U.S. incarceration rates timeline.
Year Incarceration

Rate.

Total

inmates
in prisons
and jails.

USA. Total

Midyear
Population.

















 

1978

1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005

203

220
241
263
276
288
312
332
353
388
435
458
480
503
524
558
595
610
639
658
678
686
688
707
718
729
742

452,790

501,886
555,114
610,767
645,713
681,282
742,939
799,171
856,906
949,659
1,076,670
1,146,401
1,216,664
1,292,347
1,364,881
1,469,947
1,585,586
1,646,020
1,743,643
1,816,931
1,893,115
1,937,482
1,961,247
2,033,022
2,085,620
2,135,901
2,193,798

222,585,000

227,726,463
229,966,237
232,187,835
234,307,207
236,348,292
238,466,283
240,650,755
242,803,533
245,021,414
247,341,697
250,131,894
253,492,503
256,894,189
260,255,352
263,435,673
266,557,091
269,667,391
272,911,760
276,115,288
279,294,713
282,338,631
285,023,886
287,675,526
290,342,554
293,027,571
295,734,134

    +126,561 +4,327,569 Add in

126,561
inmates
(Juvenile,
U.S.
Territories,
etc.) to get
total
inmates.

   
2005 773 2,320,359 300,061,703
  Total

incarceration
rate per
100,000
population.

Total

inmates in
U.S.A.
and its
Territories

Total

population
of U.S.A.
and its
Territories
(4,327,569).

 

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/p05.pdf and

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/pripropr.htm and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/p05.htm and
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/tables/corr2tab.htm and
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbprint.html Population.