prison population
Those behind bars
Prison population refers to the total number of people incarcerated in a prison system at a given time.
The term appears in policy discussions about criminal justice: The state's prison population has doubled since 1990.
It can describe a single facility's inmates or an entire country's: The United States has the world's largest prison population.
- correctionsAdjustments to fix errors
- paroleConditional early release
- parole boardBody granting early freedom
- sentencing guidelinesRecommended ranges for court penalties
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
doing time · hard time · behind bars · age distribution · decriminalization · sentencing · probation · juvenile detention · demographics · recidivism · gender ratio · restorative justice · mandatory minimums · three strikes · life sentence · socioeconomic status · bail reform · criminal justice
- crime datacrime trends, arrest rate, incarceration rate, violent crime rate, property crime
- prison statisticsincarceration rates, federal prisons, state prisons, female inmates, racial disparities
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prisoner, warden
- prisonsinmates, cells, prisons, prisoner, penitentiary
- UK statisticsGDP, crime statistics, unemployment rate, birth rate, employment data
- statisticsmean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation
prison populationgeneral public
People as a whole
civilian population · free society · parolees · probationers · ex-convicts
prison populationnursing home residents
People living in eldercare institutions