Us Prison Population By Race 2024. This is not a new state of affairs, with the prison population of the united states hovering around the 1.5 million people mark since the turn of the millennium. At the end of 2021, around 1.2 million prisoners were serving time in u.s.

According to the report, black americans are incarcerated at a state average of 1,240 per 100,000 residents, whereas latino americans are imprisoned at a rate of 349 per. At yearend 2022, persons sentenced to more than 1 year under the legal.