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According to the Prison Policy Initiative, in Illinois, the incarceration rate is 564 per 100,000 people. By race, 258 per 100,000 white people are incarcerated, 472 per 100,000 for Latino, 821 per 100,000 for Native, and 2128 for Black people.1 Compared to the U.S, the total incarceration rate is lower in Illinois but not by much (U.S.
Illinois has an incarceration rate of 433 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.
27 wrz 2023 · Updated data and charts: Incarceration stats by race, ethnicity, and gender for all 50 states and D.C. New data visualizations and updated tables show the national landscape of persistent racial disparity in state prisons and local jails. by Leah Wang, September 27, 2023.
1 kwi 2024 · These new statistics underscore the ongoing racial injustice of prisons, where the national incarceration rate of Black people is six times the rate of white people and more than twice the rate in every single state.
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]
1 Recidivism rate indicates the percentage of individuals who return to IDOC within three years after release. The data represent those individuals released from IDOC in FY2017, FY2018, and FY2019.
31 paź 2024 · Incarceration trends for all states and counties since 1970: Examine jail and prison populations, incarceration rates, and racial disparities.
