Prisoners In 2012: Trends In Admissions and Releases, 1991–2012

In December 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) published a bulletin that describes changes in the types of state prison admissions and releases between 1991 and 2011. Changes over time in the total year end prison population are influenced by changes in the number of state prisoners who make up 87% of the total prison population. The report also discusses how these changes influence sex, race, Hispanic origin, offense, and sentence length distributions. The statistics in the report are based on the BJS' National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) Program, National Corrections Reporting Program, and the . . .