The U.S. prison population in state and federal prisons reaches one million (for the first time in American history. An additional 500,000 prisoners were estimated to be held in local prisons. The United States became second only to Russia in the world for incarceration rates at the time.
In 2021, the U.S. had the highest incarceration rate in the world. In 2024, counting all federal, state, local, and tribal systems. Together, the incarcerated population is over 1.9 million people. More