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U.S. Prison, Jail Population Continues Upward At Slower Pace

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

U.S. Prison, Jail Population Continues Upward At Slower Pace Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 2:01 pm The nation?s correctional population?prisons, jails, probation, and parole?increased .5 percent last year, about one third of the average annual growth rate since 2000, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics said today. At the end of last year, there were 7.3 million people under correctional supervision, including 5.1 million supervised in the community on probation or parole and 2.3 million in prison or jail. State and federal correctional authorities had more than 1.6 million prisoners at the end of 2008, the equivalent of about one in every 198 persons in the U.S. Growth in the prison population slowed to 0.8 percent during 2008, the smallest annual rate of growth since 2000...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 09, 2009 (boomark / email).