Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Population, 1974-2001

* Of adults in 2001 who had ever served time in prison, nearly as many were black (2,166,000) as were white (2,203,000). An estimated 997,000 were Hispanic.

Total 145,356,000 160,463,000 175,886,630 187,982,751 199,121,734 210,207,901 18-19 8,196,000 8,698,000 7,571,080 7,562,252 7,629,647 8,349,428 20-24 18,757,000 21,096,000 21,14...

Standard life table techniques were used to prepare estimates of the lifetime likelihood of going to prison based on rates of first incarceration during a 12-month period derive...

5. The percent of persons at each specific age who had ever gone to prison (column 7) was then calculated by dividing the number of persons who had ever gone to prison and were...