by Zach Dawes Jr | Feb 27, 2023 | Feature|News
The U.S. prison population decreased from 2020 to 2021, while the jail population increased, according to reports published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics in late-December 2022. At the end of 2021, there were 1,204,300 people in U.S. prisons, a 1% decline from...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Dec 29, 2021 | News
There were 1,215,821 people in U.S. state and federal prisons at the end of 2020 and 549,100 in U.S. jails at mid-year 2020, according to two Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reports published in early December. This is a 15% (214,400-person) and a 25%...
