Correctional populations & growth in corrections

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For the last decade, the United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. As of yearend 2008 (the most recent year for which statistics are available), the U.S. incarcaration rate was 754 jail and prison inmates per 100,000 poulation, five to ten times higher than that of Canada and most of the industrialized democracies of Western Europe. At yearend 2009, the Alaska Department of Corrections held 4,490 offenders in institutions and 795 offenders in community residential centers, treatment centers, or offsite monitoring programs; additionally, 5,848 probationers and parolees were under DOC's supervising authority. This page indexes articles and other resources about correctional populations found on this site, as well as to selected other sites on the web.

Alaska

State agencies

Publications

Alaska Department of Corrections, Division of Administrative Services

2002 Offender Profile (2003).

2003 Offender Profile (2004).

2006 Offender Profile (2007).

2007 Offender Profile (2008).

2008 Offender Profile (2009).

2009 Offender Profile (2010).

Alaska Criminal Justice Assessment Commission

Final Report of the Alaska Criminal Justice Assessment Commission (2000).

National

National statistics

International

International statistics

Publications

"World Prison Population List, 8th edition" by Roy Walmsley. International Centre for Prison Studies, King's College of London, January 2009.