New Study Reports Growing Population of Americans Sentenced to ...

Approximately 10,000 of those serving life sentences have been convicted of nonviolent offenses, and more than 10,000 have been convicted of ...

Mass Incarceration Trends - The Sentencing Project

Report highlights the growth in state and federal prison populations since the early 1970s, and its far reaching effect on families, communities, and society ...

Prisoners in 2022 – Statistical Tables - Bureau of Justice Statistics

The U.S. prison population was 1,230,100 at yearend 2022, a 2% increase from yearend 2021 (1,205,100). The number of females in state or federal ...

2023 Demographic Differences in Federal Sentencing Report

age was associated with a sentence length increase of 1.3 percent (Table 5). ... 46 Non-U.S. citizens received sentences that were 1.1 percent ...

States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2024

The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on earth — worse, every single state incarcerates more people per capita than most ...

Growth in Mass Incarceration - The Sentencing Project

Prison Population Over Time ... There are 2 million people in the nation's prisons and jails—a 500% increase over the last 40 years. Changes in sentencing law and ...

New Analysis Shows U.S. Imposes Long Prison Sentences More ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – New research released today by a Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) task force shows that while the use of prison sentences of ...

Prisons Report Series: Preliminary Data Release

The U.S. prison population was 1,230,100 on December 31, 2022, a 2% increase from 2021 (1,205,100). At yearend 2022, persons sentenced to more ...

2023 Demographic Differences in Federal Sentencing

Hispanic females received sentences 27.8 percent longer than White females, while Other race females received sentences 10.0 percent shorter.

Why did prison and jail populations grow in 2022

The new BJS data show that the total national prison population grew by over 2%, with 42 states and the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) incarcerating more ...

Study: 1 in 7 U.S. prisoners is serving life, and two-thirds of those are ...

In America, over 203,000 people are serving life sentences in prison, more than the country's entire prison population in 1970. Of the lifers, ...

The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes ...

Just under one-quarter of the world's prisoners are held in American prisons. The U.S. rate of incarceration, with nearly 1 out of every 100 adults in prison or ...

Criminal Justice Fact Sheet | NAACP

Criminal Justice System: Corrections · There are 3 million people in jail and prison today, far outpacing population growth and crime. · Despite making up close ...

America's incarceration rate falls to lowest level since 1995

... report from the U.S. Sentencing Commission. See also: Under Trump, the federal prison population continued its recent decline. Despite these ...

DPIC Summary of Sentencing Project's New Study

Twenty-nine percent of these (41,095) are serving life sentences without the possibility for parole, a 22% increase between 2003 and 2008. Six states – Illinois ...

Overlooked: Women and Jails in an Era of Reform - Vera Institute

Since 1970, there has been a nearly five-fold increase in the number of people in U.S. jails—the approximately 3,000 county or municipality-run detention ...

Gallup Poll—For First Time, Majority of Americans Prefer Life ...

In his analysis of the poll for Gallup, Jones wrote, “all key subgroups show increased preferences for life imprisonment. This includes ...

2 Rising Incarceration Rates - The National Academies Press

In absolute numbers, the prison and jail population had grown to 2.23 million people, yielding a rate of incarceration that was by far the highest in the world.

Women in jails are the fastest growing incarcerated population ...

Women held in local jails represent the fastest growing population of incarcerated people in the US, according to a new study.

New York's Prison Population Continues Decline, But Share of Older ...

Nearly 1-in-4 (24.3%) of the state's 31,262 incarcerated individuals were 50 and above in March 2021. Thirteen years earlier, just 12% of the ...