The Crime Report
WASHINGTON — The total U.S. correctional population—including people serving prison and jail sentences and those on probation and parole—decreased by 0.8 percent (52,200 people) from 2013 to 2014, according to a report released yesterday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Researchers attribute the slight drop to a decline in the number of people under community supervision, which has decreased by an average 1.2 percent per year since 2007. But the number of inmates in prisons and jails increased by about 1,900 in 2014.
The report also found the jail population grew by 1.8 percent during 2014 while the prison population dropped by 1 percent—a decrease attributed to a decline in state prison populations (10,100) and federal prison populations (5,300).
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