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Total number of prison and jail inmates, 2000: 1,931,859
Percent change in prison and jail population, 1990-2000: 168.2
Number of people on probation or parole, 1999: 4,486,337
Percent change in probation or parole population, 1993-1999: 172.6
U$ White incarceration rate per 100,000 population: 374
U$ White male incarceration rate per 100,000 population: 683
U$ Hispanic incarceration rate per 100,000 population: 879
U$ Hispanic male incarceration rate per 100,000 population: 1,715
U$ Black incarceration rate per 100,000 population: 2,485
U$ Black male incarceration rate per 100,000 population: 4,777
Proportion of all Black males incarcerated on any one day (2000 est.): 1/21
Proportion of Black men aged 20-34 incarcerated on any one day (2000 est.): 1/8
Percent of adult population under some form of correctional supervision: 3.0

Wimmin
Number of wimmin in prison and jail, 2000: 156,200
U$ White female incarceration rate per 100,000 population: 64
U$ Hispanic female incarceration rate per 100,000 population: 109
U$ Black female incarceration rate per 100,000 population: 394

Notes:
1. Profile of General Demographic Characteristics for the U.S.: 2000 
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/tables/dp_us_2000.PDF.
2. BJS, Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2000, 
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/pjim00.pdf.
3. Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/1995/pdf/t61.pdf.