PRISONS AND PRISONERS; STATISTICAL INFORMATION;
PRISONS AND PRISONERS - STATISTICS;
November 10, 2003 |
2003-R-0837 | |
CONNECTICUT PRISON STATISTICS | ||
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By: Christopher Reinhart, Associate Attorney | ||
You asked for recent statistics on Connecticut’s prison population including the overall incarcerated and supervised population, the pretrial population, and a breakdown of the prison population by race and by offense.
On September 1, 2003, the Department of Correction (DOC) held 19,090 inmates in incarceration and supervised a total of 24,607. Of the incarcerated population, 18% or 3,499 inmates were pretrial inmates held before trial or sentencing.
The chart below shows the breakdown of the incarcerated and supervised population by race.
Incarcerated Population |
Supervised Population | |||
Number |
Percent |
Number |
Percent | |
Black |
8,328 |
43. 6% |
10,698 |
43. 5% |
White |
5,328 |
27. 9% |
6,884 |
28. 0% |
Hispanic |
5,284 |
27. 7% |
6,851 |
27. 8% |
Asian |
119 |
. 6% |
133 |
. 5% |
American Indian |
31 |
. 2% |
37 |
. 2% |
Total |
19,090 |
24,603* |
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Source: Office of Fiscal Analysis, DOC database
*Race unspecified for four people.
Attached is a breakdown of the incarcerated population by offense.
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