The United States Department Of Justice Statistics

What is known about the correctional population in the United States over the past decade?

The unfortunate truth of incarceration during the era of mass imprisonment is that African Americans are seven times more likely to be incarcerated than whites. Blacks were more likely than whites to go to prison, at least since the 1920’s (Western 2006: 4). By analyzing the rates of prison admission for blacks and whites at different levels of education, it shows that class inequalities in imprisonment increased as the economic status of low-education men deteriorated. Among young black men, particularly those with little schooling, the level of incarceration was increasingly high. So, why is it that young African American men are incarcerated at much higher rates than their counterparts?

In addition, “Between 2000 and 2005 inmates held in maximum security facilities increased by 16%” (Stephan, 2005).

Prisons where essentially build to accommodate a number of prisoners but over the years it has reach over capacity. Today in the United States there are approximately 193,468 federal inmates that consisting of the Bureau of Prisons Custody, private managed facilities and other facilities. The inmates ages range from 18- 65 with the median age being in their late 30’s. This number is counting both male and female population with male being 93.3% of inmates and females being 6.7%. The number of inmates has steadily increase since 1980 with only having approximately less than 50,000 but today the number has gone more up. Drug offenses are the highest number for inmate’s imprisonment, the next highest offense would be weapons, explosives and arson; immigration and miscellaneous fall next in lines. The number for the other offenses such as robbery, extortion, fraud, bribery, burglary, larceny, property offenses and other offenses are lower. Overcrowding prison has become problematic as the prison population continue to increase leading to proper care and attention for prisoners.

The U.S prison population rose by 700% from 1970 to 2005. A rate far outpacing that of general population growth and crime rates.

"Black men are seven times likely to go to prison than are white men; black women are eight times likely to go than are white women. The lifetime likelihood of incarceration for aggregate numbers requires some getting used to. If today's imprisonment stays stable, nearly one-third of black males

“The Bureau of Justice Statistics report also noted that a Black male 's chances of incarceration were 6.5

64% of women who enter prison without a high school diploma, only 16% receive their GED and only 29% participate in any form of vocational training while they are incarcerated

In 2012, the total number of inmates incarcerated in the state and federal correctional system for was

Of the roughly seven hundred thousand individuals released from prison each year, a large majority are young men with less than a college education (Pager, Western & Sugie, 2009). Of these former

This equals the increase that the state prison system incurred over the past ten years. The state's prisons, however, fall far short of having space to accommodate this projected growth in inmate population.

In the United States the prison population has increased from 300,000 in 1972 to 2.2 million

Since 1982, there has been a 160 increase in inmate population. One can only imagine what that number is today. Most of this increase is attributed to drug violators, such as marijuana dealers and buyers. Sadly, this number will only continue to rise (Potter 1998).

This number comprises local jails with a nominal capacity of 866,782 inmates occupied at 86.4% (June 6, 2010), state prisons with a nominal capacity of approximately 1,140,500 occupied at approximately 115% (December 31, 2010), and federal prisons with a nominal capacity of 126,863 occupied at 136.0% (December 31, 2010). Of this number, 21.5% are pretrial detainees (December 31, 2010), 8.7% are female prisoners (December 31, 2010), 0.4% are juveniles (June 6, 2009), and 5.9% are foreign prisoners (June 30, 2007).[10]

Although the criminal law statistics do not in themselves make it possible to judge the extent of trafficking in human beings, they give some idea of the countries of origin and destination of victims of trafficking. Victims and criminals can be found both in the country of origin, and in countries of transit or destination. Thus, the data of criminal and legal statistics provide information on the place of acquisition and transportation of victims from several independent sources. In most cases, reported by states, the victims were transported across the state border. 32 cases of internal trafficking in persons, that is, the exploitation of citizens in their own country, were reported, although such facts appear to be less likely to be identified