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2011 Prisoners in 1 (2011)

handle is hein.death/prsin2011 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2012, NCJ 239808 Prisoners in 2011 E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., and William J. Sabol, Ph.D., BJS Statisticians uring 2011, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of state and federal correctional authorities declined by 0.9%, from 1,613,803 to 1,598,780 (figure 1). This decline represented the second consecutive year the prison population in the United States decreased. At yearend 2011, 492 sentenced prisoners per 100,000 U.S. residents were incarcerated, a decrease of 1.7% from the rate in 2010 (500 per 100,000). Both admissions into and releases from prison declined during 2011. Admissions of prisoners sentenced to more than one year in state or federal prison declined by 5.0% from 2010 to 2011, or nearly twice the rate of the decrease (down 2.9%) in releases of sentenced prisoners. The statistics in this report are drawn from the Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) program, which collects annual data from all 50 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons on prisoner counts, characteristics, admissions, releases, and prison capacity. The 2011 NPS collection is number 87 in a series that began in 1925. HIGHLIGHTS Declining for the second consecutive year, state and federal prison populations totaled 1,598,780 at yearend 2011, a decrease of 0.9% (15,023 prisoners) from yearend 2010. State correctional authorities had jurisdiction over 21,663 fewer sentenced inmates in 2011 than in 2010. Seventy percent of this decrease was due to California's Public Safety Realignment program. The number of state and federal prisoners sentenced to more than one year declined by 15,254 individuals, from 1,552,669 in 2010 to 1,537,415 in 2011. The number of sentenced prisoners under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Prisons in 2011 increased by 6,409 inmates (up 3.4%) from 2010. FIGURE 1 Prisoners under state and federal jurisdiction at yearend, 2000-2011 Number 2,000,000 1,500,000 1,000,000 500,000 Annual percent change U . '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '0 '11 On December 31 Note: Jurisdiction refers to the legal authority of state or federal correctional officials over a prisoner regardless of where the prisoner is held. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics Program, 2000-2011. At yearend 2011,492 out of every 100,000 U.S. residents were sentenced to more than one year in prison. During 2011, the number of releases from state and federal prisons (688,384) exceeded the number of admissions (668,800). In 2010, 53% of prisoners incarcerated under state jurisdiction (725,000) were serving time for violent offenses. Nearly half (48%) of inmates in federal prison were serving time for drug offenses in 2011, while slightly more than a third (35%) were incarcerated for public-order crimes. At yearend 2011, 39% of sentenced state and federal prisoners were age 40 or older. CD -S BJS

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