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2000 Prisoners in 1 (2000)

handle is hein.death/prsin2000 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs August 2001, NCJ 188207 Prisoners in 2000 By Allen J. Beck, Ph.D. and Paige M. Harrison BJS Statisticians The total number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of Federal or State adult correctional authorities was 1,381,892 at yearend 2000. During the year the States and the District of Columbia added 8,021 prisoners, and the Federal prison system added 10,170 prisoners. Overall, the Nation's prison population grew 1.3%, which was less than the average annual growth of 6.0% since 1990. During 2000 the prison population rose at the lowest rate since 1972 and had the smallest absolute increase since 1980. The rate of incarceration in prison at yearend 2000 was 478 sentenced inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents - up from 292 in 1990. About 1 in every 109 men and 1 in every 1,695 women were sentenced prisoners under the jurisdiction of State or Federal authorities. Overall, the United States incarcerated 2,071,686 persons at yearend 2000. This total represents persons held in - - Federal and State prisons (1,312,354, which excludes State and Federal prisoners in local jails) -territorial prisons (16,130) - local jails (621,149) - facilities operated by or exclusively for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (8,894) - military facilities (2,420) -jails in Indian country (1,775) -juvenile facilities (108,965 as of October 1999). Sentenced prisoners per Population housed as a Decem- Number of inmates 100,000 resident population percent of highest capacity ber 31 Federal State Federal State Federal State 1990 65,526 708,379 20 272 --115% 1995 100,250 1,025,624 32 379 126% 114 1999 135,246 1,228,455 42 434 132 101 2000 145,416 1,236,476 45 432 131 100 --Not available. * In the last 6 months of 2000, the * On December 31, 2000, State State prison population declined prisons were operating between full about 6,200 inmates (down 0.5%) - capacity and 15% above capacity, the first measured decline in the State while Federal prisons were operating prison population since 1972. at 31% above capacity. * Between January 1 and December * Between June 30, 1990, and June 31, 2000, 13 States experienced 30, 2000, when complete censuses decreases, led by Massachusetts of prison facilities were conducted, (down 5.6%), followed by New Jersey the number of State adult correctional (down 5.4%), New York (down 3.7%) facilities increased 351. At midyear and Texas (down 3.2%). 2000, there were 1,320 State adult facilities, 84 Federal facilities, and * Five States - Idaho (up 14.1%), 264 privately operated facilities. North Dakota (14.1%), Mississippi During the decade, States added (10.9%), Vermont (10.5%), and Iowa more than 528,000 beds (up 81%). (10.0%) - had increases of at least 10% in 2000. * At yearend 2000, 91,612 women were in State or Federal prisons - * California (163,001 inmates), Texas 6.6% of all prison inmates. Since (157,997), and the Federal system 1990 the number of male prisoners (145,416) together held 1 in every 3 has grown 77% (reaching 1,290,280 prisoners in the Nation. The 10 in 2000), while the number of female States with the smallest prison prisoners has increased 108%. systems, each holding fewer than 4,000 inmates, together held less than * Among the more than 1.3 million 2% of the Nation's prisoners, sentenced inmates at yearend, an estimated 428,300 were black males * At yearend 2000, privately operated between the ages of 20 and 39. At facilities housed 87,369 inmates (5.8% of State and 10.7% of Federal yearend 2000, 9.7% of black males inmates); local jails housed 63,140 age 25 to 29 were in prison, com- State and Federal inmates (4.6% of pared to 2.9% of Hispanic males and Sa andiFders). i1.1% of white males in the same age all prisoners), group. S

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