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2017-2018 Corr. Populations U.S. 1 (2017-2018)

handle is hein.death/cpopus0022 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics August 2020, NCJ 252157 Correctional Populations in the United States, 2017-2018 Laura M. Maruschak and Todd D. Minton, BJS Statisticians A n estimated 6,410,000 persons were held in prisons or jails or were on probation or parole in 2018, marking a 19-year low in the number of persons under the supervision of adult correctional systems in the United States (figure 1).1 This correctional population peaked at 7,339,600 in 2007 and has declined every year since. Between 2017 and 2018, the correctional population declined 2.1%, and between 2008 and 2018, it declined 12.3%. By the end of 2018, about 1 in 40 adult U.S. residents were under some form of correctional supervision, down from 1 in 32 a decade earlier. In 2018, 2,510 out of 100,000 adult U.S. residents were under the supervision of adult correctional systems in the U.S. (table 4). This marked a 26-year low in the adult correctional- supervision rate. This report summarizes data from several Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) collections on populations that are supervised by adult correctional systems in the U.S. (See Methodology.) IThis includes a small number of persons age 17 or younger who were under adult correctional supervision. FIGURE 1 Persons under the supervision of adult correctional systems in the U.S., 2008-2018 Number (in millions) 8 7 Total' 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Probation '08 '10 '15 Prisonb amrD Loa ail '18 Note: Counts are rounded to the nearest 100. Estimates may have been revised based on updated reporting and may differ from numbers in past reports. See table 1 for counts. aDetails may not sum to totals because the total correctional- population counts were adjusted to exclude probationers and parolees held in prisons or local jails, parolees who were also on probation, and prisoners who were held in local jails. See table 5 and Methodology for more details. bOffenders who were under the jurisdiction of state or federal prisons. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Annual Probation Survey, Annual Parole Survey, Annual Survey of Jails, and National Prisoner Statistics program, 2008-2018. HIGHLIGHTS The adult correctional-supervision rate (adults supervised per 100,000 adult U.S. residents) decreased 21% from 2008 to 2018, from 3,160 to 2,510 per 100,000 adult U.S. residents. The percentage of adult U.S. residents under correctional supervision was lower in 2018 than at any time since 1992. The adult incarceration rate (adults in prison or jail per 100,000 adult U.S. residents) has declined every year since 2008, and the rate in 2018 was the lowest since 1996. * The portion of adult U.S. residents in prison or jails fell 17% from 2008 to 2018. The correctional population declined 2.1% from 2017 to 2018, due to decreases in both the community-supervision (down 2.4%) and incarcerated (down 1.4%) populations. The community-supervision population fell from 4,508,900 in 2017 to 4,399,000 in 2018. * The incarcerated population decreased from 2,153,600 in 2017 to 2,123,100 in 2018. A S0

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