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U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
Bureau of Justice Statistics
September 2015, NCJ 248955
Prisoners in 2014
E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., B]S Statistician
t yearend 2014, the United States held an
estimated 1,561,500 prisoners in state and
federal correctional facilities, a decrease of
approximately 15,400 prisoners (down 1%) from
December 31, 2013. A third (34%) of the decrease
was due to fewer prisoners under the jurisdiction of
the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), which declined
for the second consecutive year (figure 1). Prisoners
sentenced to more than 1 year in state or federal
prison declined by almost 1% (down 11,800 prison
inmates) from yearend 2013 (1,520,400) to yearend
2014 (1,508,600). The number of prisoners housed
in private facilities in the United States decreased by
almost 2% in 2014 to 131,300 prison inmates.
The statistics in this report are based on the Bureau
of Justice Statistics' (BJS) National Prisoner Statistics
(NPS) program, which collects annual data from state
DOCs and the BOP on prisoner counts, prisoner
characteristics, admissions, releases, and prison
capacity. The 2014 NPS collection is number 90 in
a series that began in 1926. Forty-nine states and
the BOP reported NPS data for 2014, while data for
Alaska were obtained from other sources or imputed.
(See Methodology.)
FIGURE 1
Total, state, and federal U.S. prison population,
2004-2014
Number
1,700,000
1,600,000T o Ta
1,500,000
1,400,000
1,300,000
225,000
200,000
175,000
150,000
Federal
'04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14
Note: Counts based on all prisoners under the jurisdiction of state and
federal correctional authorities.
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics,
2004-2014.
HIGHLIGHTS
* The number of prisoners held by state and federal
correctional authorities on December 31, 2014
(1,561,500) decreased by 15,400 (down 1%) from
yearend 2013.
The federal prison population decreased by 5,300
inmates (down 2.5%) from 2013 to 2014, the second
consecutive year of decline.
* On December 31, 2014, state and federal
correctional authorities held 1,508,600 individuals
sentenced to more than 1 year in prison, 11,800
fewer inmates than at yearend 2013.
The number of women in prison who were
sentenced to more than 1 year increased by 1,900
offenders (up 2%) in 2014 from 104,300 in 2013 to
106,200 in 2014.
The decline in the BOP population in 2014 was
explained by 5% fewer admissions (down 2,800)
than in 2013.
The imprisonment rate declined from 621 prisoners
per 100,000 U.S. residents age 18 or older in 2013 to
612 per 100,000 in 2014.
In 2014, 6% of all black males ages 30 to 39 were
in prison, compared to 2% of Hispanic and 1% of
white males in the same age group.
Violent offenders made up 54% of the state male
prison population at yearend 2013, the most recent
year for which data were available.
The BOP housed 40,000 prisoners in private
secure and nonsecure facilities at yearend
2014, which represents 19% of the total federal
prison population.
Half of males (50%) and more than half of females
(59%) in federal prison were serving time for drug
offenses on September 30, 2014.
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