BJS has released Jail Inmates in 2023 – Statistical Tables. It describes the number of persons held in local jails, inmate demographics, jail incarceration rates, conviction status and offense characteristics, the number of admissions to jail, persons supervised outside of jail, jail capacity, and staff employed in local jails. Findings in this report are based on the 2013 to 2018 and 2020 to 2023 Annual Survey of Jails and the 2019 Census of Jails. This report is the 37th in a series that began in 1982.
This year's report was released in an interactive, web-based format that provides enhanced navigation capabilities and new ways of displaying and accessing the statistics.
Jail Inmates in 2023 – Statistical Tables (NCJ 309965) was written by BJS Statistician Zhen Zeng, PhD. The report, related documents, and additional information about BJS’s statistical publications and programs are available on the BJS website at bjs.ojp.gov.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States.
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