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23 paź 2024 · Number of prisoners in the U.S. 1990-2022. Number of prisoners under jurisdiction of federal or state correctional authorities from 1990 to 2022 (in 1,000s)
- Prisoners in The United States
Basic Statistic Number of prisoners in the U.S. 2005-2022,...
- Prisoners in The United States
23 paź 2024 · Around 1.23 million people were imprisoned in the United States in 2022. This is a slight increase from the previous year, when 1.2 million people were in prison. Read more. Number of...
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.
All but four US states (the exceptions are Rhode Island, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Minnesota) have a higher incarceration rate than Turkey, the nation with the second highest incarceration rate among OECD countries. See: List of U.S. states by incarceration and correctional supervision rate.
As of 2020, there were 345,500 black, non-Hispanic prisoners, compared to 327,300 white, non-hispanic inmates. The U.S. states with the largest number of prisoners in 2021 were Texas, California and Florida.
From 2021 to 2022, the number of white persons in the correctional population decreased by 99,000 (4%), while the number of Hispanic persons increased by 31,000 (4%), the number of black persons increased by 20,000 (1%), and the number of persons of all other racial groups increased by 8,000 (3%).
15 paź 2024 · At yearend 2022, correctional authorities in U.S. territories had jurisdiction over 8,600 persons, of whom 7,200 (83%) were held in territorial custody and 1,400 (17%) were held in facilities outside of the territories (table 25).
