Chart: Federal, state, and local incarceration rates rose significantly throughout the 1980s and 1990s: Federal, state, and local incarceration rates per 100,000 population, 1925–2020

Year	State prisons	Federal prisons	Local jails
1925	73	6
1926	77	6
1927	85	6
1928	89	7
1929	88	11
1930	95	10
1931	100	10
1932	100	10
1933	100	9
1934	100	10
1935	101	12
1936	101	12
1937	106	12
1938	110	13
1939	122	15
1940	116	15	75
1941	110	14
1942	98	12
1943	88	12
1944	82	13
1945	82	13
1946	86	12
1947	92	12
1948	94	11
1949	97	11
1950	97	11	57
1951	95	11
1952	95	11
1953	95	12
1954	99	12
1955	99	12
1956	99	12
1957	101	12
1958	104	12
1959	104	13
1960	104	13	67
1961	106	13
1962	104	13
1963	102	12
1964	100	11
1965	97	11
1966	91	10
1967	88	10
1968	83	10
1969	87	10
1970	85	10	79
1971	85	10
1972	83	10
1973	85	11
1974	91	10
1975	100	11
1976	108	12
1977	112	13
1978	119	12	76
1979	123	10
1980	129	9	72
1981	144	10
1982	160	10
1983	167	11	98
1984	175	12	99
1985	187	14	108
1986	201	15	114
1987	214	16	122
1988	228	17	141
1989	255	19	160
1990	275	20	163
1991	289	22	169
1992	304	26	174
1993	331	29	178
1994	358	31	187
1995	379	32	193
1996	393	33	196
1997	409	35	212
1998	424	38	219
1999	434	42	222
2000	426	44	220
2001	422	48	222
2002	428	49	231
2003	431	52	238
2004	433	54	243
2005	436	56	253
2006	443	58	256
2007	447	59	259
2008	447	60	258
2009	443	61	250
2010	439	61	242
2011	429	63	236
2012	417	62	237
2013	416	61	231
2014	411	60	234
2015	403	55	227
2016	397	53	229
2017	390	51	229
2018	382	50	226
2019	371	48	224
2020	315	43	167

Source: Calculated from the counts found in Bureau of Justice Statistics data and the U.S. Census Bureau population counts made available at www.prisonpolicy.org/data/us_population_by_sex_over_time.xlsx.