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2019 Corr. Populations U.S. 1 (2019)

handle is hein.death/cpopus0023 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics July 2021, NCJ 300655 Correctional Populations in the United States, 2019 - Statistical Tables Todd D. Minton, Lauren G. Beatty, and Zhen Zeng, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians A t year-end 2019, an estimated 6,344,000 persons were under the supervision of adult correctional systems in the United States, about 65,200 fewer persons than in 2018 (figure 1). The adult correctional system includes persons incarcerated in prisons and jails and persons supervised in the community on probation and parole. This was the first time since 1999 that the correctional population dropped to less than 6.4 million.1 The correctional population declined by 1.0% in 2019 and has declined an average of 1.3% each year since 2009. About 1 in 40 adult U.S. residents (2.5%) were under some form of correctional supervision at the end of 2019. This represented a drop from 1 in 32 (3.1%) a decade earlier. 1See the Key Statistics page on the BJS website at https:// bjs.ojp.gov/data/key-statistics for correctional population statstics prior to 2009. FIGURE 1 Number of persons under the supervision of adult correctional systems in the U.S., 2009-2019 Number (in millions) 8 7 6 - T-- - - - Total correctional population - 5 4 3 2 1 0 Community supervision population Incarcerated population '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 Note: Estimates may differ from previously published statistics. See Methodology for more details. See Terms and deinitions for more information and table 1 for counts. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Annual Probation Survey, Annual Parole Survey, National Prisoner Statistics program, 2009-2019; Annual Survey of Jails, 2009-2018; and Census of Jails, 2019. Highlights In 2019, the number of persons supervised by U.S. adult correctional systems (6,344,000) decreased (down 65,200 persons) for the twelfth consecutive year. The 1.0% decline in the correctional population during 2019 was due to decreases in the community supervision (down 0.9%) and incarcerated (down 1.7%) populations. Since 2009, the correctional population decreased by 12.4% (down 895,200 persons), an average of 1.3% annually. At year-end 2019, about 2,480 per 100,000 adult U.S. residents were under correctional supervision, the lowest rate since 1991. By the end of 2019, the community supervision population had dropped to 4,357,700, its lowest level in the last two decades. All of the decrease in the community supervision population during 2019 was due to a decline in the probation population (down 47,100). In 2019, the incarcerated population fell to 2,086,600, its lowest level since 2003. The decline in the incarcerated population during 2019 was primarily due to a decrease in the prison population (down 33,600). From 2009 to 2019, the parole population grew by 6.6% and was the only correctional population with an overall increase during that period. i-rr i-rn iun H6 BIS

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