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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
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)
The United States in 2022 had the fifth highest incarceration rate in the world, at 541 people per 100,000. [2][3] Between 2019 and 2020, the United States saw a significant drop in the total number of incarcerations. State and federal prison and local jail incarcerations dropped by 14% from 2.1 million in 2019 to 1.8 million in mid-2020. [4]
27 wrz 2023 · Updated data and charts: Incarceration stats by race, ethnicity, and gender for all 50 states and D.C. 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.
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. We spend about $182 billion every year — not to mention the significant social cost — to lock up nearly 1% of our adult population.
30 lis 2023 · The U.S. prison population was 1,230,100 at yearend 2022, a 2% increase from yearend 2021 (1,205,100). The number of females in state or federal prison increased almost 5% from yearend 2021 (83,700) to yearend 2022 (87,800).
About 1 in 48 adult U.S. residents (2.1%) was under some form of correctional supervision at the end of 2022. The rate of persons under community supervision in 2022 (1,400 per 100,000 adult U.S. residents) continued a decline from its peak in 2007 (2,240 per 100,000) (figure 1).
