The Punishing Decade: Prison and Jail Estimates at the Millennium.
[1] May 2000. Justice Policy Institute. See
PDF file.
[2] Includes several timelines. Uses BJS and other data. Graph 1 for "Number of Prison and Jail Inmates, 1910-2000" has the numbers through 2001. It does not separate federal, state, and jail inmates. Sources listed in the endnotes do. See
Prisoners in 2008. NCJ 228417.
U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. See table 9 on page 8 of the
PDF file. 2,424,279 inmates in 2008 (USA and territories). Table 9 has the number of inmates in state or federal public prison facilities, local jails, U.S. territories, military facilities, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) owned and contracted facilities, jails in Indian country, and juvenile facilities. See Table 9 here too:
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Number and rate (per 100,000 U.S. residents) of persons in State and Federal prisons, local jails. United States, 1985, 1990-2008. Includes both sentenced and unsentenced inmates. There are separate totals for federal and state prisoners.
PDF file.
CSV file.
Number and rate (per 100,000 resident population in each group) of sentenced prisoners under jurisdiction of State and Federal correctional authorities on December 31. By sex, United States, 1925-2008. Does not include jail inmates.
PDF file.
CSV file.
Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate. USA has highest incarceration rate. Majority of U.S. inmates are in due to drug war. Drug crimes, drug-related crimes (such as robbing to get money for drugs that are expensive because of the drug war), drug trade crimes, drug-related parole violations, etc..
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