how many people are in us prisons
This is the U.S. incarceration rate for adults or people tried as adults. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), 2,220,300 adults were incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons, and county jails in 2013 â about 0.91% of adults (1 in 110) in the U.S. resident population.n addition, there were 54,148 juveniles in juvenile detention in 2013. Although debtor's prisons no longer exist in the United States, residents of some U.S. states can still be incarcerated for debt as of 2015.