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The state best known for Mount Rushmore has about 6,500 people in prison. South Dakota actually has a higher incarceration rate compared to the average of the rest of the country.
Note: The state, federal, and U.S. total rows sort, but they come back to the top after further sorting. Asterisk (*) indicates "Incarceration in STATE" or "Crime in STATE" links. 2015 male and female incarceration and correctional supervision numbers. Rate is per 100,000 of all ages.
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. State and federal prison and local jail incarcerations dropped by 14% from 2.1 million in 2019 to 1.8 million in mid-2020. [4]
Violent crime rate per 100k population by state (2023) [1] This is a list of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in a population of 100,000 would mean 300 incidents of violent crime per year in that entire population, or 0.3% out of the total.
The Garden State was ranked the third-best state to live in, boasting the No. 1 safety rank — WalletHub reports the state has "the highest number of law enforcement employees per capita."
Other critics have balked at Alabama lawmakers’ willingness to spend $1 billion on a prison when 1 out of 4 children in the state — one of the poorest in the country — and 17% of adults ...
This is a list of lists of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories): US State Prisons Per State Alabama
Data is from World Prison Brief. [1] All but four US states (the exceptions are Rhode Island, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Minnesota) have a higher incarceration rate than Turkey, the nation with the second highest incarceration rate among OECD countries. See: List of U.S. states by incarceration and correctional supervision rate.