Total Us Prison Population 2024. Challenges raised by high incarceration rates. 3 it allows us to identify important, but often ignored, systems of confinement, from immigration detention to involuntary commitment and youth confinement.
According to a report published by the sentencing project on june 15, 2023, the federal government and 27 states incarcerated 96,370 people in private prisons in 2021, amounting to 8% of america’s prison population. Some 11.5 million people are held in penal institutions throughout the world, according to the latest edition of the world prison population list (wppl), researched and compiled by helen fair and roy walmsley and published on 1 may 2024 by the institute for crime & justice policy research (icpr), at birkbeck, university of london.