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Incarceration rates by state. From various years; latest available as of June 2024. State, federal, and local inmates. [1] This article has lists of US states and US territories by incarceration and correctional supervision rates. There are also counts of inmates for various categories.
The Department of Justice has also released nearly 6,000 prisoners and rolled back some of the outdated sentencing laws facing criminals, especially ones that involve nonviolent drug offenses.
Total U.S. incarceration (prisons and jails) peaked in 2008. Total correctional population peaked in 2007. [14] If all prisoners are counted (including those juvenile, territorial, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) (immigration detention), Indian country, and military), then in 2008 the United States had around 24.7% of the world's 9.8 million prisoners.
Administrative facilities are institutions with special missions, such as the detention of pretrial offenders; the treatment of inmates with serious or chronic medical problems; or the containment of extremely dangerous, violent, or escape-prone inmates.
It takes about $30,000 per year per person to provide drug rehabilitation treatment to inmates. By contrast, the cost of drug rehabilitation treatment outside of a prison costs about $8,000 per year per person. [289] In 2016, over 6 million Americans had lost their right to vote for conviction of a felony. [292]
The program is open to inmates with a documented history of substance use in the 12-month period prior to arrest for the sentence they are currently serving. It is authorized in 18 U.S.C. § 3621. [8] RDAP is only available to inmates in federal prisons; state prisoners are not eligible to participate.
Richland Correctional Institution is a minimum and medium security prison at 1001 Olivesburg Road and has 2,579 inmates as of June, according to ODRC spokeswoman JoEllen Smith.
In the 1980s, there was a movement to crack down on drug users and dealers by using harsher sentences. This created a rapid increase in the number of people in prison that were abusing drugs. The Department of Corrections implemented many prison-based drug treatment programs to help those with addiction, but the DOC was met with many opposers.