by Zach Dawes Jr | Jun 6, 2022 | News
There were 5,500,600 adults in the U.S. correctional system at the end of 2020, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report published in late March 2022. This is the lowest level since 1996, when 5,531,200 adults were in the system, and it continues more than a...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Aug 6, 2021 | News
The total population in U.S. correctional systems dropped in 2019, marking the 12th straight year of declines, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report published on July 16. At the end of the year in 2019, there were just over 6.3 million people in...