Reading that at the end of 2015 over 6.7 millions people were under some sort of supervision is absurd because we are showing that instead of getting some of these people that have drug or alcohol problems help we are just putting them into the criminal justice system whether that be under probation or in jails and prisons. Even though this is lower than the previous years and the first time this number has dropped below 6.8 million in thirteen years is crazy. We need to go back to before we were locking people up for drug crimes that may not have been very serious amounts. We need to send these people to rehab because if we lock them up or put them under probation all they are going to do is just keep reoffending until they can get some actual help. The ones we need to lock up are the serious offenders and those who are dealing the drugs to those who can not stop. Seeing that about one in every thirty-seven adults are under some sort of supervision is mind-boggling. We need to be helping and giving these people more opportunities at rehab, so they will be able to get a job once they are released. Seeing table 1 and recognizing that most of the people who are in the corrections system population are under probation is a little relieving, because this shows that we are not directly locking people up we are giving them some sort of opportunity to turn their lives around and to try and get back on their feet. Some of these people may have been drunk and done a stupid mistake, which if we lock them up for a year is not going to help anything we need to give them the opportunity for probation and make them go to some sort of rehab. Seeing that over the last eight years we have been decreasing all of our correction populations is good, because we all have done some sort of stupid thing that was illegal we just never got caught which most of these people will only be doing one thing then they will probably never reoffend again. Looking at table 2 even though we are decreasing the overall correction population the percent of those who are going to jail rather than getting probation is higher than what it was back in 2007. Seeing that it took over twenty years for our country have its lowest supervision rate is crazy, because most of the time in between these years were when we were tough on drugs and most of these are because of the heroin epidemic. Illini456
After Reading this report it looks like we might be on the mend for our correctional system having finally dropped to a rate that hasn't been seen for almost 25 years. Yes, 6,741,000 is still an enormous amount but the data shows that we have had a somewhat steady drop in the number of people in the correctional systems. What's great as well is that it seems like the drops in numbers are happening in every area of the correction system. There was the 2.3 percent drop in incarceration populations and the 1.3 percent decrease in community supervision programs. What I am curious about is the reason for the steady decline in the incarcerated and community supervision populations. If I had to guess it could be the changes we have been having with our drug laws and minor non violent offences. People in the correctional system have started to realize that the way we go about punishing criminals is not the most effective way of doings things and thus are changing to better improve our incarceration levels. Anyways while we still have a long way to go to lowering the correctional populations I think the system as a whole is improving. CoffeeAddict456
As previously stated, it’s very interesting to see the correlation between presidential and congressional policy, and the correctional population of the United States. Between the years of 2000 and 2008 the prison population steadily increased, capping out at just over seven million people incarcerated within both federal and state prison systems. The political orientation of our government during this time was, of course, republican. The policies imposed by President George W. Bush and his republican-controlled congress sympathized with policy of the War on Drugs imposed by Nixon in 1971. It makes sense then, that this increase was accounted for by drug offenders. When President Obama took office in 2009, the prisoner population fell accordingly and steadily until the end of this report. Obama was well-known for his policy on drugs, which was opposed the policy imposed by Bush. President Obama and his democrat-controlled congress encouraged the decriminalization and rehabilitation of drug offenses and drug offenders, respectively. I believe that this is what was responsible for the mountain-shaped graph on this report. What’s also interesting is the fact that in 2015, the decrease in the probation population accounted for 68% of the total decline within the correctional population. This can mean a few things. It can mean that we’re using probation less and opting to send offenders to prison rather than probation. This isn’t true, because we would see an increase in the incarcerated population between 2014 and 2015, which isn’t present. In fact, the incarcerated population dropped by 51,300 people within that period. The second possible occurrence is that probation is actually succeeding in reducing recidivism better than it previously was. This is plausible, seeing as it matches up with the provided statistics. The third option, which is also plausible, is that we aren’t criminalizing the same crimes that we were in 2014 and, therefore, we have less offences taking place. This is also plausible, what with the decriminalization of marijuana in multiple states and municipalities across the country. This appears to be a good thing, regardless. The parole population also increased by 12,800 during this time, which is also very interesting. It could imply that the corrections system is orienting more towards the use of rehabilitation rather than incarceration. -TheTurk456
After just reading the first line I was shocked that just in 2015 an estimated 6,741,400 people were under the supervision of the U.S. adult correctional systems. This number may seem huge and it is but it is actually 115,000 fewer people that the following year. This is also the first time since 2002 that the correctional population fell below 6.8 million people. These number patterns of going up and down constantly are very similar to those of the jail population they started low then rose sharply and then bounced up and down till the present years. Over the years of 2007 to 2015 the amount of people in probation decreased much more than that of the prison population. Probation population went down by nearly 600,000 and the prison population decreased but 70,000 which isn’t very much but is still more than the 44,000 from parole. Another thing that shocked me was on table 5 from 2000 to 2004 they didn’t have any statistics for people on parole in local jails, state or federal prison. This shocked me because there had to be people on parole in those years they couldn’t have just had no one then jumped to 18,000 people in on year so where did the statistics go from there? Why is it that every statistic goes up super high then falls very far but then rises again? Why can we not seem to figure out what is going on in our prisons and jails to make it so there is not so many people in probation or on parole? The stats show that of the 6.7 million of the correctional population 4.6 million are on probation or parole. These numbers just show we have a serious issue with locking people up and putting them on probation or parole. There needs to be a new statistic that shows how many people ended up not going back to jail or prison because of their probation or parole sentences. -CarlBaconWho456
In 2015 the correctional population experienced the same result like in 2002 there was under 6.8 million people incarcerated which still to this day is the lowest numbers we have ever had in the system. It led to supervision decrease because it has never been that low. It surprises me that numbers have dropped that low do to the population because there has been a large amount of people since 2000 to know and for it to be just now dropping low is blowing my mind i figured it would have sky rocketed by now. But the reason why it was so low was because they reduce the supervision which people wouldn't get caught if there isn't anyone to catch them because no parole officer they will do whatever it takes to break the law again. These number constantly go up and down because of the jail populations . That also went down because probation had a fall because of the supervision which is a chain cycle between all three a huge chain effect. Once one goes lower then they all get effected. What i dont understand is when one goes down a percent in a couple years it either sky rockets or it will be a record low that none of these years were very steady with each other. It should always be a steady flow in statistics but it goes down a couple thousands or millions. These numbers definetly show a flaw in the system because we are either not locking up enough people or we are locking up too many people for petty crimes which are not serious at all. This is a huge comparison to now in 2017 compared to 2015 numbers have grown so large compared to 2015 because so many people are being ticketed for small crimes and locking them up for years which is a major flaw in the system. Shark456
The incarcerated population in 2015 fell to the lowest since 2004 which doesn't surprise me because the drop in community supervision was the effect of the population going down so rapidly by 2% it dropped which doesn't seem like a lot but if you think about it the 2% is 115,600 people being dropped. But it is a lot of people to be dropped because in 2015 1 in 37 adults was under some type of supervision which has been the lowest since 1994 that is a huge change in statistics. The population drop was also from the drop in prison population which dropped almost 40,000 people in the prison population. It went from a hug spike in 2007 to a very low drop in 2015 within 8 years it dropped very low with not even a steady cost to 2015 it was up and down. The flaw in the system is that people being locked up in 2017 compared to 2015 is being locked up for small amounts of weed or minor crimes and people that abuse or rape don't have as a long of sentence the system really needs to change that. In order for us to have healthy numbers each year is to have treatment when they get out because they don't have anything so they go right back to drugs and stealing which the cycle ends at prison. It is proven that inmates who get released do better after they have attended treatment centers for rehabilitation centers to show them the way so they don't end up back in prison and our numbers don't rise. LowandSlow456
The first thing that shocked us was that in 2015 there was an estimated 6.741,400 people who were under supervision of the correctional system, but that is about 115,600 fewer than 2014. The population declined 1.7 percent in 2015. The prison population, according to figure 1 has never been constant; it always seems to go up and down. It was due to a reduction in the community supervision and incarcerated populations. The year-to-year change in confined jail population among respondents to both the 2014 and 2015 DCRP was computed within the state. This was the first time that the correctional system had fell under 6.8 million people since 2002. It is kind of crazy that it was the first time falling under 6.8 million people. It is surprising to think that, that many people are behind bars. I knew there was a lot but for it to be that big of a number is shocking to me, but then I think about all the people who are locked away that could be innocent or even in for petty crimes. This surprised me because of how much crime is currently talked about and how much the media talks about. You would think that crime has went up in some type of way, but, it has gone down. This only should tell someone that the media may exaggerate things just for views. The correctional system is not the only things the only thing they exaggerate, they do every topic that comes across them to be put on the air. The decrease of the numbers was due to both the community supervision and corrections supervision. Community supervision means such as probation or parole. The decrease in the community supervision population during the 2015 accounted for more than half of the correctional population. Which is why the correctional population declined. The number of people that was on community supervision declined from 62,300,000 to 4,650,900. The estimated number of males and females with dual community supervision statuses was then subtracted from the number of males under correctional supervision by jurisdiction. This same method was used to adjust the number of females under correctional supervision. This is a dramatic change and shows just how many people have gotten off probation or parole. Since 2007 the annual average supervision decreased by 1.2%. It is great to see that most populations are decreasing, but I tend to think that they would have an even larger percentage if all correctional systems had the appropriate programs for everyone. ~Bears456 and Latte456
You would think because of how much how popular probation is more people would be on it. But they aren't this is the lowest they have seen people under community supervision since 2007. I think the prisoner that are locked up for marijuana should be put on probation or just get fined for it, not lock them away for years. Although prisons may be the only option for some people it may not be for a lot of people. Between 2007 and 2015 the population declined by 598,300 persons. Even the number of people on probation decreased by 84 percent and 503,200 people. The parole population was the only one to increase up to 44,000. After peaking at 3,210 offenders per 100,000 U.S. adult residents in 2007, the correctional supervision rate trended downward, falling to a low of 2,710 per 100,000 by yearend 2015. Probation and parole agencies may not always be notified immediately of new arrests, jail admissions, or prison admissions. Absconders included in a probation or parole agency’s population in one jurisdiction may be incarcerated in another jurisdiction. To estimate the number of males and females on parole who were also on probation in 2014 and 2015, the distribution of the parole population by sex within the reference year was applied to the number of parolees on probation in each jurisdiction. Declines in both the U.S. prison (down 2.3%) and local jail (down 2.2%) populations contributed to the decrease in the incarcerated population during 2015. However, 69% of the decline in the incarcerated population was due to the drop in the number of persons incarcerated in state or federal prisons (down 35,500). Reading this article about the correctional population has showed me that there is a lot less people incarcerated than I thought. I can honestly say that I looked at social media and new media and thought “wow, prisons must be very full” and I thought this because of how many “bad people” they show on media. Between reading these types of articles and watching how the media portrays the corrections industry are two different things and it amazes me on how you can make something look completely different than what it should be. Now that I see the correctional population and the community supervised has declined it makes me now realize that you cannot base things off the media. You must do the research yourself. ~Bears456 and Latte456
This blog taught me a lot of information that I didn't already know about corrections and the population during this particular year. One thing that I thought was very interesting to me was that community supervision and the incarceration populations declined to the lowest levels in more than a decade. This article states that from the year 2014 to the year 2015 the US correctional population declined by more than 1.7 percent. I would think that the United States would look more to put nonviolent inmates and petty offenders into correctional facilities to correct their behavior instead of putting them behind bars for less than a year. According to the chart, the total correctional population has been decreasing since 2008. Another bit of information that I wasn't aware of was decline rate of persons supervised by U.S adult correctional systems. From the year 2005 to 2015 the rate per 100,000 people has been at steady decrease going from 1 in 32 adults under supervision to 1 in 37 adults under supervision. The next piece of information that took me by surprise was the number in prison or local jail per 100,000 U.S adult residents. From the year 2006 the United States has gone from 1,000 residents per 100,000 to 870 per 100,000 residents. With the United States being tough on crime and the war on drugs I would think that these numbers would only increase over time, but according to this article, this is not true. Next what I thought was interesting in this article was the number of offenders with multiple correctional statues at yearend from 2000-2015. From 2000 this total number of prisoners has risen from 112,500 to 174,000 in a way this this stat doesn't surprise since the recidivism rate is also high. What also caught my eye from this table is that prisoner held in local jail and as well state or federal prisons have risen by the thousands in this fifteen-year span which I thought was a gradual increase. From the appendix table 1, the estimated number and rate of person supervised by U.S adult correctional systems this table really caught my eye. I was surprised that there were only 328,500 people under the federal supervision. I thought that there would be more people in this category since the federal side is mainly based on drugs and drug offenses. A number that really jumped out at me from this chart is the number of people on probation or parole for the United States as a whole was 4,650,900 people I honestly thought that this number would be higher than that, but I'm not surprised why this number is where it's at. Another shocking stat from this chart is the total correctional population for the state of Vermont. According to this chart, Vermont had only 8,000 people in the correctional population at the end of 2015. NightTrain456 Rugby_456
Part 1 Along with the article on the number and statistics of people who were in local and city jails in 2014, this article on the populations in the correctional system in 2014 was also very engrossing at parts. At the end of the year, in 2015, there was a whopping estimated 6,741,400 people supervised by the United States adult correctional systems. This does not just account for people in jail or prison but also offenders who are on probation or individuals who served time but now are on parole. This number seems incredibly high but that number is in fact a decrease of approximately 115,600 people at the end of 2014. While the news and media try to make it seem that the number of people being thrown in jails and prisons are increasing quickly and drastically, this isn’t the truth though. Of course, there are jails and prisons that are over populated and it is a huge issue, it does not mean that all facilities are overcrowded. The number of people who have offended, have been convicted, and are now under some form of supervision by the United States Adult Correctional System has been on a downward slip over the past number of years. One of the highlighted points shown in this article was the fact that, in 2015, roughly one in every thirty seven adults in the United States were under some form correctional supervision. I find this point very fascinating because it’s odd to think that for every thirty seven people, two years ago, one of them would be under some form of supervision, this rate was the lowest rate in twenty one years. This article also touched on how the community supervision dropped to the lowest it’s been since the year 2000 in 2015. The numbers have been decreasing over the years and hit the lowest point in 15 years at a total of 4,650,900 people under community supervision, in 2,000 the total number was clocked at 4,564,900. The reason 2015 was the lowest number of individuals under community supervision was due to a drop in the number of offenders who were on probation. There was a drop of about two percent, according to the article. One of the more interesting points in this article was how the population of individuals who were incarcerated dropped to the lowest levels in the U.S. since 2004. The numbers in 2004 were 2,136,600 and it was 2,173,800 people incarcerated figured in 2015. There are numerous reasons for these large decreases in the population of individuals who are serving time under the correctional system but I suspect that the main reason for these drops in numbers is due to the loosening up of drug charges. For a while the criminal justice system has been trying to ease up on how many people are thrown away for petty drug charges. Being able to see the way that the numbers involving how many people are under correctional supervision is an interesting topic to read about. Reading this article was a good way to put into perspective just how common people under correctional supervision in the United States is. Xielxs456 and Savage456
Part 2 This article also dealt with people who’s in the local and city jails. It shows different numbers and statistics of the correctional population from the years of 2000-2015. In the beginning of the article it talks about how at year end of 2015, there were an estimated of 6,741,000 people who were supervised by the U.S adult correctional system and at the year end of 2014 it decreased of about 115,600 people. That number was slightly high due to how low it was in the year of 2014. According to the article that was the first time since 2002 that the correctional population fell below 6.8 million. This is very shocking because why is the number so high for the correctional populations. Another thing is which I think is pretty amusing is that the decrease of changed from a three year trend of stable annual rate decline of about 0.6% between 2012 to 2014. Furthermore, at the end of 2015 the correctional supervision for adults were 1 and 37, but that was the lowest rate since 1994 it was about 1 and 38 adults which is about 1.6 million fewer persons that was under correctional supervision. In 2015 there were a slightly drop due to probation population and it was a 1.5 parole population increase. According to the article, the community supervision and incarcerated populations declined to lowest levels in more than a decade. It stated “from 2014( 6,856,900) to 2015(6,741,400), the U.S correctional population declined by 1.7% and this downward trend began in 2008”. More in depth the article talked about how people are either supervised in the community or either on probation or parole continue to account for the U.S correctional population in 2015. Other statements that were compelling is that about 7 in 10 persons under the correctional supervision were supervised in the community at the year end of 2015 and it was compared to 3 in 10 persons incarcerated in state or federal prisons or local jails. Overall, this article was very shocking due to the high numbers of people under the U.S correctional supervision. It also stated some important statistics to show you the differences of the population throughout the years. It also talked about the correctional population on how it decreased in the year of 2015 in the local jails or the federal and state prisons. Savage456 and Xielxs456
Part 1: After reading these last two articles, the one about jail inmates and now this one about corrections, I realize how much of an effect the media has on us as people and how we perceive different things. For example due to the media I thought there were way more people being incarcerated and being incarcerated for way more serious of crimes but that just shows how easily influenced we are by the media and how much of an affect it has on society. The largest decline in the article was community supervision which was a surprise me. Community supervision declined 1.7 percent and is still declining. After being in class I thought probation and parole would be the more popular option especially with marijuana becoming more common and actually becoming legal in some states. I believe that probation and parole in a lot of situations is the better option for offenders especially offenders of nonviolent crimes. Between the years of 2007 and 2015 probation decreased by 84% which equaled out to being 503,200 people. After 2015 the article stated and called it the biggest decline in incarceration rates since 2009. Throughout the years of 2009 and 2015 the biggest rise in incarceration rates was during 2007 but ever since then the rates have declined and are still declining today in 2017. I believe that state populations play a huge role on incarceration rates. Due to the War on Crime I thought this entire article was going to be large numbers talking about how many people are being locked up but after reading I realize truly the rates are going down but like I stated earlier due to the media we do not realize that because the media only tells us the bad about jails and prisons therefore we believe they are not somewhat improving.In 2000 the number of prisoners had risen from 112,500 to 174,000. Also while looking at this table something else that caught my eye from this table is that prisoner held in local jail and as well state or federal prisons have risen by the thousands. I did not realize either how high the recidivism rate was during this time. Overall after reading both articles I learned that rates are actually slowly declining. -Thunder456_ & swaggyy456
Part 1: The Correction population has decreased significantly through the years. At the end of 2015 there were approximately 6,741,400 people that were under supervision in the corrections system. This is quite a bit less than the approximate number of incarcerated people at the year end of 2014. In fact, it is 115,600 fewer people incarcerated. 1.7 was the largest decline in the corrections system in prisoners since 2010. A three-year decline was noticed for a steady amount on prisoners between the years of 2012 and 2014. The Bureau of justice statistics says, “about one in thirty-seven adults in the U.S. was under some form of correctional supervision at the end of 2015.” This statistic says that those numbers are was the lowest rate that was observed since 1994. In 1994 there was approximately one in thirty-eight adults under correctional supervision in the whole nation. Community supervision declined the largest amount in over a decade. Community supervision declined 1.7 percent and continues to fall. Most of the people are on probation or parole. This is because there was a reduction of community supervision, also an increase of population. At the end of 2015 it was observed that this is was the biggest decline in the incarcerated people since the first decrease of the year 2009. There was a peak of imprisoned people in 2007, but the number has significantly declined through the years and continues to decline. i think these numbers are accurate with the populations, but with our states populations continuing to drop through the years I don’t think that these numbers could be accurate. Due to the fact that our population in Illinois was probably much higher in the lower years such as 2000-2010, than it is now 2011-2017, I don’t think that the Bureau can be as accurate as they could be with people that are moving out of Illinois. The number of people on probation also dropped in the year I think this is because of the people moving out of Illinois. Criminals that are running from the corrections system are also some of the ones that are moving out of state. Some of these people are running but in reality, what they don’t know is that some of the offences could be as small as people just being put on probation or parole. As more of the criminals are moving out of state this causes our population to go down witch then makes it harder to catch the offenders and keep the prison system numbers accurate. Prisoners represent slightly less than a quarters of the United States correctional population in 2007. This is the years that we did not have people moving out of our state so fast. For an eight-year period, jail inmate remained the smallest amount of the correctional population. Due to the decrease in 2015 of probation, prisons, and local jail populations this led to an overall decrease in the United States correction population. Due to this decrease it accounted for 68 percent of the total decline of probationers for the corrections system. – Thunder456_ & swaggyy456
The incarcerated population in 2015 fell to the lowest levels since 2004. This was the first time since 2002 that the correctional population fell below 6.8 million with the largest decline of 1.7 percent during 2015 since 2010. In 2015, the decline in the incarcerated population resulted from the drop in the prison population. The decrease in the number of persons under correctional supervision in 2015 was due to a reduction in both the community supervision and incarcerated populations. Any person that was under community supervision was accounted for when it came to the U.S. correctional population. The decrease in the community supervision during 2015 accounted for more than half of the decline in the correctional population. The downward trend began in 2008 where people that were supervised in the community that were either on probation or parole continued to account for population in 2015. Almost every 7 in 10 people under correctional supervision were supervised in the community in 2015 compared to 3 in 10 incarcerated in state or federal prison/jails. In 2000 the total correctional population was 6,467,800 with 4,564,900 being on community supervision and 1,945,400 incarcerated. In 2007 the numbers jumped to 7,339,600 for total correctional population with 5,119,00 being on community supervision and 2,296,400 being incarcerated. Finally the numbers started drop towards 2014 where the data supplied the info that only 6,856,900 people were in total correctional population with 4,713,200 were on community supervision and 2,225,100 were incarcerated. After 2007, the correctional population started to decline however the composition of the population remained stable due to the decreasing size of the population during that time frame. During an 8 year period, prisoners represented less than a quarter of the correctional population in 2007 they represented a 22 percent and 2015 represented 23 percent. Parolees represented 11 percent and in 2015 represented 13 perecent. Decreases in the probation even went down 78,700, prison went down 35,500 and local jails even went down 16,300 in population leading to a decline that was well needed. The decrease in the probation population accounted for 68 percent of the total decline in the correctional population as probationers represented the largest share of offenders under correctional supervision. The parole population was up 12,800 slightly offsetting the overall decline. Between 2007 and 2015 the correctional population declined by 598,300 people. The number of people on probation fell by 503,200 representing 84 percent of the total decrease in the correctional population in 2007 and 2015. While prisons at 12 percent and jails at 9 percent in populations, it also declined during the 8 year period contributing to the population that was less than a quarter combined. The only increase that was seen in the correctional system was that the parole population was up 44,400 people between the years of 2007 and 2015. unknownzeeha456
After reading and analyzing this report by U.S. Department of Justice, I learned that at the year end of 2015, there are an estimated 6,741,400 persons were under the supervision of U.S. adult correctional system. Which is about 115,600 fewer persons compared to yearend 2014. Since 2002, it was the first time that the correctional population went down below 6.8 million. During 2015, the population declined by 1.7 percent which was the largest decline since 2010. About 1 in 37 adults in United States was under some form of correctional supervision at the end of 2015. It was the lowest rate observed since 1994 where about 1 in 38 adults were under correctional supervision in the nation. There are 3,789,800 persons who are on probation and 870,500 on parole who are supervised in the community. About 7 to 10 person under correctional supervision were supervised in the community at yearend 2015 compared to 3 in 10 incarcerated in state or federal prisons (1,526,800) or local jails (728,200). The decrease in the number of person under correctional supervision in 2015 was due to reduction in both community supervision and incarcerated population. There are an estimated 2,173,800 persons at yearend 2015 under the jurisdiction of state or federal prisons or in the custody of local jails in the United States which down about 51,300 persons compared to yearend 2014. It was the largest decline in incarcerated population since it first decreased in 2009. The number of persons incarcerated in state or federal prisons or local jails fell to the lowest level observed since 2004 with 2,136,600 who are incarcerated. The U.S. prison decrease in population by 2.3 percent and local jail by 2.2 percent that contributed to incarcerated population during 2015. The reason of decrease was due to the drop in the number of persons incarcerated in state or federal prisons. On the other hand, the Federal Bureau of Prisons was accounted for 40 percent of the decrease in the U.S prison population. At the yearend of 2015 there are 1,526,800 decreases in U.S prison population same level as similar to 2005 1,525,900. The U.S correctional population declined annually through 2015. However, the population remained stable despite the decreasing size of the population during that time. Probationers accounted for the majority of offenders under correctional supervision between 2007 and 2015. In 2007, 11 percent of parolees and 13 percent in 2015 and jail inmates (11 percent for both 2005 and 2015) remained the smallest chares of the correctional population during the 8-year period. During this time, the U.S correctional population declined by 598,300 persons. In the United States, the persons in probation fell by 503,200 which represent 84 percent decrease in correctional population between 2007 and 2015. By yearend 2015, the correctional supervision rate dropped to the lowest rate since 1994 which is 2,650 per 100,000, when about 1.6 million fewer persons were supervised by U.S. adult correctional system. By yearend 2015, 870 persons per 100,000 U.S adult residents were under the jurisdiction of state or federal prisons or in the custody of local jails. The rate of incarceration has been down since 2009 which is 980 per 100,000 and by end of year 2015, the incarceration rate was dropped to the same level as 1997 with 870 per 100,000. -M.Scott456
Reading that at the end of 2015 over 6.7 millions people were under some sort of supervision is absurd because we are showing that instead of getting some of these people that have drug or alcohol problems help we are just putting them into the criminal justice system whether that be under probation or in jails and prisons. Even though this is lower than the previous years and the first time this number has dropped below 6.8 million in thirteen years is crazy. We need to go back to before we were locking people up for drug crimes that may not have been very serious amounts. We need to send these people to rehab because if we lock them up or put them under probation all they are going to do is just keep reoffending until they can get some actual help. The ones we need to lock up are the serious offenders and those who are dealing the drugs to those who can not stop. Seeing that about one in every thirty-seven adults are under some sort of supervision is mind-boggling. We need to be helping and giving these people more opportunities at rehab, so they will be able to get a job once they are released. Seeing table 1 and recognizing that most of the people who are in the corrections system population are under probation is a little relieving, because this shows that we are not directly locking people up we are giving them some sort of opportunity to turn their lives around and to try and get back on their feet. Some of these people may have been drunk and done a stupid mistake, which if we lock them up for a year is not going to help anything we need to give them the opportunity for probation and make them go to some sort of rehab. Seeing that over the last eight years we have been decreasing all of our correction populations is good, because we all have done some sort of stupid thing that was illegal we just never got caught which most of these people will only be doing one thing then they will probably never reoffend again. Looking at table 2 even though we are decreasing the overall correction population the percent of those who are going to jail rather than getting probation is higher than what it was back in 2007. Seeing that it took over twenty years for our country have its lowest supervision rate is crazy, because most of the time in between these years were when we were tough on drugs and most of these are because of the heroin epidemic.
ReplyDeleteIllini456
After Reading this report it looks like we might be on the mend for our correctional system having finally dropped to a rate that hasn't been seen for almost 25 years. Yes, 6,741,000 is still an enormous amount but the data shows that we have had a somewhat steady drop in the number of people in the correctional systems. What's great as well is that it seems like the drops in numbers are happening in every area of the correction system. There was the 2.3 percent drop in incarceration populations and the 1.3 percent decrease in community supervision programs. What I am curious about is the reason for the steady decline in the incarcerated and community supervision populations. If I had to guess it could be the changes we have been having with our drug laws and minor non violent offences. People in the correctional system have started to realize that the way we go about punishing criminals is not the most effective way of doings things and thus are changing to better improve our incarceration levels. Anyways while we still have a long way to go to lowering the correctional populations I think the system as a whole is improving.
CoffeeAddict456
As previously stated, it’s very interesting to see the correlation between presidential and congressional policy, and the correctional population of the United States. Between the years of 2000 and 2008 the prison population steadily increased, capping out at just over seven million people incarcerated within both federal and state prison systems. The political orientation of our government during this time was, of course, republican. The policies imposed by President George W. Bush and his republican-controlled congress sympathized with policy of the War on Drugs imposed by Nixon in 1971. It makes sense then, that this increase was accounted for by drug offenders. When President Obama took office in 2009, the prisoner population fell accordingly and steadily until the end of this report. Obama was well-known for his policy on drugs, which was opposed the policy imposed by Bush. President Obama and his democrat-controlled congress encouraged the decriminalization and rehabilitation of drug offenses and drug offenders, respectively. I believe that this is what was responsible for the mountain-shaped graph on this report. What’s also interesting is the fact that in 2015, the decrease in the probation population accounted for 68% of the total decline within the correctional population. This can mean a few things. It can mean that we’re using probation less and opting to send offenders to prison rather than probation. This isn’t true, because we would see an increase in the incarcerated population between 2014 and 2015, which isn’t present. In fact, the incarcerated population dropped by 51,300 people within that period. The second possible occurrence is that probation is actually succeeding in reducing recidivism better than it previously was. This is plausible, seeing as it matches up with the provided statistics. The third option, which is also plausible, is that we aren’t criminalizing the same crimes that we were in 2014 and, therefore, we have less offences taking place. This is also plausible, what with the decriminalization of marijuana in multiple states and municipalities across the country. This appears to be a good thing, regardless. The parole population also increased by 12,800 during this time, which is also very interesting. It could imply that the corrections system is orienting more towards the use of rehabilitation rather than incarceration. -TheTurk456
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After just reading the first line I was shocked that just in 2015 an estimated 6,741,400 people were under the supervision of the U.S. adult correctional systems. This number may seem huge and it is but it is actually 115,000 fewer people that the following year. This is also the first time since 2002 that the correctional population fell below 6.8 million people. These number patterns of going up and down constantly are very similar to those of the jail population they started low then rose sharply and then bounced up and down till the present years. Over the years of 2007 to 2015 the amount of people in probation decreased much more than that of the prison population. Probation population went down by nearly 600,000 and the prison population decreased but 70,000 which isn’t very much but is still more than the 44,000 from parole. Another thing that shocked me was on table 5 from 2000 to 2004 they didn’t have any statistics for people on parole in local jails, state or federal prison. This shocked me because there had to be people on parole in those years they couldn’t have just had no one then jumped to 18,000 people in on year so where did the statistics go from there? Why is it that every statistic goes up super high then falls very far but then rises again? Why can we not seem to figure out what is going on in our prisons and jails to make it so there is not so many people in probation or on parole? The stats show that of the 6.7 million of the correctional population 4.6 million are on probation or parole. These numbers just show we have a serious issue with locking people up and putting them on probation or parole. There needs to be a new statistic that shows how many people ended up not going back to jail or prison because of their probation or parole sentences.
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In 2015 the correctional population experienced the same result like in 2002 there was under 6.8 million people incarcerated which still to this day is the lowest numbers we have ever had in the system. It led to supervision decrease because it has never been that low. It surprises me that numbers have dropped that low do to the population because there has been a large amount of people since 2000 to know and for it to be just now dropping low is blowing my mind i figured it would have sky rocketed by now. But the reason why it was so low was because they reduce the supervision which people wouldn't get caught if there isn't anyone to catch them because no parole officer they will do whatever it takes to break the law again. These number constantly go up and down because of the jail populations . That also went down because probation had a fall because of the supervision which is a chain cycle between all three a huge chain effect. Once one goes lower then they all get effected. What i dont understand is when one goes down a percent in a couple years it either sky rockets or it will be a record low that none of these years were very steady with each other. It should always be a steady flow in statistics but it goes down a couple thousands or millions. These numbers definetly show a flaw in the system because we are either not locking up enough people or we are locking up too many people for petty crimes which are not serious at all. This is a huge comparison to now in 2017 compared to 2015 numbers have grown so large compared to 2015 because so many people are being ticketed for small crimes and locking them up for years which is a major flaw in the system.
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The incarcerated population in 2015 fell to the lowest since 2004 which doesn't surprise me because the drop in community supervision was the effect of the population going down so rapidly by 2% it dropped which doesn't seem like a lot but if you think about it the 2% is 115,600 people being dropped. But it is a lot of people to be dropped because in 2015 1 in 37 adults was under some type of supervision which has been the lowest since 1994 that is a huge change in statistics. The population drop was also from the drop in prison population which dropped almost 40,000 people in the prison population. It went from a hug spike in 2007 to a very low drop in 2015 within 8 years it dropped very low with not even a steady cost to 2015 it was up and down. The flaw in the system is that people being locked up in 2017 compared to 2015 is being locked up for small amounts of weed or minor crimes and people that abuse or rape don't have as a long of sentence the system really needs to change that. In order for us to have healthy numbers each year is to have treatment when they get out because they don't have anything so they go right back to drugs and stealing which the cycle ends at prison. It is proven that inmates who get released do better after they have attended treatment centers for rehabilitation centers to show them the way so they don't end up back in prison and our numbers don't rise.
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The first thing that shocked us was that in 2015 there was an estimated 6.741,400 people who were under supervision of the correctional system, but that is about 115,600 fewer than 2014. The population declined 1.7 percent in 2015. The prison population, according to figure 1 has never been constant; it always seems to go up and down. It was due to a reduction in the community supervision and incarcerated populations. The year-to-year change in confined jail population among respondents to both the 2014 and 2015 DCRP was computed within the state. This was the first time that the correctional system had fell under 6.8 million people since 2002. It is kind of crazy that it was the first time falling under 6.8 million people. It is surprising to think that, that many people are behind bars. I knew there was a lot but for it to be that big of a number is shocking to me, but then I think about all the people who are locked away that could be innocent or even in for petty crimes. This surprised me because of how much crime is currently talked about and how much the media talks about. You would think that crime has went up in some type of way, but, it has gone down. This only should tell someone that the media may exaggerate things just for views. The correctional system is not the only things the only thing they exaggerate, they do every topic that comes across them to be put on the air. The decrease of the numbers was due to both the community supervision and corrections supervision. Community supervision means such as probation or parole. The decrease in the community supervision population during the 2015 accounted for more than half of the correctional population. Which is why the correctional population declined. The number of people that was on community supervision declined from 62,300,000 to 4,650,900. The estimated number of males and females with dual community supervision statuses was then subtracted from the number of males under correctional supervision by jurisdiction. This same method was used to adjust the number of females under correctional supervision. This is a dramatic change and shows just how many people have gotten off probation or parole. Since 2007 the annual average supervision decreased by 1.2%. It is great to see that most populations are decreasing, but I tend to think that they would have an even larger percentage if all correctional systems had the appropriate programs for everyone.
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You would think because of how much how popular probation is more people would be on it. But they aren't this is the lowest they have seen people under community supervision since 2007. I think the prisoner that are locked up for marijuana should be put on probation or just get fined for it, not lock them away for years. Although prisons may be the only option for some people it may not be for a lot of people. Between 2007 and 2015 the population declined by 598,300 persons. Even the number of people on probation decreased by 84 percent and 503,200 people. The parole population was the only one to increase up to 44,000. After peaking at 3,210 offenders per 100,000 U.S. adult residents in 2007, the correctional supervision rate trended downward, falling to a low of 2,710 per 100,000 by yearend 2015. Probation and parole agencies may not always be notified immediately of new arrests, jail admissions, or prison admissions. Absconders included in a probation or parole agency’s population in one jurisdiction may be incarcerated in another jurisdiction. To estimate the number of males and females on parole who were also on probation in 2014 and 2015, the distribution of the parole population by sex within the reference year was applied to the number of parolees on probation in each jurisdiction. Declines in both the U.S. prison (down 2.3%) and local jail (down 2.2%) populations contributed to the decrease in the incarcerated population during 2015. However, 69% of the decline in the incarcerated population was due to the drop in the number of persons incarcerated in state or federal prisons (down 35,500). Reading this article about the correctional population has showed me that there is a lot less people incarcerated than I thought. I can honestly say that I looked at social media and new media and thought “wow, prisons must be very full” and I thought this because of how many “bad people” they show on media. Between reading these types of articles and watching how the media portrays the corrections industry are two different things and it amazes me on how you can make something look completely different than what it should be. Now that I see the correctional population and the community supervised has declined it makes me now realize that you cannot base things off the media. You must do the research yourself.
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This blog taught me a lot of information that I didn't already know about corrections and the population during this particular year. One thing that I thought was very interesting to me was that community supervision and the incarceration populations declined to the lowest levels in more than a decade. This article states that from the year 2014 to the year 2015 the US correctional population declined by more than 1.7 percent. I would think that the United States would look more to put nonviolent inmates and petty offenders into correctional facilities to correct their behavior instead of putting them behind bars for less than a year. According to the chart, the total correctional population has been decreasing since 2008. Another bit of information that I wasn't aware of was decline rate of persons supervised by U.S adult correctional systems. From the year 2005 to 2015 the rate per 100,000 people has been at steady decrease going from 1 in 32 adults under supervision to 1 in 37 adults under supervision. The next piece of information that took me by surprise was the number in prison or local jail per 100,000 U.S adult residents. From the year 2006 the United States has gone from 1,000 residents per 100,000 to 870 per 100,000 residents. With the United States being tough on crime and the war on drugs I would think that these numbers would only increase over time, but according to this article, this is not true. Next what I thought was interesting in this article was the number of offenders with multiple correctional statues at yearend from 2000-2015. From 2000 this total number of prisoners has risen from 112,500 to 174,000 in a way this this stat doesn't surprise since the recidivism rate is also high. What also caught my eye from this table is that prisoner held in local jail and as well state or federal prisons have risen by the thousands in this fifteen-year span which I thought was a gradual increase. From the appendix table 1, the estimated number and rate of person supervised by U.S adult correctional systems this table really caught my eye. I was surprised that there were only 328,500 people under the federal supervision. I thought that there would be more people in this category since the federal side is mainly based on drugs and drug offenses. A number that really jumped out at me from this chart is the number of people on probation or parole for the United States as a whole was 4,650,900 people I honestly thought that this number would be higher than that, but I'm not surprised why this number is where it's at. Another shocking stat from this chart is the total correctional population for the state of Vermont. According to this chart, Vermont had only 8,000 people in the correctional population at the end of 2015. NightTrain456 Rugby_456
ReplyDeletePart 1 Along with the article on the number and statistics of people who were in local and city jails in 2014, this article on the populations in the correctional system in 2014 was also very engrossing at parts. At the end of the year, in 2015, there was a whopping estimated 6,741,400 people supervised by the United States adult correctional systems. This does not just account for people in jail or prison but also offenders who are on probation or individuals who served time but now are on parole. This number seems incredibly high but that number is in fact a decrease of approximately 115,600 people at the end of 2014. While the news and media try to make it seem that the number of people being thrown in jails and prisons are increasing quickly and drastically, this isn’t the truth though. Of course, there are jails and prisons that are over populated and it is a huge issue, it does not mean that all facilities are overcrowded. The number of people who have offended, have been convicted, and are now under some form of supervision by the United States Adult Correctional System has been on a downward slip over the past number of years. One of the highlighted points shown in this article was the fact that, in 2015, roughly one in every thirty seven adults in the United States were under some form correctional supervision. I find this point very fascinating because it’s odd to think that for every thirty seven people, two years ago, one of them would be under some form of supervision, this rate was the lowest rate in twenty one years. This article also touched on how the community supervision dropped to the lowest it’s been since the year 2000 in 2015. The numbers have been decreasing over the years and hit the lowest point in 15 years at a total of 4,650,900 people under community supervision, in 2,000 the total number was clocked at 4,564,900. The reason 2015 was the lowest number of individuals under community supervision was due to a drop in the number of offenders who were on probation. There was a drop of about two percent, according to the article. One of the more interesting points in this article was how the population of individuals who were incarcerated dropped to the lowest levels in the U.S. since 2004. The numbers in 2004 were 2,136,600 and it was 2,173,800 people incarcerated figured in 2015. There are numerous reasons for these large decreases in the population of individuals who are serving time under the correctional system but I suspect that the main reason for these drops in numbers is due to the loosening up of drug charges. For a while the criminal justice system has been trying to ease up on how many people are thrown away for petty drug charges. Being able to see the way that the numbers involving how many people are under correctional supervision is an interesting topic to read about. Reading this article was a good way to put into perspective just how common people under correctional supervision in the United States is.
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Part 2 This article also dealt with people who’s in the local and city jails. It shows different numbers and statistics of the correctional population from the years of 2000-2015. In the beginning of the article it talks about how at year end of 2015, there were an estimated of 6,741,000 people who were supervised by the U.S adult correctional system and at the year end of 2014 it decreased of about 115,600 people. That number was slightly high due to how low it was in the year of 2014. According to the article that was the first time since 2002 that the correctional population fell below 6.8 million. This is very shocking because why is the number so high for the correctional populations. Another thing is which I think is pretty amusing is that the decrease of changed from a three year trend of stable annual rate decline of about 0.6% between 2012 to 2014. Furthermore, at the end of 2015 the correctional supervision for adults were 1 and 37, but that was the lowest rate since 1994 it was about 1 and 38 adults which is about 1.6 million fewer persons that was under correctional supervision. In 2015 there were a slightly drop due to probation population and it was a 1.5 parole population increase. According to the article, the community supervision and incarcerated populations declined to lowest levels in more than a decade. It stated “from 2014( 6,856,900) to 2015(6,741,400), the U.S correctional population declined by 1.7% and this downward trend began in 2008”. More in depth the article talked about how people are either supervised in the community or either on probation or parole continue to account for the U.S correctional population in 2015. Other statements that were compelling is that about 7 in 10 persons under the correctional supervision were supervised in the community at the year end of 2015 and it was compared to 3 in 10 persons incarcerated in state or federal prisons or local jails. Overall, this article was very shocking due to the high numbers of people under the U.S correctional supervision. It also stated some important statistics to show you the differences of the population throughout the years. It also talked about the correctional population on how it decreased in the year of 2015 in the local jails or the federal and state prisons. Savage456 and Xielxs456
DeletePart 1: After reading these last two articles, the one about jail inmates and now this one about corrections, I realize how much of an effect the media has on us as people and how we perceive different things. For example due to the media I thought there were way more people being incarcerated and being incarcerated for way more serious of crimes but that just shows how easily influenced we are by the media and how much of an affect it has on society. The largest decline in the article was community supervision which was a surprise me. Community supervision declined 1.7 percent and is still declining. After being in class I thought probation and parole would be the more popular option especially with marijuana becoming more common and actually becoming legal in some states. I believe that probation and parole in a lot of situations is the better option for offenders especially offenders of nonviolent crimes. Between the years of 2007 and 2015 probation decreased by 84% which equaled out to being 503,200 people. After 2015 the article stated and called it the biggest decline in incarceration rates since 2009. Throughout the years of 2009 and 2015 the biggest rise in incarceration rates was during 2007 but ever since then the rates have declined and are still declining today in 2017. I believe that state populations play a huge role on incarceration rates. Due to the War on Crime I thought this entire article was going to be large numbers talking about how many people are being locked up but after reading I realize truly the rates are going down but like I stated earlier due to the media we do not realize that because the media only tells us the bad about jails and prisons therefore we believe they are not somewhat improving.In 2000 the number of prisoners had risen from 112,500 to 174,000. Also while looking at this table something else that caught my eye from this table is that prisoner held in local jail and as well state or federal prisons have risen by the thousands. I did not realize either how high the recidivism rate was during this time. Overall after reading both articles I learned that rates are actually slowly declining. -Thunder456_ & swaggyy456
ReplyDeletePart 1: The Correction population has decreased significantly through the years. At the end of 2015 there were approximately 6,741,400 people that were under supervision in the corrections system. This is quite a bit less than the approximate number of incarcerated people at the year end of 2014. In fact, it is 115,600 fewer people incarcerated. 1.7 was the largest decline in the corrections system in prisoners since 2010. A three-year decline was noticed for a steady amount on prisoners between the years of 2012 and 2014. The Bureau of justice statistics says, “about one in thirty-seven adults in the U.S. was under some form of correctional supervision at the end of 2015.” This statistic says that those numbers are was the lowest rate that was observed since 1994. In 1994 there was approximately one in thirty-eight adults under correctional supervision in the whole nation. Community supervision declined the largest amount in over a decade. Community supervision declined 1.7 percent and continues to fall. Most of the people are on probation or parole. This is because there was a reduction of community supervision, also an increase of population. At the end of 2015 it was observed that this is was the biggest decline in the incarcerated people since the first decrease of the year 2009. There was a peak of imprisoned people in 2007, but the number has significantly declined through the years and continues to decline. i think these numbers are accurate with the populations, but with our states populations continuing to drop through the years I don’t think that these numbers could be accurate. Due to the fact that our population in Illinois was probably much higher in the lower years such as 2000-2010, than it is now 2011-2017, I don’t think that the Bureau can be as accurate as they could be with people that are moving out of Illinois. The number of people on probation also dropped in the year I think this is because of the people moving out of Illinois. Criminals that are running from the corrections system are also some of the ones that are moving out of state. Some of these people are running but in reality, what they don’t know is that some of the offences could be as small as people just being put on probation or parole. As more of the criminals are moving out of state this causes our population to go down witch then makes it harder to catch the offenders and keep the prison system numbers accurate. Prisoners represent slightly less than a quarters of the United States correctional population in 2007. This is the years that we did not have people moving out of our state so fast. For an eight-year period, jail inmate remained the smallest amount of the correctional population. Due to the decrease in 2015 of probation, prisons, and local jail populations this led to an overall decrease in the United States correction population. Due to this decrease it accounted for 68 percent of the total decline of probationers for the corrections system. – Thunder456_ & swaggyy456
DeleteThe incarcerated population in 2015 fell to the lowest levels since 2004. This was the first time since 2002 that the correctional population fell below 6.8 million with the largest decline of 1.7 percent during 2015 since 2010. In 2015, the decline in the incarcerated population resulted from the drop in the prison population. The decrease in the number of persons under correctional supervision in 2015 was due to a reduction in both the community supervision and incarcerated populations. Any person that was under community supervision was accounted for when it came to the U.S. correctional population. The decrease in the community supervision during 2015 accounted for more than half of the decline in the correctional population. The downward trend began in 2008 where people that were supervised in the community that were either on probation or parole continued to account for population in 2015. Almost every 7 in 10 people under correctional supervision were supervised in the community in 2015 compared to 3 in 10 incarcerated in state or federal prison/jails. In 2000 the total correctional population was 6,467,800 with 4,564,900 being on community supervision and 1,945,400 incarcerated. In 2007 the numbers jumped to 7,339,600 for total correctional population with 5,119,00 being on community supervision and 2,296,400 being incarcerated. Finally the numbers started drop towards 2014 where the data supplied the info that only 6,856,900 people were in total correctional population with 4,713,200 were on community supervision and 2,225,100 were incarcerated. After 2007, the correctional population started to decline however the composition of the population remained stable due to the decreasing size of the population during that time frame. During an 8 year period, prisoners represented less than a quarter of the correctional population in 2007 they represented a 22 percent and 2015 represented 23 percent. Parolees represented 11 percent and in 2015 represented 13 perecent. Decreases in the probation even went down 78,700, prison went down 35,500 and local jails even went down 16,300 in population leading to a decline that was well needed. The decrease in the probation population accounted for 68 percent of the total decline in the correctional population as probationers represented the largest share of offenders under correctional supervision. The parole population was up 12,800 slightly offsetting the overall decline. Between 2007 and 2015 the correctional population declined by 598,300 people. The number of people on probation fell by 503,200 representing 84 percent of the total decrease in the correctional population in 2007 and 2015. While prisons at 12 percent and jails at 9 percent in populations, it also declined during the 8 year period contributing to the population that was less than a quarter combined. The only increase that was seen in the correctional system was that the parole population was up 44,400 people between the years of 2007 and 2015.
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After reading and analyzing this report by U.S. Department of Justice, I learned that at the year end of 2015, there are an estimated 6,741,400 persons were under the supervision of U.S. adult correctional system. Which is about 115,600 fewer persons compared to yearend 2014. Since 2002, it was the first time that the correctional population went down below 6.8 million. During 2015, the population declined by 1.7 percent which was the largest decline since 2010. About 1 in 37 adults in United States was under some form of correctional supervision at the end of 2015. It was the lowest rate observed since 1994 where about 1 in 38 adults were under correctional supervision in the nation. There are 3,789,800 persons who are on probation and 870,500 on parole who are supervised in the community. About 7 to 10 person under correctional supervision were supervised in the community at yearend 2015 compared to 3 in 10 incarcerated in state or federal prisons (1,526,800) or local jails (728,200). The decrease in the number of person under correctional supervision in 2015 was due to reduction in both community supervision and incarcerated population. There are an estimated 2,173,800 persons at yearend 2015 under the jurisdiction of state or federal prisons or in the custody of local jails in the United States which down about 51,300 persons compared to yearend 2014. It was the largest decline in incarcerated population since it first decreased in 2009. The number of persons incarcerated in state or federal prisons or local jails fell to the lowest level observed since 2004 with 2,136,600 who are incarcerated. The U.S. prison decrease in population by 2.3 percent and local jail by 2.2 percent that contributed to incarcerated population during 2015. The reason of decrease was due to the drop in the number of persons incarcerated in state or federal prisons. On the other hand, the Federal Bureau of Prisons was accounted for 40 percent of the decrease in the U.S prison population. At the yearend of 2015 there are 1,526,800 decreases in U.S prison population same level as similar to 2005 1,525,900. The U.S correctional population declined annually through 2015. However, the population remained stable despite the decreasing size of the population during that time. Probationers accounted for the majority of offenders under correctional supervision between 2007 and 2015. In 2007, 11 percent of parolees and 13 percent in 2015 and jail inmates (11 percent for both 2005 and 2015) remained the smallest chares of the correctional population during the 8-year period. During this time, the U.S correctional population declined by 598,300 persons. In the United States, the persons in probation fell by 503,200 which represent 84 percent decrease in correctional population between 2007 and 2015. By yearend 2015, the correctional supervision rate dropped to the lowest rate since 1994 which is 2,650 per 100,000, when about 1.6 million fewer persons were supervised by U.S. adult correctional system. By yearend 2015, 870 persons per 100,000 U.S adult residents were under the jurisdiction of state or federal prisons or in the custody of local jails. The rate of incarceration has been down since 2009 which is 980 per 100,000 and by end of year 2015, the incarceration rate was dropped to the same level as 1997 with 870 per 100,000. -M.Scott456
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