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1 gru 2023 · These numbers reveal that: Thirty-six states and the federal government increased their prison populations in 2022, led by Mississippi whose prison population grew 15%. Overall, the U.S. prison population in 2022 grew 2% last year, reaching a total of 1,185,648 people.
15 paź 2024 · The imprisonment rate at yearend 2022 (355 sentenced prisoners per 100,000 U.S. residents of all ages) was down 26% from yearend 2012 (480 per 100,000) but up 1% from yearend 2021 (350 per 100,000). In 2022, states and the BOP admitted 469,200 persons to prison, which was 20,800 more than they released that year (448,400) and 48,200 more
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.
27 wrz 2023 · New data visualizations and updated tables show the national landscape of persistent racial disparity in state prisons and local jails. by Leah Wang, September 27, 2023. The best and latest criminal legal system data are often scattered across different government agencies, in incompatible formats, and difficult to compare.
22 lut 2024 · The U.S. prison population rose 2.1% between 2021 and 2022, per recent Justice Department data, reversing a longtime downward trend. Why it matters: The latest findings mark "the first increase in the combined state and federal prison population in almost a decade," a recent DOJ report found.
14 gru 2023 · In the first year of the pandemic, the number of people in prisons dropped by 15% in 2020, and jail populations fell by 25% by the summer of 2020, according to the Prison Policy Initiative....
14 mar 2024 · In 14 states, the prison population grew by 5% or more in 2022, with just nine states (mostly in the South) and the federal Bureau of Prisons accounting for 91% of all prison growth nationwide. Local jail populations grew at an even faster pace than prisons in 2022; jails held 4% more people at the end of June 2022 than at the end of June 2021.
