Between 2019 and 2020, the United States saw a significant drop in the total number of incarcerations. State and federal prison and local jail incarcerations dropped by 14% from 2.1 million in 2019 to 1.8 million in mid-2020. [4]
In 2022, the number of females incarcerated in local jails increased by 9%, while the number of males increased by 3%. At yearend 2022, 1 in 29 male and 1 in 141 female adult U.S. residents were under correctional supervision.
