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1989 Prisoners in 1 (1989)

handle is hein.death/prsin1989 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice W Office of Justice Programs 4*0 Bureau of Justice Statistics V I Brauo Jutc atitc Bulein Prisoners in 1989 The number of prisoners under the jurisdic- tion of Federal or State correctional author- ities at yearend 1989 reached a record 710,054. The States and the District of Columbia added 73,223 prisoners during the year; the Federal system, 9,243. The total increase, 82,466 inmates, also set a new record, exceeding the 1982 record In- crease by more than 38,000. The in- crease for 1989 brings total growth in the prison population since 1980 to 380,233- an increase of about 115% in the 9-year period (table 1). The 1989 growth rate (13.1%) was greater than the percentage increase recorded during 1988 (7.3%), and the number of new prisoners added during 1989 was nearly 40,000 higher than the number added during the preceding year (42,504). The 1989 increase translates into a nation- wide need for nearly 1,600 new prison bedspaces per week. Prisoners with sentences of more than 1 year (referred to as sentenced prisoners) accounted for 96% of the total prison popu- lation at the end of 1989, growing by 12.7% during the year (table 2). The re- maining prisoners had sentences of a year or less or were unsentenced (like those, for example, awaiting trial in States with com- bined prison-jail systems). The number of sentenced Federal prison- ers grew at a slightly lower rate than sen- tenced prisoners in the States during the year (10.4% versus 12.7%). Among the 12,003 Federal prisoners with no sen- tences or sentences of 1 year or less were 1,955 under the jurisdiction of the Immigra- tion and Naturalization Service, an in- crease of 99 from the number held at the end of 1988 (1,856). The number of Fed- eral prisoners with no sentences or sen- tences of 1 year or less increased by 4,813 May 1990 This Bulletin presents counts of the Nation's prisoners at the end of 1989. The year was marked by the largest absolute Increase In the number of persons confined in State or Federal institutions recorded in the 65-year history of this statistical series. The 1989 increase of more than 82,000 prisoners approximately equals a demand for 1,600 new prison beds per week nationwide. The Bureau of Justice Statistics ex- presses its appreciation to the depart- ments of corrections In the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the Fed- eral prison system, who make it possi- ble for us to gather and report data on the Nation's prisoners. Joseph M. Bessette Acting Director during 1989 (from 7,190 to 12,003) while the number of sentenced prisoners in- creased by 4,430. In Kansas and North Dakota, prison popu- lations decreased during 1989. The total decrease for the 2 States was 210 in- mates. Total prison population rose most rapidly during 1989 in Rhode Island (30.1%), Colorado (26.9%), South Dakota (25.2%), and Utah (21.3%). Thirty-one States reported total prisoner increases of 10% or more since yearend 1988. Califor- nia's increase of more than 11,100 prison- ers during the year was the largest for any single jurisdiction. At the end of 1989, Cal- ifornia institutions confined about 1 in 8 prisoners nationwide. Colorado, for the third year in a row, experienced an annual Table 1. Change In the State and Federal prison populations, 1980-89 Total Number Annual percent of percent change Year inmates change since 1980 1980 329,821 1981 369,930 12.2% 12.2% 1982 413,806 11.9 25.5 1983 436,855 5.6 32.5 1984 462,002 5.8 40.1 1985 502,507 8.8 52.4 1986 544,972 8.5 65.2 1987 585,084 7.4 77.4 1988 627,588 7.3 90.3 1989 710,054 13.1 115.3 Note: All counts are for December 31 of each year and may reflect revisions of previously re- ported numbers. increase of more than 20% In the number of State prisoners; Its yearend 1989 popu- lation of 7,318 was 92% higher than the yearend 1986 population of 3,804. Rates of Incarceration Increase On December 31, 1989, the number of sentenced prisoners per 100,000 residents was 274, also setting a new record. Ten of the seventeen jurisdictions with rates equal to or greater than the rate for the Nation were located in the South, four were in the West, two were in the Midwest, and one was in the Northeast. Since 1980 the number of sentenced in- mates per 100,000 residents has risen more than 97%, from 139 to 274. During this period, per capita incarceration rates have Increased the most in the West (a 151% growth from 105 to 264) and in the Northeast (a 148% growth from 87 to 216). 0

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