State Prison Systems Ranked by Number of Prisoners, 2007
State Prison Systems Ranked by Number of Prisoners, 2007 Percent of state population incarcereated, 2007 all ranking is done from most to least Percent of state population incarcerated, ranked by state 2007 Statistics derived from "Number of sentenced prisoners under jurisdiction of state or federal correctional authorities, December 31, 2000, 2006 and 2007" Modified as follows: removed region and jurisdiction row, number of prisoners 2006 row, as well as percent change rows removed region count columns. Source document: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/sheets/p07.zip ; filename inside sites accessed: March 21 and 24, 2009 located at the following site: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/p07.htm Federal Prisoners: 179,204 July 2007 estimated state population from US Census Bureau Page: http://www.census.gov/popest/states/states.html state state Number of state Number of difference percent percent percent of state population prisoners population prisoners in rank of state of state all prisoners estimate rank rank of state population population in state population incarcer- incarcerated, prison and prisoner ated ranked by systems population state California 36,377,534 172,856 1 1 0 0.48% 18 12.77% California Texas 23,843,432 161,695 2 2 0 0.68% 3 11.95% Texas Florida 18,199,526 98,219 4 3 -01 0.54% 8 7.26% Florida New York 19,429,316 62,177 3 4 +01 0.32% 36 4.59% New York Georgia/d 9,523,297 54,232 9 5 -04 0.57% 6 4.01% Georgia/d Ohio/c 11,477,641 50,731 7 6 -01 0.44% 21 3.75% Ohio/c Michigan 10,049,790 50,233 8 7 -01 0.50% 14 3.71% Michigan Pennsylvania 12,419,930 45,446 6 8 +02 0.37% 30 3.36% Pennsylvania Illinois 12,825,809 45,215 5 9 +04 0.35% 33 3.34% Illinois Virginia 7,698,775 37,984 12 10 -02 0.49% 15 2.81% Virginia Louisiana 4,373,310 37,341 25 11 -14 0.85% 1 2.76% Louisiana Arizona/d 6,353,421 35,490 15 12 -03 0.56% 7 2.62% Arizona/d North Carolina 9,041,594 33,016 10 13 +03 0.37% 31 2.44% North Carolina Missouri 5,878,399 29,844 18 14 -04 0.51% 12 2.20% Missouri Alabama 4,626,595 28,605 23 15 -08 0.62% 5 2.11% Alabama Indiana 6,335,862 27,114 16 16 0 0.43% 22 2.00% Indiana New Jersey/c 8,653,126 26,827 11 17 +06 0.31% 39 1.98% New Jersey/c Tennessee 6,149,116 26,267 17 18 +01 0.43% 23 1.94% Tennessee Oklahoma 3,608,123 24,197 28 19 -09 0.67% 4 1.79% Oklahoma South Carolina 4,404,914 23,314 24 20 -04 0.53% 9 1.72% South Carolina Colorado/c 4,842,770 22,841 22 21 -01 0.47% 19 1.69% Colorado/c Maryland 5,618,899 22,780 19 22 +03 0.41% 26 1.68% Maryland Wisconsin 5,598,893 22,307 20 23 +03 0.40% 27 1.65% Wisconsin Kentucky 4,236,308 21,823 26 24 -02 0.52% 11 1.61% Kentucky Mississippi 2,921,030 21,502 31 25 -06 0.74% 2 1.59% Mississippi Washington 6,449,511 17,757 14 26 +12 0.28% 41 1.31% Washington Connecticut/b 3,489,868 14,397 29 27 -02 0.41% 25 1.06% Connecticut/b Arkansas 2,830,557 14,310 32 28 -04 0.51% 13 1.06% Arkansas Oregon/c 3,735,549 13,918 27 29 +02 0.37% 29 1.03% Oregon/c Nevada 2,554,344 13,245 35 30 -05 0.52% 10 0.98% Nevada Massachusetts 6,467,915 9,699 13 31 +18 0.15% 50 0.72% Massachusetts Minnesota 5,182,360 9,468 21 32 +11 0.18% 48 0.70% Minnesota Iowa/c,d 2,983,360 8,732 30 33 +03 0.29% 40 0.65% Iowa/c,d Kansas/c 2,777,382 8,696 33 34 +01 0.31% 38 0.64% Kansas/c Idaho 1,496,145 7,319 39 35 -04 0.49% 16 0.54% Idaho Utah 2,668,925 6,415 34 36 +02 0.24% 44 0.47% Utah New Mexico 1,964,402 6,225 36 37 +01 0.32% 37 0.46% New Mexico West Virginia 1,809,836 6,049 37 38 +01 0.33% 35 0.45% West Virginia Hawaii/b 1,277,356 4,367 42 39 -03 0.34% 34 0.32% Hawaii/b Nebraska 1,769,473 4,329 38 40 +02 0.24% 43 0.32% Nebraska Delaware/b 861,953 4,201 45 41 -04 0.49% 17 0.31% Delaware/b Montana 956,624 3,431 44 42 -02 0.36% 32 0.25% Montana South Dakota 795,689 3,306 46 43 -03 0.42% 24 0.24% South Dakota Alaska/b 681,111 3,072 47 44 -03 0.45% 20 0.23% Alaska/b New Hampshire 1,312,256 2,930 41 45 +04 0.22% 46 0.22% New Hampshire Rhode Island/ 1,053,136 2,481 43 46 +03 0.24% 45 0.18% Rhode Island/b Maine 1,315,398 2,093 40 47 +07 0.16% 49 0.15% Maine Wyoming 523,252 2,084 50 48 -02 0.40% 28 0.15% Wyoming Vermont/b 620,748 1,617 49 49 0 0.26% 42 0.12% Vermont/b North Dakota 637,904 1,416 48 50 +02 0.22% 47 0.10% North Dakota TOTAL 300,702,464 1,353,613 na na na na na na TOTAL AVERAGE na na na na na 0.41% na na AVERAGE Note: Sentenced prisoner is defined as a prisoner sentenced to more than 1 year. /Not reported. :Not calculated. a/Totals estimated. Illinois did not provide data in 2006 and 2007. Maine and Nevada did not provide data in 2007. b/Prisons and jails form one integrated system. Data include total jail and prison populations. c/Includes some inmates sentenced to 1 year or less.
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