Via email, I learned that the Justcie Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics today released these two big new data reports: “Correctional Populations in the United States, 2022 – Statistical Tables” and “Probation and Parole in the United States, 2022.” Here is how BJS describes these reports:
[The correctional populations] report summarizes data on populations supervised by probation or parole agencies and those incarcerated in state or federal prisons or in the custody of local jails from 2012 to 2022. It also includes tables on sex and race or ethnicity of persons supervised by correctional systems. BJS has published statistics on correctional populations since 1985….
[The probation and parole] report provides data on adult U.S. residents under correctional supervision in the community. It includes characteristics of this population, such as sex, race or ethnicity, and most serious offense. The report details how people move onto and off community supervision, such as completing their term of supervision, being incarcerated, absconding, or other unsatisfactory outcomes while in the community. It is the 31st in a series that began in 1981.
Though it is alwaus a bit disappointing that these great data reports are already nearly 18 months behind present day realities, the BJS always deserves thanks for the great, rigorous job it does collecting and publishing these complicated data.