Prisons and Sentencing Reform
One in Every 31 Adults in the U.S. Incarcerated or Under Community Supervision
December 12, 2008On December 11, 2008, the United States Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics announced that about 3.2% of the U.S. adult population, or one in every 31 adults, was incarcerated or under community supervision at the end of 2007.
