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2013 Corr. Populations U.S. 1 (2013)

handle is hein.death/cpopus0018 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2014, NCJ 248479 Correctional Populations in the United States, 2013 Lauren E. Glaze and Danielle Kaeble, BJS Statisticians A n estimated 6,899,000 persons were under the supervision of adult correctional systems at yearend 2013, down from 6,940,500 at yearend 2012 (figure 1). The decrease of 41,500 offenders in 2013 resulted in the number of persons under correctional supervision falling below 6.9 million for the first time since 2003. The decline in the population during 2013 (down 0.6%) was less than 1% for the second consecutive year, down from 2.1 % in 2010 when the fastest annual decline in the population was observed. About 1 in 35 adults in the United States was under some form of correctional supervision at yearend 2013. This rate was unchanged from 2012, when it dropped to the lowest rate observed since 1997. This report summarizes data from several Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) correctional data collections to provide statistics on the total population supervised by adult correctional systems in the United States. (See Methodology for sources.) These systems include offenders living in the community while supervised by probation or parole agencies and those under the jurisdiction of state or federal prisons or held in local jails. HIGHLIGHTS * An estimated 6,899,000 persons were under the supervision of adult correctional systems at yearend 2013, a decline of about 41,500 from yearend 2012. * The correctional population declined 0.6% during 2013, down from 2.10% in 2010 when the fastest annual decline in the population was observed. About 1 in 35 adults (2.8%) in the United States was under some form of correctional supervision at yearend 2013, unchanged from 2012. For the second consecutive year, the community supervision (down 0.6%) and incarcerated (down 0.5%) populations declined by less than 1 %. FIGURE 1 Total population under the supervision of adult correctional systems and annual percent change, 2000-2013 Population (in millions) Annual percent change d o%- Annual percent change . .. . .........-- 2.5 - - - - - - - 2.0 . . . . . ........-- 1.5 Population- 10 0.5 .0 -0.5 0-1. ' -2.0 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 Note: Estimates were rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates may not be comparable to previously published BJS reports because of updated information or changes in methods. Includes estimates for nonresponding jurisdictions. See Methodology. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Annual Surveys of Probation and Parole, Annual Survey of Jails, Census of Jail Inmates, and National Prisoner Statistics Program, 2000-2013. * About 1 in 51 adults was on probation or parole at yearend 2013, compared to 1 in 110 adults incarcerated in prison or local jail. * All of the decline in the correctional population during 2013 resulted from decreases in the probation (down 32,100) and local jail (down 13,300) populations. * While the U.S. prison population increased during 2013 (up 4,300 prisoners), the federal prison population (down 1,900) decreased for the first time since 1980. [ Since 2010, the female jail population has been the fastest growing correctional population, increasing by an average of 3.4% annually. B IS December 2014, NCJ 248479

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