NCJ Number
182446
Date Published
May 2000
Length
2 pages
Annotation
This article reports criminal justice statistics, most notably the State and Federal prison population topping 1,000,000.
Abstract
At the end of June 1994, the nation's prison population exceeded 1,000,000 for the first time in history. The prison population grew by almost 40,000 inmates during the first half of 1994, the equivalent of more than 1,500 each week. During the preceding 12 months, 11 States recorded prisoner growth rates of 10 percent or more, led by Connecticut (20 percent), Texas (18 percent) and Tennessee (15 percent). In the U.S. at the end of 1993 there were 1,432 black inmates per 100,000 black residents and 203 white inmates per 100,000 white residents. During the first 6 months of 1994, the number of female inmates grew 6.2 percent, compared to a 3.9 percent increase among male inmates. On June 30, 1994, there were 61,872 women in State and Federal prisons-6.1 percent of all prisoners. The male incarceration rate, 719 per 100,000 male residents, was more than 16 times higher than the female incarceration rate-43 per 100,000 female residents.