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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).
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.
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)
4 maj 2023 · Key Findings. The number of juveniles incarcerated in all U.S. adult prisons or jails declined from a peak of 10,420 in 2008 to a low of 2,250 in 2021 (figure 1). In 2021, local jails had custody of 1,960 juveniles while state and federal adult prisons held 290.
Racial disparities. Employee abuse. Follow the path of America’s kids in the justice system. “Kids Imprisoned,” a major investigation into juvenile justice, is the 2020 project of the Carnegie-Knight News21 program.
people in prison and jail held steady from mid-2020 through the late fall, but prison and jail trajectories diverged in the second half of the year. From July through October, prison numbers continued to decline while many jails began to refill. Indeed, be-tween the summer and fall of 2020, jail populations increased by 10 percent.
Local jails had steeper population declines than prisons in the first part of 2020. From June 2019 to June 2020, the jail population decreased by 182,900 people, or 24 percent.3 However, from June to September, jail populations increased substantially, growing 10 percent in just three months.
