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The United States has one of the highest rates of female incarceration. [10] According to a November 2017 report by the World Prison Brief around 212,000 of the 714,000 female prisoners worldwide (women and girls) are incarcerated in the United States. [ 11 ]
Incarceration rates by state. From various years; latest available as of June 2024. State, federal, and local inmates. [1] The United States in 2022 had the fifth highest incarceration rate in the world, at 541 people per 100,000. [2] [3] Between 2019 and 2020, the United States saw a significant drop in the total number of incarcerations.
The 2021 US incarceration rate of 531 per 100,000 population was the 6th highest rate. [1] According to the World Prison Population List (11th edition) there were around 10.35 million people in penal institutions worldwide in 2015. [5] The US had 2,173,800 prisoners in adult facilities in 2015. [6]
That year, the state had an incarceration rate of 930 per 100,000 people. In 2018, report findings showed Kentucky ranked ninth with a rate of 869 per 100,000. The state ranked 14th in 2016.
The United States maintains a higher incarceration rate than most developed countries. [8] According to the World Prison Brief on May 7, 2023, the United States has the sixth highest incarceration rate in the world, at 531 people per 100,000. Expenses related to prison, parole, and probation operations have an annual estimated cost of around ...
A new report from Wisconsin Policy Forum shows that the state has some of the highest rates of incarceration, especially of Black residents, in the nation.
Which is odd if you consider that from 1985 to 2018, Kentucky’s overall jail and prison population incarceration rate more than tripled, according to the Vera Institute study, from 382 to 1,320 ...
Incarceration numbers. Rates are per 100,000 inhabitants. [1] Location Rates Number Afghanistan 45 19,000 Albania 168 4,565 Algeria 217 94,749 American Samoa (USA) 538 301 Andorra 60 51 Angola 68 24,490 Anguilla (United Kingdom) 240 36 Antigua and Barbuda 400 400 Argentina 254 117,810 Armenia 83 2,469 Aruba (Netherlands) 288 311 Australia: 157 ...