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2007 Prisoners in 1 (2007)

handle is hein.death/prsin2007 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs December 2008, NCJ 224280 Prisoners in 2007 By Heather C. West and William J. Sabol, Ph.D. BJS Statisticians This report presents data from the National Prisoner Statistics program. It describes the change in the prison population during 2007 and the characteristics of the 1,598,316 prisoners under state or federal jurisdiction on December 31, 2007. Additionally, it provides the imprison- ment rates and age, race, gender distributions for the 1,532,817 prisoners sentenced to more than one year. It quantifies changes in prison admissions and releases, inmates held in custody, prison capacity, and components of the total incarcerated population. Growth in the prison population slowed during 2007 At yearend 2007, federal and state correctional authorities had jurisdiction over 1,598,316 prisoners (1,483,896 males; 114,420 females) (table 1). Jurisdiction refers to the legal authority over a prisoner, regardless of where the pris- oner is held. After increasing 2.8% during 2006, the growth of the prison population slowed to 1.8% during 2007. The 1.8% increase was slower than the average annual growth witnessed from 2000 to 2006 (2.0%). During 2007, the prison population increased more rapidly than the U.S. resident population. The imprisonment rate-the number of sentenced prisoners per 100,000 resi- dents-increased from 501 prisoners per 100,000 U.S. res- idents in 2006 to 506 prisoners per 100,000 U.S. residents in 2007. From 2000 through 2007, the imprisonment rate increased from 475 per 100,000 U.S. residents to 506 per 100,000 U.S. residents. During these seven years, the number of sentenced prisoners increased by 15% while the general population increased by 6.4%. As in previous years (with the exception of 2002) the major- ity of the 2007 growth in the prison population occurred during the first 6 months of the year (figure 1). From December 31, 2006 to June 30, 2007, the prison population increased by 1.5%, whereas from June 30, 2007 to Decem- ber 31, 2007, the prison population increased 0.2%. Detailed information is available in appendix tables in the online version of this report on the BJS website at <http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ pdf/p07.pdf>. Table 1. Prisoners under state or federal jurisdiction, December 31, 2000, 2006, and 2007 Average annual Percent Number of prisoners change change 2000 2006 2007 2000-06 2006-07 Totala 1,391,261 1,570,691 1,598,316 2.0% 1.8% Federal 145,416 193,046 199,618 4.8 3.4 State 1,245,845 1,377,645 1,398,698 1.7 1.5 Gender Male 1,298,027 1,457,486 1,483,896 1.9% 1.8% Female 93,234 112,459 114,420 3.2 1.7 Sentenced to more than 1 yeara 1,331,278 1,504,660 1,532,817 2.1% 1.9% Imprisonment rateb 478 501 506 0.7% 1.0% alncludes prisoners under the legal authority of state or federal correctional officials. blmprisonment rates are based on U.S. Census Bureau population estimates per 100,000 U.S. residents. Resident population estimates are as of January 1 in each year following the reference year. Annual and 6-month changes in the number of prisoners under state and federal jurisdiction Figure 1 Revised 2/12/09 Percent change 3.0% -

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