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March 2009
 One in 31; the Long Reach of American Corrections
In 2006, the Pew Center on the States launched the Public Safety
Performance Project (PSPP) to help states advance fiscally sound,
data-driven policies and practices in sentencing and corrections that
protect public safety, hold offenders accountable, and control
corrections costs. For this report, the researchers sought to examine the
scale and cost of prison, jail, probation, and parole in each of the 50
states, and provide a blueprint for states to cut both crime and spending
by reallocating prison expenses to fund stronger supervision of the large
number of offenders in the community. They found the following
prevalence:
About one of every 31 adults in the United States is in prison or jail,
or on probation or parole. Of these individuals, two-thirds of offenders
are in the community, not incarcerated.
One in 45 adults is on probation or parole.
One in 100 is in prison or jail
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