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2006 Prisoners in 1 (2006)

handle is hein.death/prsin2006 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs December 2007, NCJ 219416 Prisoners in 2006 By William J. Sabol, Ph.D., Heather Couture and Paige M. Harrison, BJS Statisticians At yearend 2006 Federal and State correctional authorities had jurisdiction over 1,570,861 prisoners, an increase of 2.8% since yearend 2005.1 The Federal system held 12.3% of these prisoners, and States held the remaining 87.7%. The number of prisoners under Federal jurisdiction increased by 5,428 prisoners, and the number under State jurisdiction increased by 37,504 prisoners. Jurisdiction refers to the legal authority over a prisoner regardless of where the prisoner is held. During 2006, the prison population grew at a faster rate than in the previous 5 years. The 2.8% increase in the number of prisoners under State or Federal jurisdiction was larger than the average annual growth rate of 1.9% from 2000 through 2005. It was also larger than the average increase of 2% per year that occurred in the 3 years prior to 2006 (figure 1). However, the 2006 growth rate was less than the annual growth rates of between 3.4% and 8.7% that occurred during the 1990s (see Prisoners in 2000, table 2). Growth in the Federal prison population slowed while growth in State prisoners increased The number of prisoners under Federal jurisdiction during 2006 increased by 2.9%. This increase was less than the average annual growth of 5.8% per year that occurred from 2000 through 2005. Conversely, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of State authorities increased more rapidly during 2006 than in the previous 5 years. The State prison population increased by 2.8% during 2006, compared to an average annual increase of 1.5% from 2000 through 2005 (figure 2). 1State-level prison population data and other detailed information are available in Appendix tables on the BJS Website at <http:// www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/p06.pdf>. Prisoners under State or Federal jurisdiction at yearend, 2000 through 2006 Number of prisoners 1,600,000 Annual percent change 6% 1,550,000 5% 1,500,000 4% Annual percent 1,450,000 change 3% 1,400,000 -4e 2% 1,350,000 10% 1,300,000 0% 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 12 months ending December 31 Figure 1 Annual percent change in number of prisoners under State or Federal jurisdiction, 2000-2006 Annual percent change 10% 6% Federal 6% 4% State 2% 0% 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 12 months ending December 31 Figure 2 @

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