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2015 Prisoners in 1 (2015)

handle is hein.death/prsin2015 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2016, NCJ 250229 Prisoners in 2015 E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., BJS Statistician Elizabeth Anderson, BJS Intern A t yearend 2015, the United States had an estimated 1,526,800 prisoners under the Ajurisdiction of state and federal correctional authorities. This was the smallest U.S. prison population since 2005 (1,525,900 prisoners). The prison population decreased by more than 2% from the number of prisoners held in December 2014 (figure 1). This was the largest decline in the number of persons under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional authorities since 1978 (figure 2). The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) had jurisdiction over 196,500 prisoners at yearend 2015, a decrease of 14,100 prisoners from yearend 2014. This was the third consecutive year that the federal prison population declined and the lowest number of federal prisoners since 2006 (193,000). This decrease in federal prisoners accounted for 40% of the total change in the U.S. prison population. 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 departments of corrections (DOCs) and the BOP on FIGURE 1 Prisoners under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional authorities, December 31, 2005-2015 Number of prisoners 1,800,000 1,600,000- Annual percent change U.S. prison population Percent change' - '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 Note: Jurisdiction refers to the legal authority of state or federal correctional officials over a prisoner, regardless of where the prisoner is held. Federal data include prisoners held in nonsecure, privately operated community corrections facilities and juveniles held in contract facilities. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics, 2005-2015. HIGHLIGHTS * The total number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of state and federal correctional authorities on December 31, 2015 (1,526,800) decreased by 35,500 (down more than 2%) from yearend 2014. The federal prison population decreased by 14,100 prisoners from 2014 to 2015 (down almost 7%), accounting for 40% of the total change in the U.S. prison population. After increasing during the previous 2 years, the number of state and federal female prisoners decreased by 1% in 2015. State and federal prisons had jurisdiction over 1,476,800 persons sentenced to more than 1 year on December 31,2015. * The imprisonment rate in the United States decreased 3%, from 471 prisoners per 100,000 U.S. residents of all ages in 2014 to 458 prisoners per 100,000 in 2015. * State and federal prisons admitted 17,800 fewer prisoners in 2015 and released 4,700 more than in 2014. More than half of prisoners in state prisons (53%) at yearend 2014 were serving sentences for violent offenses, the most recent year for which data are available. Nearly half of federal prisoners incarcerated on September 30, 2015 had been sentenced for drug offenses, the most recent date for which federal offense data were available. BS

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