US incarceration timeline-clean

Original image on top from which the following images were derived. Latest authors on bottom.

• US incarceration timeline.gif: November Coalition. http://www.november.org.
• Sentence with November.org contact info removed from bottom of chart by User:Timeshifter.
• US incarceration timeline-clean.gif: Apoc2400.
• Conversion to SVG: Sarefo.
• Further SVG image editing: Delphi234.

References:

• Derivative of File:US incarceration timeline.gif - see its description for detailed data sourcing.
• Some sources for stats for years covered beyond that in File:US incarceration timeline.gif are below.
  • BJS is U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
  • OJJDP is Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
• Correctional Population Trends Chart, 1980-2009. BJS. Data table is no longer on the BJS site at that URL. The last version of it archived at the Internet Archive was archived on January 20, 2013.
• Correctional Populations In The United States, 2014 (NCJ 249513). BJS. See Table 1 from the PDF.
• Correctional Populations in the United States, 2013 (NCJ 248479). BJS. See appendix table 5 on page 13 in the PDF. Estimated number of persons supervised by adult correctional systems, by correctional status, 2000–2013:

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• Appendix Table 2 in above-linked PDF source has detailed breakdown for 2012 and 2013 inmate totals.
• Historical Corrections Statistics in the United States, 1850-1984 (NCJ 102529). PDF. BJS.

Prison. 1850 6,737. 1860 19,086. 1870 32,901. 1880 30,659. 1890 45,233. 1904 57,070. 1923 81,959. 1930 120,496. 1950 178,128. 1960 226,344. 1970 198,831. 1980 302,377.

Jail. 1880 18,686. 1890 33,093. 1940 99,249. 1950 86,492. 1960 119,671. 1970 129,189. 1978 158,394. 1980 163,994. 1983 223,551.

Table 5-23. Juvenile Delinquents. 1880 11,468. 1890 14,846. 1904 23,034. 1910 25,422. 1923 27,238. 1933 30,496. 1950 40,880. 1960 57,883. 1970 76,729. 1980 59,414.

Table 5-31. Juvenile Delinquents. 1974 76,671. 1975 74,270. 1977 73,166. 1979 71,922.

• National Juvenile Custody Trends 1978-1989. OJJDP.

Figure 3. Juvenile Delinquents. 1979 71,922. 1983 80,091. 1985 83,402. 1987 91,646. 1989 93,945.

• Prison Inmates at Midyear 2009 - Statistical Tables (NCJ 230113). BJS.

December 31, 2000 and 2008, and June 30, 2008 and 2009.

• Easy Access to the Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement. OJJDP. Click "National Crosstabs" at the top, and then choose the census years. Click "Show table" to get the total number of juvenile inmates for those years. 1997-2011.
• Youth residing in juvenile detention, correctional and/or residential facilities. KIDS COUNT Data Center. Graph, 1997-2011.
• Youth residing in juvenile detention, correctional and/or residential facilities. KIDS COUNT Data Center. Table of stats, 1997-2006.

More resources:

• Local jail inmates and jail facilities. BJS.
• Total correctional population. BJS.
• Corrections. BJS.
• Key Facts At A Glance. BJS.
• Corrections Statistical Analysis Tool (CSAT) - Prisoners. BJS.
• Publications & Products: National Prisoner Statistics (NPS). BJS.
• Statistical Briefing Book. OJJDP.
• Data Collection: Annual Survey of Jails. BJS.
• Publications & Products: Correctional Populations in the United States.
• Correctional Populations in the United States, 2010 (NCJ 236319). BJS.
• Correctional Populations in the United States, 2011 (NCJ 239972). BJS.
• Correctional Populations in the United States, 1997 (NCJ 177613). BJS.
• Correctional Populations in the United States, 1998 - Statistical tables (NCJ 192929). BJS.
• Correctional Populations in the United States, 2009 (NCJ 231681) BJS.
• Prisoners in 2011 (NCJ 239808). BJS.
• Prisoners in 2010 (NCJ 236096). BJS.
• Prisoners in 2009 (NCJ 231675). BJS.
• Prisoners in 2008 (NCJ 228417). BJS.
• Tracking State Prison Growth in 50 States. See the list of sources at the end in the methodology section. Prison Policy Initiative.