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2020 Corr. Populations U.S. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.death/cpopus0024 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics March 2022, NCJ 303184 Correctional Populations in the United States, 2020 - Statistical Tables Rich Kluckow, DSW, and Zhen Zeng, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians At yearend 2020, an estimated 5,500,600 persons were under the supervision of adult correctional systems in the United States, 11% fewer than at the same time the previous year (figure 1).1 This was the first time since 1996 that the total correctional population dropped to less than 5.6 million. About 1 in 47 adult U.S. residents (2.1%) were under some form of correctional supervision at the end of 2020, a decrease from 1 in 40 (2.5%) at the end of 2019. This report summarizes data on populations supervised by probation or parole agencies and those incarcerated in state or federal prisons or in the custody of local jails. (See Terms and definitions.) 1The total correctional, community supervision, and incarcerated populations exclude persons with dual correctional statuses to avoid double counting. See table 5 and Methodology. Highlights About 7 in 10 persons under correctional supervision were supervised in the community (3,890,400) at yearend 2020, while about 3 in 10 (1,691,600) were incarcerated in a state or federal prison or local jail. The decline in the correctional population during 2020 was due to decreases in both the community supervision population (down 276,700 or 6.6%) and the incarcerated population (down 294,400 or 18.9%). From 2010 to 2020, the correctional population decreased 22.4% (down 1,588,400 persons). From 2010 to 2020, the decrease in the probation population accounted for 63.1% of the total decline in the correctional population. FIGURE 1 Number of persons under the supervision of adult correctional systems in the United States, 2010-2020 Number (in millions) 8- 7 6 Total correctional population 5 Lammmunity-superision populaiin 4 3 Incarcerated population 2 1 0. 2010 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 20 Note: Estimates may differ from previously published statistics. See Methodology for more details. See Terms and definitions for more information and table 1 for counts. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Annual Probation Survey, Annual Parole Survey, National Prisoner Statistics program, 2010-2020; Annual Survey of Jails, 2010-2018 and 2020; and Census of Jails, 2019. Among persons under community supervision at yearend 2020, the majority were on probation (3,053,700), while a smaller portion were on parole (862,100). During the past decade, the parole population was the only segment of the correctional population to increase, growing from 11.9% of those under correctional supervision in 2010 to 15.7% in 2020. At yearend 2020, about 2,140 per 100,000 adult U.S. residents were under correctional supervision. The incarceration rate dropped each year during the last decade, from 960 per 100,000 adult U.S. residents at yearend 2010 to 660 per 100,000 at yearend 2020. i-u !F' !f n N-u BJS

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