People Under the Supervision of Adult Correctional Systems in the US

"At yearend 2023, an estimated 5,530,300 persons were under the supervision of adult correctional systems in the United States, an increase of 1% (up 49,700 persons) from yearend 2022.¹ The adult correctional system includes persons incarcerated in prisons and jails and persons supervised in the community on probation and parole. About 1 in 48 adult U.S. residents (2%) was under some form of correctional supervision at the end of 2023, the same as at yearend 2022. The incarceration rate remained the same from 2022 to 2023 (700 per 100,000 adult U.S. residents) (figure 1). The rate of persons under community supervision was lower in 2023 (1,430 per 100,000 adult U.S. residents) than in 2013 (1,950 per 100,000)."