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.

  1. Number of Institutions
  2. Total Population
  3. Inmates by Security Level
  4. Inmates by Gender
  5. Inmates by Race
  6. Inmates by Ethnicity
  7. Inmates by Citizenship
  8. Average Inmate Age
  9. Sentence Imposed
  10. Type of Offense
  11. BOP Population Over Time/Drug Offenders as a Percentage of All Sentenced Offenders
  12. Staff by Gender
  13. 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