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Number of persons held in State or Federal prisons or in local jails, 1995-2005
			Prisoners in custody
Year		Total inmates in custody	Federal	State	Inmates held in local jails	Incarceration rate^a
1995		1,585,586	89,538	989,004	507,044	601
2000^b		1,935,753	133,921	1,176,269	621,149	683
2001^b		1,961,247	143,337	1,180,155	631,240	685
2002^b		2,033,331	151,618	1,209,640	665,475	701
2003^b		2,081,580	161,673	1,222,135	691,301	712
2004^b	June	2,129,802	169,370	1,239,656	713,990	725
2004^b	December	...	170,535	1,244,311	...
2005^b	June 30	2,186,230	175,954	1,255,514	747,529	738
Percent change, 6/30/04-6/30/05		2.6%	3.9%	1.3%	4.7%
Average annual change, 12/31/95 - 6/30/05		3.4%	7.4%	2.5%	3.9%
Note: Jail counts are for midyear (June 30) and exclude persons who were supervised outside of a jail facility. State and Federal prisoner counts for 1995-2003 are for December 31.
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^aPersons in custody per 100,000 residents in each reference year.
^bTotal counts include Federal inmates in non-secure privately operated facilities: 6,143 in 2000, 6,192 in 2001, 6,598 in 2002, 6,471 in 2003, 6,786 (June) and 7,065 (December) in 2004, and 7,233 in June, 2005.

[edit] Summary

Table 1 is from the pdf file for the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics report called "Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2005".

Add 97,000 to the later yearly totals to include the people held in juvenile facilities:

Bar chart graph of yearly totals 1996 to 2005. Includes juvenile inmates:

http://gallery.marihemp.com/november/Incarceration2?full=1

Detailed breakdowns of yearly inmates:

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/ratesusa.htm

Timeline of U.S. yearly inmate totals and incarceration rates back to 1925:

http://corporatism.tripod.com/usaterr.htm

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current	22:57, 21 August 2007	641×468 (30 KB)	Timeshifter	(Uploaded larger version for better readability at full size.)
	21:05, 15 August 2006	479×350 (20 KB)	Timeshifter	(http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pjim05.pdf - Table 1 is from the pdf file for the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics report called "Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2005". http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/pjim05.htm )