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1 lis 2024 · Can you name the top 10 US States with the most Prisoners? Test your knowledge on this geography quiz and compare your score to others. Quiz by evanphan32.
5 lip 2024 · As of December 2022, there was a total of 139,631 prisoners in the state of Texas, the most out of any state. California, Florida, Georgia, and Ohio rounded out the top five states with the most...
23 paź 2024 · Number of state and federal prisoners in private facilities in the United States from 2000 to 2021, by prison location
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 (37,731), New York (34,128), Michigan (33,617), and Virginia (31,838).
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.
In 2022, there are two million people in prisons and jails throughout the United States. Regarding percentage rations, roughly 0.7% of Americans are currently sitting in jail, with the state of Oklahoma having the highest incarceration rates in America.
22 lut 2024 · By the numbers: 1.23 million Americans were in state or federal prison in 2022, per the DOJ's data. That's up from 1.21 million in 2021, but down from 1.57 million in 2012. Zoom in: Mississippi's (+14.3%), Montana's (+8.8%) and Colorado's (+8.2%) incarcerated populations grew the most between 2021 and 2022.
