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14 gru 2021 · The prison populations of California, Texas, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons each declined by more than 22,500 from 2019 to 2020, accounting for 33% of the total prison population decrease. In 2020, the imprisonment rate was 358 per 100,000 U.S. residents, the lowest since 1992.
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14 mar 2023 · Today, the Prison Policy Initiative released Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023, its flagship report, which provides the most comprehensive view of how many people are locked up in the U.S., in what kinds of facilities, and why. It pieces together the most recent national data on state prisons, federal prisons, local jails, and other ...
1 gru 2023 · Between 2019 to mid-2020, America’s total jail and prison population decreased by roughly 300,000, as pandemic courthouse slowdowns depressed new jail and prison admissions. There was also much lip service paid to the great risk prisoners faced of COVID-19 infection and death, but efforts to reduce the prison population produced meager results.
In 2020, the imprisonment rate was 358 per 100,000 U.S. residents, the lowest since 1992. From 2010 to 2020, the sentenced imprisonment rate for U.S. residents fell 37% among blacks; 32% among Hispanics; 32% among Asians, Native Hawaiians, and Other Pacific Islanders; 26% among whites; and 25% among American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Rockville, Md. – The U.S. incarceration rate dropped in 2021 to the lowest level in three decades, according to a report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The prison population declined one percent in 2021 after sinking 14 percent in 2020 largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Line graph showing the percent change in prison population compared to 2019 for 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 in twelve states. All of them are now within 90 percent of their pre-pandemic level, and some are higher.
Probation and parole. Racial and ethnic disparities. Ending prison gerrymandering. Other national research and advocacy materials. With nearly two million people behind bars at any given time, the United States has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world.
