| Notes: | Data are as of December 31, 2007. Does not include individuals under the jurisdiction of each state's juvenile justice system. |
| Sources: | Prisoners in 2007, National Prison Statistics (NCJ 224280), 2007 collection, Bureau of Justice Statistics. Available at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/p07.htm |
| Definitions: | NA = Data is not available. |
| Footnotes: | - States do not sum to U.S. total due to 199,618 additional adult prisoners under Federal jurisdiction.
- Prisons and jails form one integrated system. Data include total jail and prison populations.
- Population based on custody counts.
- As of December 31, 2001, sentenced felons from the District of Columbia were the responsibility of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
- Estimates only. Data for 2007 were not available at time of publication.
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