How many people are in prison in the US?
1,254,224 people were under the jurisdiction of state or federal prisons at the end of 2023, a rate of 360 per 100,000 residents. Mississippi had the highest state rate, at 652.
Answer current as of
Where this comes from
The figure is the result of a checked-in query, prisons_national.sql, run against the published data. Every number on this page can be traced to it.