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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.
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.
Between midyear 2019 and midyear 2020, the convicted population (down 34%) in local jail declined more than the unconvicted population (down 21%) (table 5). At midyear 2020, 77% of all local jail inmates were held for felony ofenses and 17% were held for misdemeanor ofenses (table 6).
People in Jail and Prison in 2020. January 2021. The United States saw an unprece-dented drop in total incarceration between 2019 and 2020. 2019 to 1.8 million by late 2020. This represents a 21 percent decline from a peak of 2.3 million . uring the first hal.
23 paź 2024 · Imprisonment rate of sentenced prisoners in the United States under federal or state jurisdiction in 2022, by sex and ethnicity (per 100,000 residents)
In 2018, the United States had the highest incarceration rate in the world. [5] While the United States represented about 4.2 percent of the world's population in 2020, [6] it housed around 20 percent of the world's prisoners. [7]
State and federal prisons held an estimated 1,311,100 people at midyear 2020—down 124,400, or 9 percent, from 2019. Prisons declined by an additional 61,800 people in late 2020, bringing the total prison population to 1,249,300 people, a 13 percent decline from 2019 to late 2020 (the end of September or beginning of October).
