US Prison Population Rises for Second Straight Year
Men exercise in the maximum security yard of the Lansing Correctional Facility in Lansing, Kan. The prison population in Kansas rose nearly 5% between 2022 and 2023 (John Moore/Getty Images)
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The nation’s prison population grew for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing more than a decade of steady decline.
A new prison population report from the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, released before the federal shutdown, shows that 1,254,224 people were incarcerated in state and federal prisons on the last day of 2023 — an increase of 24,081 people from the year before,…
