NCJ Number
198272
Date Published
Agencies
BJS
Publication Type
Report
Annotation
This report provides information on facilities, inmates, programs, and staff of State and Federal correctional facilities throughout the Nation, and of private correctional facilities housing State or Federal inmates.
Abstract
Earlier censuses in this series were conducted in 1974, 1979,
1984, 1990, and 1995. Information was collected from prisons;
prison boot camps; reception, diagnosis, and classification
centers; prison forestry camps and farms; prison hospitals;
youthful offender facilities (except in California); facilities
for alcohol and drug treatment; work release and prerelease; and
State-operated local detention facilities in Alaska, Connecticut,
Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Vermont. State-level data are
presented on facility, inmate, and staff characteristics, as well
as facility programs. Comparisons are made, when possible, with
findings from the previous census conducted in 1995. Highlights
include the following: The number of adult correctional
facilities increased 14 percent, from 1,464 at midyear 1995, when
the previous census was conducted, to 1,668 at midyear 2000; in
2000, 264 privately operated facilities were under contract with
State or Federal authorities to house prisoners, an increase of
140 percent. The number of inmates held in these facilities rose
459 percent (from 16,663 inmates in June 1995 to 93,077 in June
2000); a total of 430,033 correctional staff were employed in
State and Federal prisons on June 30, 2000; nearly two-thirds of
these staff (270,317) were correctional officers, responsible for custody/security.
Date Created: May 7, 2018
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