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2003 Prisoners in 1 (2003)

handle is hein.death/prsin2003 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs November 2004, NCJ 205335 Prisoners in 2003 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 1,470,045 at yearend 2003. During the year the States added 20,370 prisoners and the Federal prison system added 9,531 prisoners. Overall, the Nation's prison population grew 2.1%, which was less than the average annual growth of 3.4% since yearend 1995. The rate of incarceration in prison at yearend 2003 was 482 sentenced inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents - up from 411 in 1995. About 1 in every 109 men and 1 in every 1,613 women were sentenced prisoners under the jurisdiction of State or Federal authorities. Overall, the United States incarcerated 2,212,475 persons at yearend 2003. This total represents persons held in - - Federal and State prisons (1,387,848, which excludes State and Federal prisoners in local jails) - territorial prisons (16,494) - local jails (691,301) - facilities operated by or exclusively for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, formerly the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (10,323) - military facilities (2,165) - jails in Indian country (2,006 as of midyear 2002) - juvenile facilities (102,338 as of October 2002). Smaller States had high rates of prison population growth during 2003 Prison Number Incarceration Inmates per Growth, 12/31/02 Percent population of inmates rate, 12/31/03 100,000 residents* to 12/31/03 change 5 highest Federal 173,059 Louisiana 801 North Dakota 11.4% Texas 166,911 Mississippi 768 Minnesota 10.3 California 164,487 Texas 702 Montana 8.9 Florida 79,594 Oklahoma 636 Wyoming 7.8 New York 65,198 Alabama 635 Hawaii 7.5 5 lowest North Dakota 1,239 Maine 149 Connecticut -4.2% Wyoming 1,872 Minnesota 155 New York -2.8 Vermont 1,944 North Dakota 181 Michigan -2.4 Maine 2,013 Rhode Island 184 New Jersey -2.3 New Hampshire 2,434 New Hampshire 188 Ohio -1.9 *Prisoners with a sentence of more than 1 year per 100,000 in the resident population. o During 2003, 11 States had o On December 31, 2003, State increases of at least 5%, led by North prisons were estimated to be at Dakota (up 11.4%), Minnesota (up capacity to 16% above capacity; 10.3%), and Montana (up 8.9%). Federal prisons were operating at o During 2003, 11 States experi- 39% above capacity. enced prison population decreases, o At yearend 2003, 101,179 women led by Connecticut (down 4.2%), New were in State or Federal prisons - York (down 2.8%), Michigan (down 6.9% of all prison inmates. 2.4%), and New Jersey (down 2.3%). o Among the more than 1.4 million o In 2003 the number of inmates sentenced inmates at yearend 2003, under State jurisdiction increased by an estimated 403,165 were black 20,370 inmates (1.6%), less than the males between the ages of 20 and growth in 2002 (2.4%). 39. At yearend 2003, 9.3% of black males age 25 to 29 were in prison, * The Federal Bureau of~ Prisons compared to 2.6% of Hispanic males increased by over 9,500 inmates and 1.1% of white males in the same (5.8%). The Federal system is the age group. largest prison system. l In 2003 an estimated 388,700 o At yearend 2003 privately operated sentenced State and Federal inmates facilities housed 95,522 inmates were between ages 40 and 54, up (5.7% of State and 12.6% of Federal from 236,000 in 1995. These inmates inmates); local jails housed 73,343 accounted for about 46% of the total State and Federal inmates (5.0% of growth (324,258) in the sentenced all prisoners), prison population since 1995.

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