Tag: prison population
Posted on Thu Dec 15, 2011 at 01:34:16 PM EST
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics has released two new reports on prisoner population in 2010. The total number of prisoners has declined for the first time in 40 years. But while the number of state prisoners declined, the number of federal prisoners increased.
The total U.S. prison population fell to 1.6 million at year end 2010, a decline of 0.6 percent during the year, the first decline in the total prison population in nearly four decades.
This decline was due to a decrease of 10,881 in the number of state prisoners, which fell to just under 1.4 million persons and was the largest yearly decrease since 1977. The federal prison population grew by 0.8 percent (1,653 prisoners) to reach 209,771, the smallest percentage increase since 1980.
1 in 33 adults, 7.1 million people, were under the supervision of adult correctional authorities at the end of 2010. The reports are Correctional Population in the United States, 2010 and Prisoners in 2010.
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Posted on Tue Dec 26, 2006 at 06:23:10 PM EST
Tags: War on Drugs, Prison population (all tags)
Via the New York City Independent Media Center and the DMI blog:
These are some statistics from the Department of Justice reflecting data through 2005.
What they tell us: America continues to be a prison nation. The drug war doesn't work. Over-incarceration doesn't work. Our elected officials in Congress need to spend time addressing these issues in 2007.
- the prison population grew 1.9% over the past year
- the United States has 2,320,359 people incarcerated
- in 1995, America sentenced 411 people per 100,000 residents; today it is 491
- there are around 600,000 more people in jail today than 10 years ago
- since 1995, the total number of male prisoners has grown 34%; female prisoners have risen 57%
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