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Overview

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) compiles comprehensive information on persons sentenced to state and federal prisons, through the National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) survey and the National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP). BJS has made these data available through the CSAT-Prisoners tool, an interface that can generate various statistics, figures and maps on prison admissions, prison releases, and year-end prison populations between 1978 and 2021.

Frequently Requested Figures

View selected pre-formatted figures showing long-term trends in prison admissions, releases, and year-end populations, and the most recent data on characteristics of persons admitted to prison, released from prison, and in the year-end prison population.

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Map Query

Create maps showing annual state-level admission, release, and year-end population counts.

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Advanced Query

Build tabulations showing annual counts of admissions, releases, and year-end populations; characteristics of persons admitted to, released from, or in the year-end population; and national admission, release, and year-end population statistics.

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