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Prisons in Connecticut

Connecticut held 11,099 people under its correctional authority, an imprisonment rate of 183 per 100,000 residents, at the end of 2023, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

That is rank 40 of 50.

2023

11,099
Prisoners
183
Imprisonment rate
Per 100,000 residents of all ages, as the Bureau computed it.
229
Rate among adults
Per 100,000 residents aged 18 or older.
10,202
Men
897
Women
3,511
Admissions
Sentenced prisoners admitted during the year.

2012 to 2023

12 years, from the 11 editions the Bureau publishes as a machine-readable bundle. Each edition carries its own year and the one before, so every year but the first and last is published twice. Where the two disagree, the later edition is shown, because the Bureau revises rather than restates.

Admissions and releases are blank before 2019. The Bureau published them in one table with two blocks until then, each with a column called “Total”, and this pipeline cannot yet tell one from the other. A blank is the honest answer.

Connecticut's prison population is 36.8% below its 2013 peak; 11,099 in 2023

People under Connecticut's jurisdiction at year end, 2012 to 2023. Jurisdiction rather than custody: the state holds jurisdiction over a prisoner it houses elsewhere, which is the count the Bureau of Justice Statistics publishes by state.

Source: The Bureau of Justice Statistics

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Connecticut's prison population is 36.8% below its 2013 peak; 11,099 in 2023. People under Connecticut's jurisdiction at year end, 2012 to 2023. Jurisdiction rather than custody: the state holds jurisdiction over a prisoner it houses elsewhere, which is the count the Bureau of Justice Statistics publishes by state.
YearPrisoners
201217,530
201317,563
201416,636
201515,816
201614,957
201714,040
201813,681
201912,823
20209,559
20219,889
202210,506
202311,099

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Prisoners under Connecticut's jurisdiction, 2012 to 2023
YearPrisonersRate per 100,000
201217,530333
201317,563338
201416,636326
201515,816313
201614,957289
201714,040269
201813,681252
201912,823246
20209,559176
20219,889155
202210,506171
202311,099183

Race and Hispanic origin · 2023

The Bureau’s own categories, under its own labels. This is the composition of the prison population, not a rate: it is not divided by the population of each group, and it should not be read as one. Percentages are of the people whose race the state reported.

Prisoners under Connecticut's jurisdiction by race and Hispanic origin, 2023
CategoryPrisonersShare
black4,66642.0%
hispanic3,20628.9%
white3,12228.1%
asian640.6%
american indian alaska native390.4%
unknown2< 0.1%
did not report00.0%
native hawaiian other pacific islander00.0%
other00.0%
two or more races00.0%

Sources

Compiled automatically from Bureau of Justice Statistics — Prisoners by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

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