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1998 Prison & Jail Inmates Midyear 1 (1998)

handle is hein.death/prjin1998 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs March 1999, NCJ 173414 Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 1998 By Darrell K. Gilliard BJS Statistician H At midyear 1998 the Nation's prisons and jails incarcerated an estimated 1,802,496 persons. Federal and State prison authorities and local jail authori- ties held in their custody 668 persons per 100,000 U.S. residents. Prisoners in the custody of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Government accounted for two-thirds of the incarcerated population (1,210,034 inmates). The other third were held in local jails (592,462). On June 30, 1998, 1,277,866 prisoners were under Federal and State jurisdic- tion, which includes prisoners in custody and persons under the legal authority of a prison system while being held outside its facilities. The total increased 4.8% from midyear 1997. The States and the District of Columbia added 49,342 prisoners; the Federal system, 8,748 additional prisoners. At midyear 1998 local jail authorities held or supervised an estimated 664,847 offenders- an increase of 4.5% from midyear 1997. Eleven percent of these offenders (72,385) were supervised outside jail facilities in programs such as community service, work release, weekend reporting, electronic monitoring, and other alternative programs. 1,400,000 1,200,000 1,000,000 800,000 600,000 400,000 200,000 Prisoners 800,000 600,000 Capacity 400,000 inmates 200,000 0 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 State and Federal Prisons (usually holding persons with a sentence longer than a year) Prisons - e Between July 1,1997, and June 30, 1998, the Nation's prison population grew 4.8%, less than the annual average increase of 6.9% since 1990. * North Dakota (up 19.5%) recorded the largest percent increase in prison population since midyear 1997, followed by Montana (up 18.3%) and Hawaii (up 13.6%). The District of Columbia (down -10.9%), Idaho (down -3.6%), Wyoming (down -3.0%), and Massachusetts (down -0.3%) were the only jurisdictions to record declines. e At midyear 1998 approximately 452 per 100,000 U.S. residents were incar- cerated in a State or Federal prison, up from 303 per 100,000 residents in 1990. 0 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 Local jails (primarily holding unconvicted persons and those with a sentence of a year or less) Jails - * On June 30, 1998, an estimated 592,462 persons were held in local jails; up from 567,079 at midyear 1997. e From midyear 1997 to midyear 1998, the number of inmates held in jail increased 4.5% -less than half the rate experienced 12 months earlier (9.5%) and slightly less than the average annual rate (4.9%) since 1990. * In the year ending June 30, 1998, the capacity of the Nation's jails rose by 26,216 beds. Jails were operating at 97% of their rated capacity, unchanged from 12 months prior. e At midyear 1998, 219 of every 100,000 U.S. residents were held in local jails, up from 163 per 100,000 in 1990.

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