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9 godz. temu · California’s imprisonment rate—the share of adults in state prisons—stood at 309 per 100K in 2023. Imprisonment rates vary by gender, race, and age in California. In December 2023, men made up 96% of California’s prisoners—up 0.5 percentage points from 2019.
28% of prison pop. Since 1978, the Black incarceration rate has increased 260 percent. In 2017, Black people were incarcerated at 8.0 times the rate of white people, and Native American people were incarcerated at 3.7 times the rate of white people.
California has an incarceration rate of 494 per 100,000 people (including prisons, jails, immigration detention, and juvenile justice facilities), meaning that it locks up a higher percentage of its people than almost any democratic country on earth. Read on to learn more about who is incarcerated in California and why.
31 sie 2022 · Native reservation and trust land in California has an imprisonment rate of 534 per 100,000 people, nearly double the state average of 310 per 100,000. There are dramatic differences in incarceration rates within communities, often along racial and economic lines.
Bar charts showing that in California prisons and jails, incarceration rates are highest for Black residents.
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]
CDCR reports recidivism rates (arrests, convictions, and returns to prison) through our Recidivism Data Dashboard. The three-year conviction rate is CDCR’s primary measure of recidivism (for more information, please see the Evaluation Design Section of our Recidivism Report Series below).
