Correctional Populations in the United States, 2019 – Statistical Tables

• NCJ Number: 300655
• Author(s): Todd D. Minton, BJS Statistician; Lauren G. Beatty, BJS Statistician; Zhen Zeng, PhD, BJS Statistician
• Date Published: July 2021
• Publication Series: Correctional Populations in the United States
• Publication Type: Publication

Description

This report presents statistics on persons supervised by U.S. adult correctional systems at year-end 2019, including those supervised in the community on probation or parole and persons incarcerated in state or federal prison or local jail. It describes the size and change in the total correctional population from 2009 to 2019.

Highlights

• In 2019, the number of persons supervised by U.S. adult correctional systems (6,344,000) decreased (down 65,200 persons) for the twelfth consecutive year.
• The 1.0% decline in the correctional population during 2019 was due to decreases in the community supervision (down 0.9%) and incarcerated (down 1.7%) populations.
• Since 2009, the correctional population decreased by 12.4% (down 895,200 persons), an average of 1.3% annually.
• At year-end 2019, about 2,480 per 100,000 adult U.S. residents were under correctional supervision, the lowest rate since 1991.