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1987 Prisoners in 1 (1987)

handle is hein.death/prsin1987 and id is 1 raw text is: -- U.S. Department of Justice tS Bureau of Justice Statistics Bueuo Jutc Sttsis .B lei Pi Prisoners in 198.7 The number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of Federal and State correctional authorities at yearend 1987 reached a record,5L1,609. The States and the District of Columbia added 32,584 prisoners; the Federal system, 3,892. The increase for 1987 brings total growth in the prison pop- ulation since 1980 to nearly 252,000 inmates--an increase of about 76% in the 7-year period (table 1). The 1987 growth rate (6.7%) was less than the percentage increase recorded during 1986 (8.5%), and the number of new prisoners added during 1987, 36,476, was about 6,000 less than the number added during the preceding year (42,626). Prisoners with sentences of more than 1 year (referred to as sentenced prisoners) accounted for nearly 96% of the total prison popu- lation at the end of 1987, growing by 6.7% during the year (table 2). The remaining prisoners had sentences of a year or less or were unsentenced (those, for example, awaiting trial in States with combined prison-jail systems). Table 1. Change in the State and Federal prison populations, 1980-87 Total Number Annual percent of percent change Year inmates change since 1980 1980 329,921 1981 369,930 12.2% 12.2% 1982 413,806 11.9 25.5 1983 437,248 5.7 32.6 1984 464,567 6.2 40.9 1985 502,507 8.2 52.4 1986 545,133 8.5 65.3 1987 581,609 6.7 76.3 Note: All counts are for December 31 of each year and may differ from previously reported numbers because of revision. The number of sentenced Federal prisoners continued to grow at a faster rate than sentenced prisoners in the States during the year (8.2% vs. 6.5%). Among the 8,777 Federal prisoners with no sentences or sentences of 1 year or less were 2,384 under the jurisdiction of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, an increase of 26 over the number held at the end of 1986 (2,358). Nearly 77% of the total Federal in- crease occurred among those with sen- tences greater than 1 year; however, those with sentences less than 1 year or who were unsentenced grew by 11.4%, compared to 8.2% growth for sentenced prisoners during the year. In four States total prison populations decreased during 1987; however, in two of these States the decreases were small (a total of 50 inmates). The num- ber of prisoners in Washington con- tinued to decline for the second year in a row, and North Carolina reported a 2.5% decline after an increase in 1986. Total prison populations rose most rapidly during 1987 in Colorado (26.4%), Arizona (16%), Arkansas (15.8%), Michigan (15.1%), and Oregon (14.9%). Twelve States reported total prisoner increases of 10% or more, compared to the end of 1986. California's increase of nearly 7,500 additional prisoners was the largest single gain among the re- porting jurisdictions and accounted for nearly 21% of the increase in the Na- tion (at the end of 1986, 10.9% of all prisoners in the Nation were in Cali- fornia). During 1987 Michigan's prison population continued a period of rapid expansion--the annual increase in 1984 was less than 1%, compared to annual increases of 21.6% in 1985, 16.8% in 1986, and 15.1% in 1987. April 1988 This bulletin presents population counts for the Nation's prisons on December 31, 1987. The number of prisoners increased by more than 34,000 during the year, well below the record increases of 43,000 in 1982 and 198,6. The number of prisoners present at yearend, however, again set a new record for the 13th consecutive , time. During the next several months, BJS will be releasing a compilation of historical prisoner counts for each State, the District of Colum- bia, and the Federal prison system covering each year since 1925. This collection will also be made available in machine-readable for- mat through the Criminal Justice Archive at the University of Michigan. I want to offer my deepest appreciation to the departments of corrections in the 50 States and the District of Columbia and the Federal Prison System, who make it possible for BJS to continue to gather and report data on the Nation's prisoners. Steven R. Schlesinger Director Rates of incarceration increase On December 31, 1987, the number of sentenced prisoners per 100,000 residents was 228, also setting a new record. Twelve of the 19 jurisdictions equal to or greater than the rate for the Nation were located in the South, 4 in the West, 2 in the Midwest, and 1 in the Northeast.

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