As of February 2025, El Salvador had the highest prisoner rate worldwide, with over 1,600 prisoners per 100,000 of the national population. Cuba, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, and the United States, rounded out the top five countries with the highest rate of incarceration. Homicides in El Salvador Interestingly, El Salvador, which long had the highest global homicide rates, has dropped out of the top 20 after a high number of gang members have been incarcerated. A high number of the countries with the highest homicide rate are located in Latin America. Prisoners in the United StatesThe United States is home to the largest number of prisoners worldwide. More than 1.8 million people were incarcerated in the U.S. at the beginning of 2025. In China, the estimated prison population totaled 1.69 million people that year. Other nations had far fewer prisoners. The largest share of the U.S. prisoners in federal correctional facilities were of African-American origin. As of 2020, there were 345,500 black, non-Hispanic prisoners, compared to 327,300 white, non-Hispanic inmates. The U.S. states with the largest number of prisoners in 2022 were Texas, California, and Florida. Over 160,000 prisoners in state facilities were sentenced for rape or sexual assault, which was the most common cause of imprisonment. The second most common was murder, followed by aggravated or simple assault.

In 2024, there were approximately ****** white prisoners in England and Wales, compared with ****** Black prisoners, and ***** Asian prisoners.

In 2022, the incarceration rate of African Americans in local jails in the United States was *** incarcerations per 100,000 of the population -- the highest rate of any race or ethnicity. The second-highest incarceration rate was among American Indians/Alaska Natives, at *** incarcerations per 100,000 of the population.

In 2022, about 1,826 Black men per 100,000 residents were imprisoned in the United States. This rate was much lower for Black women, at 64 per 100,000 residents. The overall imprisonment rate in 2022 stood at 355 per 100,000 Americans.

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Historical Dataset of Walton County Jail Program is provided by PublicSchoolReview and contain statistics on metrics:Total Students Trends Over Years (2011-2023),Black Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (2011-2022),White Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (2014-2023),Diversity Score Comparison Over Years (2015-2022)

From June 2019 to June 2020, the confined jail inmate population in the United States fell across all ethnicities. The share of white confined jail inmates decreased by nearly ** percent due to COVID-19 in that year. On the other hand, it decreased by **** percent for Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander inmates.

Historical Dataset of Pinellas County Jail is provided by PublicSchoolReview and contain statistics on metrics:Total Students Trends Over Years (2013-2023),Distribution of Students By Grade Trends,Hispanic Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (2013-2023),Black Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (2013-2023),White Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (2013-2023),Two or More Races Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (2012-2022),Diversity Score Comparison Over Years (2013-2023),Free Lunch Eligibility Comparison Over Years (2013-2023),Reading and Language Arts Proficiency Comparison Over Years (2011-2014),Graduation Rate Comparison Over Years (2011-2022)

In France, in 2023, the majority of persons imprisoned were French, representing 75 percent of the prison population, compared to almost 13 percent for prisoners with a nationality from the African continent.

Historical Dataset of Highlands County Schools Jail Program is provided by PublicSchoolReview and contain statistics on metrics:Total Students Trends Over Years (2011-2023),Distribution of Students By Grade Trends,Hispanic Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (2014-2023),Black Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (2011-2023),White Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (2011-2018),Two or More Races Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (2019-2020),Diversity Score Comparison Over Years (2011-2023)

Historical Dataset of Palm Beach County Jail is provided by PublicSchoolReview and contain statistics on metrics:Total Students Trends Over Years (1999-2023),Total Classroom Teachers Trends Over Years (1998-2023),Distribution of Students By Grade Trends,Student-Teacher Ratio Comparison Over Years (2003-2023),Asian Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1998-2002),Hispanic Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1999-2023),Black Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1999-2023),White Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (1998-2023),Two or More Races Student Percentage Comparison Over Years (2011-2021),Diversity Score Comparison Over Years (1999-2023),Free Lunch Eligibility Comparison Over Years (2001-2023),Reduced-Price Lunch Eligibility Comparison Over Years (2003-2022),Reading and Language Arts Proficiency Comparison Over Years (2010-2022),Math Proficiency Comparison Over Years (2010-2021),Overall School Rank Trends Over Years (2010-2017),Graduation Rate Comparison Over Years (2011-2022)

In 2024, there were 87,869 men and 3,635 women in prisons in England and Wales. Compared with the previous year, this represented an increase for both men and women. This represented a peak in the number of prisoners during this provided time period, and was also the peak for the United Kingdom as a whole.
Demographics of prisoners There were 29,339 prisoners in their 30s in England and Wales in 2024, the most of any age group. In this year, there were also 3,354 prisoners who were aged between 15 and 20, with a further 21,381 prisoners who were in their 20s. In terms of the ethnicity of prisoners in England and Wales, 63,103 people in jail were White, 10,624 were Black, and 7,067were Asian. As of the same year, the most common religious faith of prisoners was Christianity, at 39,068 inmates, followed by 27,122 who identified as having no religion, with a further 15,909 who were Muslims. Increase in prison officers since 2017 The 23,614 prison officers working in England and Wales in 2024 was almost as high as 2011 when there were 24,369 officers. From 2010 onwards, the number of prison officers fell from 24,830 to 18,251 by 2014, and stayed at comparably low levels until 2018. Low government expenditure on Prisons during the same time period suggests this was a result of the austerity policies implemented by the UK government at that time. The government has steadily increased spending on prisons since 2019/20, with spending on prisons reaching 6.09 billion in 2022/23. This has however not been enough to avert a possible overcrowding crisis in England and Wales, which had just 768 spare prison places in September 2023.

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The study contains cross-section data on the relationship between aggregate levels of punishment and crime rates. It examines deterrent effects of punishment on seven Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) index crimes: murder, rape, assault, larceny, robbery, burglary, and auto theft, committed in 1960 in 47 states of the United States (excluded were New Jersey, Alaska, and Hawaii). For each state, the data include variables for the reported crime rates for each of the seven index crimes. For each of the index crimes, there are two sanction variables included: the probability of prison commitment and the average time served by those sentenced (severity of punishment). There are 11 socioeconomic variables, including family income, income distribution, unemployment rate for urban males in the age groups 14-24 and 35-39, labor force participation rate, educational level, percentage of young males in population, percentage of non-white young males living in the population, percentage of population living in Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas, sex ratio, and place of occurrence. The data also include per capita police expenditures for 1959 and 1960. A related data collection is PARTICIPATION IN ILLEGITIMATE ACTIVITIES: EHRLICH REVISITED, 1960 (ICPSR 8677). It provides alternative model specifications and estimations.

Between 2012 and 2020, the number of self-inflicted deaths among White prisoners in public prisons in England and Wales went up from 49 to 57.

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As of 2022, Black people were more likely than those of other races to be imprisoned in the United States. In that year, the rate of imprisonment for Black men stood at 1,826 per 100,000 of the population. For Black women, this rate stood at 64 per 100,000 of the population.