" The U.S. imprisonment rate at yearend 2021 was 350 sentenced prisoners per 100,000 U.S. residents, a 2% decline from yearend 2020 (357 per 100,000) (table 5).
" Black U.S. residents were imprisoned at a rate of 901 per 100,000 at yearend 2021, the second consecutive year the rate was below 1,000 per 100,000, and a 37% decrease from the rate in 2011 (1,438 per 100,000).
" The imprisonment rate for federal prisons increased about 1% from 2020 to 2021 but declined 31% from 2011 to 2021.
" At yearend 2021, about 853 per 100,000 adult male U.S. residents and 60 per 100,000 adult female U.S. residents were serving a sentence in state or federal prison (table 6).
" From yearend 2020 to yearend 2021, the imprisonment rate of black adults in the United States declined 4% (from 1,238 to 1,186 per 100,000), while the rate at which Hispanic adults were imprisoned decreased 3% (from 641 to 619 per 100,000).
" Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Other Pacific Islander U.S. residents had the lowest imprisonment rates of all racial or ethnic groups, with 90 per 100,000 age 18 or older and 72 per 100,000 of all ages serving a sentence in prison at yearend 2021.
" U.S. residents age 18 or older were imprisoned by state correctional authorities at a rate of 393 per 100,000 at yearend 2021, down 30% from yearend 2011, when the rate was 561 per 100,000."
E. Ann Carson, PhD. Prisoners In 2021 - Statistical Tables. Washington, DC: US Dept of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics, December 2022, NCJ305125.
