Perspective: Correctional
Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2020: Correctional Officers and Jailers
Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2020: Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2020: Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists
Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2020: First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officer
Since You Asked: Can Correctional Facilities Negotiate Phone Contracts That Prohibit Deposit Fees? (Yes! Many do.)
Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services
In this document, the Commission continues to comprehensively reform inmate calling services rates to ensure just and reasonable rates for interstate and international inmate calling services. Specifically, the Commission proposes to lower the current interstate rate caps to $0.14 per minute for debit, prepaid, and collect calls from prisons and $0.16 per minute for debit, prepaid, and collect calls from jails. The Commission also proposes to cap rates for international inmate calling services, which remain uncapped today.
Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020
Can it really be true that most people in jail are being held before trial? And how much of mass incarceration is a result of the war on drugs? These questions are harder to answer than you might think, because our country’s systems of confinement are so fragmented. The various government agencies involved in the justice system collect a lot of critical data, but it is not designed to help policymakers or the public understand what’s going on.
Court Appearances in Criminal Proceedings Through Telepresence
Wearable Sensor Technology and Potential Uses Within Law Enforcement
Correctional Populations in the United States, 2017-2018
This report is the 23rd in a series that began in 1985. It provides statistics on populations supervised by adult correctional systems in the United States, including persons held in prisons or jails and those supervised in the community on probation or parole. It provides statistics on the size of the correctional populations at year-end 2017 and year-end 2018, and changes in populations over time.
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People in Jail and Prison in 2020
Jail Inmates in 2018
This report is the 32nd in a series that began in 1982. It provides statistics based on BJS's Annual Survey of Jails and Census of Jail Inmates. It describes the number of inmates held in local jails, jail incarceration rates, demographic characteristics of jail inmates, number of admissions to jail, jail capacity, inmate turnover rates, and staff employed in local jails.
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Probation and Parole in the United States, 2017-2018
This report is the 27th in a series that began in 1980. It provides national data on the adult population on probation or parole in 2017 and 2018. It describes trends in the overall community-supervision population and annual changes in probation and parole populations.
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Prisoners in 2019
This report is the 94th in a series that began in 1926. It provides counts of prisoners under the jurisdiction of state and federal correctional authorities in 2019 and includes findings on admissions, releases, and imprisonment rates. It describes demographic and offense characteristics of state and federal prisoners.
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Prisons and Penny-Pinching: Finding Budget Savings in the Time of COVID-19
Black Imprisonment Rate In the U.S. Has Fallen By a Third Since 2006
The nation’s imprisonment rate is at its lowest level in more than two decades. The greatest decline has come among black Americans, whose imprisonment rate has decreased 34% since 2006.
<p>Under Trump, The Federal Prison Population Continued Its Recent Decline
The number of federal prisoners sentenced to more than a year behind bars decreased by 5% (or 7,607 inmates) between 2017, Trump’s first year in office, and the end of 2019, the most recent year for which final data is available from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
BOP COVID-19 Coronavirus Resources
COVID-19 Vaccine Doses - Media Analysis
COVID-19 Criminal Justice Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic
UCLA Law Covid Behind Bars Data Project
Impact of COVID-19 on the Local Jail Population, January-June 2020
Local jails in the United States experienced a large decline in their inmate populations from June 30, 2019 to June 30, 2020, which can be attributed mainly to the COVID-19 pandemic. The inmate population confined in local jails was 549,100 at the end of June 2020, down from 734,500 at the end of June 2019. The midyear 2020 inmate population was the lowest since 1996, when 518,500 inmates were confined in local jails (not shown in tables).