t• Over 2.3 million Americans (about 1% of the population) are currently incarcerated. That is the highest percentage in the world, ahead of Russia, St. Kitts and Nevis, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Turkmenistan.
• It costs taxpayers about $23,000 a year to house and feed each prisoner.
• About seven percent of U.S. federal prisoners are female.
• Over 75% of women incarcerated in the U.S. are single mothers.
• Over half of all federal prisoners are being incarcerated for drug offenses.
• About 73% of American federal prison inmates are U.S. citizens and 16% are Mexican.
• Whites make up 56% of all federal prisoners; 40% are black, 2% are Native American and 2% are Asian.
• According to one study, African-American men are twice as likely to spend time in jail during their lifetime as they are to earn a bachelor’s degree.
• Between 1930-2007, 4,958 prisoners were executed in the U.S.
• In Florida, the oldest male state prisoner is Frank Rowland, 89, who is serving a life sentence for sexual molestation. The oldest female is Marie Otero, also 89, who is serving a 31-year murder sentence.
• In 1981, an Alabama judge gave Dudley Wayne Kyzer what is believed to be the longest sentence ever dispensed in American history--10,000 years for killing his wife. He also received life sentences for murdering his mother-in-law and a college student.
• Rikers Island in New York is considered the world’s largest penal colony. As many as 130,000 inmates reside there each year (although only about 15,000 at any one time).
• William Heirens has been serving in an Illinois state prison since September, 1946. The 79-year-old killed three women. His 61 years behind bars is probably the longest sentence currently being served.
• California has the most populous prison system in the nation, with about 175,000 inmates.
• North Dakota has about 1,300 inmates, making its prison population the smallest in the U.S.
Quick Facts About the Bureau of Prisons
Data presented here is from BOP automated information systems. Because of the timing of updates to these various systems, Quick Facts is updated monthly. Percentages may not add to 100 due to rounding.
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| Please see the most recent Weekly Population Report for individual BOP institutions figures. |
Last Updated: Saturday, 26 September 2009
| Total population: | 208,668 |
| Total sentenced population: | 190,654 |
| Inmates in BOP facilities: | 172,827 |
| Inmates in privately-managed secure facilities1: | 22,017 |
| Inmates in other contract facilities2: | 13,824 |
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1 Includes inmates housed in privately-managed secure facilities under contract with the BOP or with a state or local government that has an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with the BOP.
2 Includes inmates housed in community corrections centers, home confinement, jail/short-term detention, contract juveniles, and long-term boarders. |
| Inmates By Security Level |
| Minimum: | | 16.7 % |
| Low: | | 38.2 % |
| Medium: | | 29.7 % |
| High: | | 11.0 % |
| Unclassified1: | | 4.3 % |
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| Inmates By Gender |
| Male: | 194,827 | (93.4 %) |
| Female: | 13,841 | (6.6 %) |
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| Inmates By Race |
| White: | 119,831 | (57.4 %) |
| Black: | 81,446 | (39.0 %) |
| Native American: | 3,726 | (1.8 %) |
| Asian: | 3,665 | (1.8 %) |
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| Citizenship |
| United States: | 152,942 | (73.3 %) |
| Mexico: | 37,183 | (17.8 %) |
| Colombia: | 2,782 | (1.3 %) |
| Cuba: | 1,837 | (0.9 %) |
| Dominican Republic: | 2,830 | (1.4 %) |
| Other/Unknown: | 11,094 | (5.3 %) |
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| 1These inmates have not yet been assigned a security level. |
| Less than 1 year: | 3,668 | (1.9 %) |
| 1-3 years: | 24,023 | (12.4 %) |
| 3-5 years: | 28,419 | (14.7 %) |
| 5-10 years: | 57,820 | (29.8 %) |
| 10-15 years: | 38,627 | (19.9 %) |
| 15-20 years: | 16,748 | (8.6 %) |
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| More than 20 years: | 18,550 | (9.6 %) |
| Life: | 6,023 | (3.1 %) |
| Death: | 51 | |
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| * Data is only calculated for cases where sentencing information is available. |
| Drug Offenses: | 100,415 | (51.8 %) |
| Weapons, Explosives, Arson: | 29,187 | (15.1 %) |
| Immigration: | 21,911 | (11.3 %) |
| Robbery: | 8,805 | (4.5 %) |
| Burglary, Larceny, Property Offenses: | 6,857 | (3.5 %) |
| Extortion, Fraud, Bribery: | 9,568 | (4.9 %) |
| Homicide, Aggravated Assault, and Kidnapping Offenses: | 5,505 | (2.8 %) |
| Miscellaneous: | 2,035 | (1.0 %) |
| Sex Offenses: | 7,365 | (3.8 %) |
| Banking and Insurance, Counterfeit, Embezzlement: | 867 | (0.4 %) |
| Courts or Corrections: | 674 | (0.3 %) |
| Continuing Criminal Enterprise: | 533 | (0.3 %) |
| National Security: | 96 | (0.0 %) |
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| * Data calculated for those with offense-specific information available. |
| Staff By Race/Ethnicity |
| White (Non-Hispanic): | 23,276 | (63.9 %) |
| African American: | 7,722 | (21.2 %) |
| Hispanic: | 4,136 | (11.4 %) |
| Asian: | 762 | (2.1 %) |
| Native American: | 528 | (1.5 %) |
| Other: | 15 | |
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| Staff By Gender |
| Male: | 26,392 | (72.4 %) |
| Female: | 10,051 | (27.6 %) |
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