U.S. Department of Justice: The Nation's Prison Population Continues Its Slow Growth; Up 1.9 Percent in 2004

U.S. Newswire › October 23, 2005

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The number of prisoners in the United States rose 1.9 percent during 2004, the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. This was lower than the average annual rate of growth during the last decade (3.2 percent) and just below the growth rate in 2003 (2.0 percent).

The number of inmates under state jurisdiction increased by 20,759 (1.6 percent) and the number under federal jurisdiction by 7,269 (4.2 percent). The total increase in the number of inmates in 2004 was nearly identical to 2003 and about 8,000 fewer than in 2002.

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U.S. Department of Justice: The Nation's Prison Population Continues Its Slow Growth; Up 1.9 Percent in 2004

As of Dec. 31, 2004, there were 2,267,787 people behind bars in the United States, of which 1,421,911 were held in federal and state prisons (not including the 74,718 state and federal inmates incarcera...

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