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Lately the Federal Bureau of Prisons released an update of their prison population, which included breakdowns of race, sex, sentences and offenses. Currently, there are 189,984 inmates in the United States federal prison program. The breakdown of the data is at times common and nevertheless surprising other instances. Did you know that the average age of a federal inmate is 38? Federal prisons, as you may know, are located all about the United States. The prisons are divided into minimum, low, medium and high (also recognized as maximum) security.

By far guys are convicted of a lot more crimes than females. Ladies account for just 6.7% of the whole federal prison population. They do make up 27.6% of the federal prison staff. The most typical race of federal inmates is Black, followed by Hispanic (classified as white) and white non-Hispanic. Native Americans account for 1.8% of the population and Asians round out the list at 1.6%. There are currently 31,891 Mexican citizens serving time in the federal prison technique.

The majority of inmates are locked up in low and medium security prisons. Only ten.3% of the federal inmate population is serving time in high security prisons. 18.7% are serving time in minimum-security areas. While the news routinely talks about how the government is soft on immigration, the stats provided by the Federal Bureau of Prisons show that at least some enforcement is taking place. There are 18,886 (10.8%) inmates in the federal method undertaking time for immigration connected offenses.

A robust majority of inmates are serving time for drug associated offenses. Weapons, Explosives and Arson offenses are a distant second. Just more than half of the entire federal inmate population is being incarcerated for drug related offenses. Most of these incarcerated are serving between 5 and 15 years. Only 3.1% of the population has a life sentence and a miniscule 38 have death sentences. 5-ten years is the most frequent sentence. Close to 30% of the inmates are serving a sentence of this length.

There are 3,657 sex offenders serving time in federal prisons. Numerous other individuals get out and renege on their obligations of release. Only 72.8% of these held in federal prisons are American citizens. Provided all of this details, the average federal prison inmate is a minority male in his 30s serving five-15 years for a drug related offense.