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BJS: ONE IN EVERY 31 U.S. ADULTS WAS IN A PRISON OR JAIL OR ON PROBATION OR PAROLE AT THE END OF LAST YEAR

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Bureau of Justice Statistics DECEMBER 5, 2007 ONE IN EVERY 31 U.S. ADULTS WAS IN A PRISON OR JAIL OR ON PROBATION OR PAROLE AT THE END OF LAST YEAR WASHINGTON ? The U.S. adult correctional population ? incarcerated or in the community ? reached 7.2 million men and women, an increase of 159,500 during the year, the Justice Department?s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today in a new report. About 3.2 percent of the U.S. adult population, or 1 in every 31 adults, was in the nation?s prisons or jails or on probation or parole at the end of 2006. The number of men and women who were being supervised on probation or parole in the United States at year-end 2006 reached 5 million for the first time, an increase of 87,852 (or 1...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 12, 2008 (boomark / email).