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2010 Corr. Populations U.S. 1 (2010)

handle is hein.death/cpopus0015 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2011, NCJ 236319 Correctional Populations in the United States, 2010 Lauren E. Glaze, BJS Statistician During 2010, the number of persons under supervision of adult correctional authorities declined by 1.3% (91,700 offenders), reaching 7.1 million at yearend (figure 1). This was the second consecutive year of decline in the correctional population. The population at yearend 2010 dropped below the 2006 level (7.2 million). The adult correctional systems supervise offenders in the community under the authority of adult probation or parole agencies and those incarcerated in state or federal prisons or local jails. (See text box below.) This report provides summary data on the total population under the supervision of the adult correctional systems and highlights significant changes in the components of the population. (See Methodology.) FIGURE 1 Total population under the supervision of adult correctional systems and annual percent change, 1980-2010 Population Annual percent (in millions) change 8 20 3 8 2 ,6 0 2 2 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 20102 Note: Annual percentage change was based on within-year change in the probation and parole populations and year-to-year changes in the prison and jail populations. The annual percentage change in 1998 and 1999 was adjusted to account for expanded coverage of probation agencies during those years. See Methodology. Defining the adult correctional systems Community supervision data collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) were reported by probation and parole agencies that supervise adults. In these data, adults are defined as persons under the authority of an adult court or correctional agency. Persons under age 18 who are prosecuted as an adult in a criminal court are considered adults and are included in these probation and parole populations, but persons under age 18 who were under the authority of a juvenile court or agency are excluded. Jails are confinement facilities, usually administered by a local law enforcement agency, that are intended to hold adults. Local jails may also hold inmates under age 18 before or after adjudication (7,560 in 2010), and these inmates are included in the jail population.1 The state and federal custody prison data were reported by state departments of corrections and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. (See text box on page 2 for discussion about the difference between the custody and jurisdiction prison populations.) In these data, adults are defined as prisoners who were serving time in a state or federal correctional facility or privately operated facility under state or federal authority after being sentenced as an adult in a criminal court. Prisoners under age 18 who were sentenced as an adult in a criminal court (2,295 in 2010) are considered adults and are included in the prison population.2The prison custody population also includes persons under age 18 who were held (before or after adjudication) in correctional facilities in the six states with combined prison-jail systems.3 1 See Jail Inmates at Midyear 201 -Statistical Tables, BJS Web, NCJ 233431, for more details. 2The estimate of 2,295 persons under the age of 18 who were held in state or federal prison in 2010 is based on a June 30 reference date. 3See Prisoners in 2010, BJS Web, NCJ 236096, for more details. B's

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