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2013 Prisoners in 1 (2013)

handle is hein.death/prsin2013 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Revised September 30, 2014 September 2014, NCJ 247282 Prisoners in 2013 E. Ann Carson, Ph.D., BJS Statistician n December 31, 2013, the United States held an estimated 1,574,700 persons in state and federal prisons, an increase of approximately 4,300 prisoners (0.3%) from 2012. This was the first increase reported since the peak of 1,615,500 prisoners in 2009. Although state prisons had jurisdiction over an estimated 6,300 more prisoners at yearend 2013 than at yearend 2012, the increase in prisoners was partially offset by the first decrease (down 1,900 or 0.9%) in inmates under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) since 1980 (figure 1). Prisoners sentenced to more than a year under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional authorities increased by 5,400 inmates from 2012 to 2013. However, the imprisonment rate for all prisoners sentenced to more than a year in state or federal facilities decreased by less than 1% between 2012 and 2013, from 480 prisoners per 100,000 U.S. residents in 2012 to 478 per 100,000 in 2013. Female prisoners sentenced to more than a year in state or federal prison grew by almost 3% (2,800 inmates) between 2012 and 2013, while male prisoners increased 0.2% (2,500). Similar to 2012, non-Hispanic blacks (37%) comprised the largest portion of male inmates under state or federal jurisdiction in 2013, compared to non-Hispanic whites (32%) and Hispanics (22%). White females comprised 49% of the prison population compared to 22% black females. However, the imprisonment rate for black females (113 per 100,000) was twice the rate of white females (51 per 100,000). 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 (DOC) and the BOP on prisoner counts, prisoners characteristics, admissions, releases, and prison capacity. The 2013 NPS collection is number 89 in a series that began in 1926. Forty- nine states and the BOP reported NPS data for 2013, while data for Nevada were obtained from other sources (see Methodology). FIGURE 1 Total state and federal prison populations, 1978-2013 Number of state prisoners 1,500,000 Number of federal prisoners 250,000 State prison population s ... .. 1,200,000 900,000 600,000 00*0 Federal prison population ...wo 300,000 (D - 000 78 '79 '80 '81 '82 '83 '84 '85 '86 '87 '88 '89 '90 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 Note: Counts based on all prisoners under the jurisdiction of state and federal correctional authorities. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics Program, 1978-2013. 200,000 150,000 100,000 50,000 BIS September 2014, NCJ 247282

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