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1 Correctional Populations in the United States: Executive Summary 1 (1995)

handle is hein.death/cpuses0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Executive Summary April 1995, NCJ-153849 Correctional Populations in the United States The Nation's correctional population jumped more than 21/2 times from 1980 through 1993. During 1993 approximately 2.6% of the U.S. population - 4.9 million adults - were on parole, on probation, or in jails or prisons, an increase of 3 million people since 1980. More than 909,000 men and women were in the custody of State and Federal prisons, 455,500 were in local jails, 671,000 on parole, and 2.8 mil- lion on probation. During the 1980-92 period, the percent of black State and Federal prisoners increased from 46.5% to 50% at a time when the percentage of blacks in the general population ncreased from 11.8% to 12.4%. The Hispanic prison popu- lation doubled from 7.7% to 14.1%, while Hispanics in the general population increased from 6.5% to 9.5%. At yearend 1992, there were 4,094 black male inmates per 100,000 black adults in the U.S. population, compared to 502 white male inmates per 100,000 adult white resi- dents. Among U.S. adults who neither graduated from high school nor earned a general equivalence degree (GED), almost 6% of blacks and 1% of whites were in a Federal or State prison serving a sentence of a year or more. Adults in jail, on probation, In prison, or on parole In the United States, 1980-93 Number of adult offenders 3,000,000 2,500,000 2,000,000 1,500,000 0............ 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1993 0 More than two-thirds of the 4.9 million persons under correctional supervision were on probation or parole. * The Nation's parole population had the fastest rate of growth, 205% from 1980 to 1993. * During the 13 years between 1980 and 1993, the probation population grew by more than 1.7 million, larger than the increase in any other correc- tional population. * In 1993 nearly 1.4 million offenders were in local jail and State or Federal prison. 1,000,000 .. . . . ', ' . , ,, ; ,,. , ,,, ,, ,,-P ,ri. ..so n,,,' 500,000 a r.ol (a

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