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2016 Prisoners in 1 (2016)

handle is hein.death/prsin2016 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics January 2018, NCJ 251149 Prisoners in 2016 E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., BJS Statistician T he United States had an estimated 1,505,400 prisoners under the jurisdiction of state and federal correctional authorities as of December 31, 2016 (year-end). This was a decline of 21,200 prisoners (down 1%) from year-end 2015. State prisons held 13,900 fewer prisoners in 2016 than in 2015, while the federal prison population decreased by 7,300 (down almost 4%). For sentenced prisoners, the imprisonment rates at year-end 2016 were the lowest since 1997, with 450 prisoners per 100,000 U.S. residents of all ages and 582 per 100,000 U.S. residents age 18 or older (figure 1). Sentenced prisoners exclude those who have not received a term of imprisonment by the court and those with a sentence of 1 year or less. Findings 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 Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) on prisoner counts, characteristics, admissions, releases, and prison capacity. This report is the 91st in a series that began in 1926. Forty-eight states and the BOP reported NPS data for 2016, while data for North Dakota and Oregon were obtained from other sources or were imputed (see Methodology). FIGURE 1 Imprisonment rate of sentenced prisoners under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional authorities, per 100,000 U.S. residents, 1978-2016 Rate per 100,000 residents 700 Age 18 or older All ages 0 1978 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 20152016 Note: Jurisdiction refers to the legal authority of state or federal correctional officials over a prisoner, regardless of where the prisoner is held. Counts are based on prisoners with sentences of more than 1 year. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics, 1978-2016; and U.S. Census Bureau, postcensal resident population estimates for January 1 of the following calendar year. HIGHLIGHTS The number of prisoners under state and federal jurisdiction at year-end 2016 (1,505,400) decreased by 21,200 (down more than 1%) from year-end 2015. The federal prison population decreased by 7,300 prisoners from 2015 to 2016 (down almost 4%), accounting for 34% of the total change in the U.S. prison population. State and federal prisons had jurisdiction over 1,458,200 persons sentenced to more than 1 year at year-end 2016. The imprisonment rate in the United States decreased 2%, from 459 prisoners per 100,000 U.S. residents of all ages in 2015 to 450 per 100,000 in 2016. State and federal prisons admitted 2,300 fewer prisoners in 2016 than in 2015. * The Federal Bureau of Prisons accounted for 96% of the decline in admissions (down 2,200 admissions). More than half (54%) of state prisoners were serving sentences for violent offenses at year-end 2015, the most recent year for which data are available. Nearly half (47%) of federal prisoners had been sentenced for drug offenses on September 30, 2016, the most recent date for which federal offense data were available. The number of prisoners held in private facilities in 2016 (128,300) increased 2% from year-end 2015 (up 2,100). * The number of females sentenced to more than 1 year in state or federal prison increased by 500 from 2015 to 2016. BIS

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