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2001 Prisoners in 1 (2001)

handle is hein.death/prsin2001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs July 2002, NCJ 195189 Prisoners in 2001 By Paige M. Harrison and Allen J. Beck, Ph.D. BJS Statisticians The total number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of Federal or State adult correctional authorities was 1,406,031 at yearend 2001. During the year the States added 3,193 prisoners, and the Federal prison system added 11,577 prisoners. Overall, the Nation's prison population grew 1.1%, which was less than the average annual growth of 3.8% since yearend 1995. During 2001 the prison population rose at the lowest rate since 1972 and had the smallest absolute increase since 1979. The rate of incarceration in prison at yearend 2001 was 470 sentenced inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents - up from 411 in 1995. About 1 in every 112 men and 1 in every 1,724 women were sentenced prisoners under the jurisdiction of State or Federal authorities. Overall, the United States incarcerated 2,100,146 persons at yearend 2001. This total represents persons held in - - Federal and State prisons (1,324,465, which excludes State and Federal prisoners in local jails) -territorial prisons (15,852) - local jails (631,240) - facilities operated by or exclusively for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (8,761) - military facilities (2,436) -jails in Indian country (1,912) -juvenile facilities (108,965 as of October 1999). Population housed Sentenced prisoners per as a percent of Decem- Number of inmates 100,000 resident population highest capacity ber 31 Federal State Federal State Federal State 1990 65,526 708,393 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 1,245,845 44 425 131 100 2001 156,993 1,249,038 48 422 131 101 --Not available. - During 2001, 10 States experi- * On December 31, 2001, State enced prison population decreases, prisons were operating between 1% led by New Jersey (down 5.5%), and 16% above capacity, while followed by Utah (-5.2%), New York Federal prisons were operating at (- 3.8%), and Texas (-2.8%). Other 31% above capacity. States had increases, led by West * At yearend 2001,93,031 women Virginia (up 9.3%), Alaska (8.9%), were in State or Federal prisons Idaho (8.5%), Oregon (8.3%), and 6.6% of all prison inmates. Hawaii (7.9%). Since 1995 the number of male * Between July 1, 2001, and Decem- ber 31,2001, the number of inmates prisoners has grown 24% (reaching uner 1,S201,tate utof inmates 1,313,000 in 2001), while the number under State jurisdiction declined by of female prisoners has increased 3,705 inmates (down 0.3%), repeat- 36%. ing the same pattern of decline first observed in the last 6 months of * At yearend 2000, 49% of State 2000. prisoners were serving time for violent - The Federal Bureau of Prisons offenses, up from 46% in 1990. continued to grow rapidly, up 4,205 * Violent offenders accounted for 55% inmates since midyear 2001. At of the increase among male inmates yearend 2001, the Federal system and 33% of the increase among was the third largest prison system, female inmates. behind Texas (162,070) and Califor- * Among the more than 1.3 million nia (159,444). If growth rates remain sentenced inmates at yearend 2001, unchanged, the Federal system will s tnc ed 441,700 ere black an estimated 441,700 were black be the largest by yearend 2002. males between the ages of 20 and 39. - At yearend 2001, privately operated At yearend 2001, 10.0% of black facilities housed 91,828 inmates males age 25 to 29 were in prison, (5.8% of State and 12.3% of Federal compared to 2.9% of Hispanic males inmates); local jails housed 70,681 and 1.2% of white males in the same State and Federal inmates (5.0% of age group. all prisoners).

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