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PRISON POPULATION AND CORRECTIONAL EXPENDITURES
                                   By State, 1970 - 1996


                        Total Confined1 (as of Dec. 31)
State                   1970   1980     1990      1995


Alabama ...........3,790       6,543   15,665    20,718l
Alaska2 ...........      NA      822    2,622     3,522
Arizona3 ..........    1,461   4,372   14,261    21,341
Arkansas...........      NA    2,911    6,766     9,411
California4......... 25,033   24,569   97,309   135,646
Colorado...........  2,066     2,629    7,671    11,063
Connecticut2 ......  1,568     4,308   10,500    14,801
Delaware2..........      596    1,474   3,471     4,802
District of Columbia2  1,423   3,145  8,637    9,800
Florida3.3...........9,187  20,735  44,387   63,879
Georgia3...........  5,113  12,178 22,345    34,266
Hawaii2 .............    228     985    2,533     3,560
Idaho ...............411         817    1,961     3,328
ILLINOIS3 .........6,381    11,899  27,516   37,658
Indiana............  4,137     6,683   12,736    16,125
IOWA3 ............1,747        2,481    3,967     5,906
Kansas ............1,902       2,494    5,777     7,054
Kentucky ..........2,849       3,588    9,023    12,060
Louisiana ..........4,196      8,889   18,599    25,195
Maine.............       516     814    1,523     1,396
Maryland ..........5,186       7,731   17,848    21,453
Massachusetts .....  2,053     3,185    8,273    11,687
MICHIGAN3 ......       9,079   15,124  34,267    41,112
MINNESOTA .....        1,585   2,001    3,176     4,846
Mississippi .........1,730     3,902    8,375    12,684
Missouri...........  3,413     5,726   14,943    19,134
Montana5 ...........     260     739    1,425     1,992
Nebraska ..........1,001        1,446   2,403     3,074
Nevada............       690    1,839   5,322     7,713
New Hampshire ....       244     326    1,342     2,014
New Jersey .........5,704      5,884   21,128    27,066
New Mexico .......       742    1,279   3,187     4,078
New York..........    12,059  21,815   54,895  68,489
North Carolina .....   5,969   15,513  18,411  29,253
North Dakota ......      147     253     483        608
Ohio..............     9,185   13,489  31,822    44,663
Oklahoma..........     3,640   4,796   12,285    18,151
Oregon............     1,800    3,177   6,492     7,886
Pennsylvania ......  6,289   8,171  22,290   32,410
Rhode Island2 ......     NA      813    2,392     2,902
South Carolina .....   2,726   7,862   17,319    19,611
South Dakota ......      391     635    1,341     1,841
Tennessee6 .........3,268      7,022   10,388    15,206
Texas.............  14,331  29,892  50,042  127,766
Utah .................491        932    2,496     3,452
Vermont2,3 ........... 162       480    1,049     1,072
Virginia ...........4,648    8,920  17,593   27,415
Washington........     2,864   4,399    7,995    11,608
West Virginia_.....      938    1,257   1,565     2,512
WISCONSIN7 .....       2,973    3,980   7,362    11,199
Wyoming ...........      231     534    1,110     1,395
   UNITED STATES     176,403 305,458 706,288 1,025,823


Prison Population
(as of 6/30/96)
  Total     Rate*


21,495
  3,583
  22,143
  9,430
142,814
11,742
14,975
  5,148
  9,763
  64,332
  34,808
  3,693
  3,623
  38,373
  16,582
  6,176
  7,462
  12,652
  26,673
  1,468
  22,118
  11,996
  41,884
  5,040
  13,785
  20,541
  2,182
  3,248
  8,064
  2,050
  27,753
  4,528
  68,721
  30,671
    640
 45,314
 19,134
 8,564
 33,939
 3,226
 20,814
 2,049
 15,634
 129,937
 3,643
 1,096
 28,827
 12,059
 2,679
 12,105
 1,458


503.0
590.3
500.1
375.7
448.0
307.2
457.4
710.2
1797.3
446.8
473.4
312.0
304.6
323.9
283.9
216.6
290.1
325.8
613.1
118.1
436.1
196.9
436.5
108.2
507.5
383.3
248.1
196.6
503.0
176.3
347.4
264.3
377.9
418.8
  99.5
  405.6
  579.7
  267.3
  281.5
  325.8
  562.7
  279.8
  293.9
  679.3
  182.1
  186.2
  431.8
  217.9
  146.7
  234.6
  302.9


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Expenditure on Corrections
           1995
    Total      Per Inmate
(in thousands) Amount Rank


g26O69 .039 $5.413


NA - Not available.
*Rate - Number of prisoners confined per 100,000 residents. Rates for states
with integrated systems are likely to be
   overstated compared to states that do not include jails in total population
counts.
1Numbers of prisoners confined include both sentenced and unsentenced inmates,
except for 1970 statistics in which only
   sentenced inmates are included.
2Prisons and jails comprise an integrated corrections system; data include
both prison and jail populations in the state.
3Population counts are based on custody data. Georgia counts exclude an undetermined
number of inmates housed in local
  jails, awaiting pick-up.
4California population counts include civil narcotics commitments, county
diagnostic cases, federal and other states' inmates,
   Youth Authority commitments, and safekeepers, but exclude 1,384 persons
held in Youth Authority facilities who are under the
   jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections.
5Includes 200 males and 3 females held in county jails because of overcrowding.
6Excludes 3,281 felons sentenced to local jails. State pays to house them,
but the local court retains jurisdiction.
7Wisconsin population count does not include 1,304 male and 229 female prisoners
supervised by the Division of Intensive
   Sanctions.
Sources: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of
Justice Statistics, Prison and Jail Inmates at
  Midyear 1996, January 1997 and previous issues; U.S. Bureau of the Census,
Governments Division, State Governments Finance
  Data (electronic format only); U.S. Bureau of the Census, Population Division,
Yearly Population Estimates of the U.S., Regions,
  Divisions, and States (electronic format only). Per capita figures and
rankings calculated by the Wisconsin Legislative Reference
  Bureau.


$231,357 $11,167    49
  146,625  41,631   6
  436,779  20,467   40
  160,878  17,095   45
3,675,808  27,099   29
  319,686  28,897   22
  481,266  32,516    14
  110,072  22,922   33
      NA      NA NA
1,599,259  25,036   30
  764,510  22,311   35
  110,238  30,966   15
  76,001   22,837   34
  815,775  21,663   38
  350,901  21,761   37
  176,666  29,913  18
  191,416  27,136   28
  221,083  18,332   42
  353,473  14,029   46
  63,155   45,240    4
  746,649  34,804    12
  660,273  56,496    1
1,184,528  28,812   23
  246,261  50,817    2
  139,495  10,998   50
  265,242  13,862   47
  49,635   24,917   31
  84,987   27,647   27
  135,987  17,631   44
  58,628   29,110   21
  825,382  30,495    17
  161,014  39,484   8
2,272,887  33,186  13
  819,632  28,019   25
  18,105   29,778  19
1,051,783  23,549   32
  246,914  13,603   48
  280,965  35,628    11
  954,704  29,457   20
  114,371  39,411   9
  348,052  17,748   43
  40,678   22,096   36
  424,429  27,912   26
2,590,405  20,275   41
  144,326  41,809   5
  41,159   38,395    10
  778,486  28,396   24
  482,761  41,589    7
  77,231   30,745    16
  509,551  45,500    3
  29,570   21,197   39


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