The Bureau of Justice Statistics released preliminary data on Tuesday regarding number, demographic, and conviction status of people held in local jails, along with the number of admissions to jail, and jail incarceration rates from 2013 to 2023. The major findings were:
At midyear 2023, local jails held 664,200 persons in custody, similar to the year before (663,100).
Jails reported 7.6 million admissions from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023. While this represents a 4% increase over the 7.3 million admissions the year before, annual admissions were 35% lower than 10 years ago (11.7 million).
Local jails held 95,100 females at midyear 2023, accounting for 14% of the confined population.
At midyear 2023, 70% of the jail population (467,600) was unconvicted and awaiting court action on a current charge or being held in jail for other reasons. The remaining 30% (196,600) was convicted and either serving a sentence or awaiting sentencing on a conviction.
Final statistics will be published in the forthcoming report, Jail Inmates in 2023, which is scheduled for release in late 2024.
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