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Federal Bureau of Prisons QUICK FACTS
September 2004
Note: Data presented here are from BOP automated information
systems. Percentages may not add to 100 due to rounding.
- Number of Institutions
- Total Population
- Inmates by Security Level
- Inmates by Gender
- Inmates by Race
- Inmates by Ethnicity
- Inmates by Citizenship
- Average Inmate Age
- Sentence Imposed
- Type of Offense
- BOP Population Over Time/Drug Offenders as a Percentage of All Sentenced Offenders
- Staff by Gender
- Staff by Race/Ethnicity
NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONS: 104
TOTAL INMATE POPULATION: 180,318 In BOP facilities: 153,084
In privately managed secure facilities: 15,491
Includes inmates housed in privately operated secure facilities under contract with the BOP or
with a state or local government that has an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with the BOP.
In other non-BOP facilities: 11,743
Includes inmates in facilities operated by a state or locality that is either under contract or
under an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with the BOP. Primarily includes inmates housed in jail/short-term detention, contract
juveniles, home confinement, and community corrections centers.
Sentenced population: 161,762
These figures are as of September 4, 2004. See the most recent weekly population figures for updates and for individual BOP institutions.
INMATES BY SECURITY LEVEL (BOP facilities only) Minimum: 19.1%
Low: 39.1% Medium: 25.3%
High: 10.5%
6.0% of inmates have not been assigned a security level.
INMATES BY GENDER Male: 167,964 (93.2%)
Female: 12,354 (6.8%)
INMATES BY RACE White: 101,955 (56.5%)
Black: 72,433 (40.2%)
Asian: 2,890 (1.6%)
Native
American: 3,040 (1.7%)
ETHNICITY Hispanic: 57,863 (32.1%)
CITIZENSHIP United States: 128,563 (71.3%)
Mexico: 30,545 (16.9%)
Colombia: 3,574 (2.0%)
Cuba: 2,173 (1.2%) Dominican Republic: 3,457
(1.9%)
Other/Unknown: 12,006 (6.7%)
AVERAGE INMATE AGE: 38
SENTENCE IMPOSED (calculated for those with sentencing information available) Less
than 1 year: 3,683 (2.2%)
1-3 years: 23,968 (14.6%)
3-5 years: 26,414 (16.1%)
5-10 years: 47,385 (28.9%)
10-15 years: 28,711 (17.5%)
15-20 years: 13,816 (8.4%)
More than 20 years: 14,798 (9.0%)
Life: 5,260 (3.2%)
Death: 29*
*This number represents those inmates with a Federal death sentence who are confined in the Special Confinement
Unit at the U.S. Penitentiary, Terre Haute, IN.
TYPES OF OFFENSES (calculated for those with offense-specific information available) Drug Offenses: 88,619 (54.1%)
Weapons, Explosives, Arson: 20,128 (12.3%) Immigration:
17,745 (10.8%)
Robbery: 10,204 (6.2%) Extortion, Fraud, Bribery:
7,191 (4.4%) Burglary, Larceny, Property
Offenses: 7,051 (4.3%) Homicide, Aggravated Assault,
and Kidnapping Offenses: 5,363 (3.3%) Miscellaneous:
3,251 (2.0%)
Sex Offenses 1,702 (1.0%)Banking and Insurance,
Counterfeit,
Embezzlement: 1,072 (0.7%) Courts or Corrections:
(e.g., Obstructing Justice) 728 (0.4%) Continuing Criminal Enterprise:
614 (0.4%)
National Security: 97 (0.1%)
Federal Prison Population Over Time/Drug Offenders in BOP-Operated Facilities
| Year |
Total sentenced and unsentenced population |
Total sentenced population |
Total sentenced drug offenders |
Percentage of sentenced prisoners who are drug offenders |
| 1970 |
21,266 |
20,686 |
3,384 |
16.3% |
| 1971 |
20,891 |
20,529 |
3,495 |
17.0% |
| 1972 |
22,090 |
20,729 |
3,523 |
16.9% |
| 1973 |
23,336 |
22,038 |
5,652 |
25.6% |
| 1974 |
23,690 |
21,769 |
6,203 |
28.4% |
| 1975 |
23,566 |
20,692 |
5,540 |
26.7% |
| 1976 |
27,033 |
24,135 |
6,425 |
26.6% |
| 1977 |
29,877 |
25,673 |
6,743 |
26.2% |
| 1978 |
27,674 |
23,501 |
5,981 |
25.4% |
| 1979 |
24,810 |
21,539 |
5,468 |
25.3% |
| 1980 |
24,252 |
19,023 |
4,749 |
24.9% |
| 1981 |
26,195 |
19,765 |
5,076 |
25.6% |
| 1982 |
28,133 |
20,938 |
5,518 |
26.3% |
| 1983 |
30,214 |
26,027 |
7,201 |
27.6% |
| 1984 |
32,317 |
27,622 |
8,152 |
29.5% |
| 1985 |
36,042 |
27,623 |
9,491 |
34.3% |
| 1986 |
37,542 |
30,104 |
11,344 |
37.7% |
| 1987 |
41,609 |
33,246 |
13,897 |
41.8% |
| 1988 |
41,342 |
33,758 |
15,087 |
44.7% |
| 1989 |
47,568 |
37,758 |
18,852 |
49.9% |
| 1990 |
54,613 |
46,575 |
24,297 |
52.2% |
| 1991 |
61,026 |
52,176 |
29,667 |
56.9% |
| 1992 |
67,768 |
59,516 |
35,398 |
59.5% |
| 1993 |
76,531 |
68,183 |
41,393 |
60.7% |
| 1994 |
82,269 |
73,958 |
45,367 |
61.3% |
| 1995 |
85,865 |
76,947 |
46,669 |
60.7% |
| 1996 |
89,672 |
80,872 |
49,096 |
60.7% |
| 1997 |
95,513 |
87,294 |
52,059 |
59.6% |
| 1998 |
104,507 |
95,323 |
55,984 |
58.7% |
| 1999 |
115,024 |
104,500 |
60,399 |
57.8% |
| 2000 |
123,141 |
112,329 |
63,898 |
56.9% |
| 2001 |
131,419 |
120,829 |
67,037 |
55.5% |
| 2002 |
139,183 |
128,090 |
70,009 |
54.7% |
Note: Data for 1970 to 1976 are for June 30; data for 1977
onwards are for September 30. Data are for inmates in BOP facilities only (i.e., do not include inmates in contract facilities).
STAFF BY GENDER Male: 24,651 (71.8%)
Female: 9,691 (28.2%)
STAFF BY RACE/ETHNICITY White (Non-Hispanic): 22,130 (64.4%)
African American: 7,160 (20.9%)
Hispanic: 3,829 (11.1%)Asian: 701 (2.0%) Native American: 508 (1.5%)
Other: 14
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