PRISONS AND PRISONERS - STATISTICS;

You asked for New York prison population figures for the past several years.

According to figures supplied by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, New York’s prison population increased from 61,736 on December 31,1992 to around 72,900 on December 31, 1999. But it declined 3. 7% in 2000 to nearly 70,200 and it declined 3. 8% to around 67,534 in 2001.

Table One shows the number of inmates in New York prisons as of December 31^st of each year from 1992 to 2001.

Table 1: Inmates in New York State Prison on December 31 of Each Year from 1992 through 2001

Year	Number of Inmates in Prison
1992	61,736
1993	64,569
1994	66,750
1995	68,486
1996	69,709
1997	69,108
1998	70,001
1999	72,899
2000	70,199
2001	67,534

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