Prisoners In Prisons

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On the Federal Bureau of Prisons website, the United States held an estimated 1,561,500 prisoners in state and federal correctional facilities at the yearend 2014. The percent of crime offences of inmates of violent offences 53.2% or 704,800 prisoners which include 165,600 inmates for murder or no negligent manslaughter and 166,200 for sexual assault based crimes. Other minor offense ranges from property at 19.3% (burglary, motor vehicle theft and fraud), drug possession at 15.7%, public order at 11% and order crimes at 0.08. As of 2014 there are estimated 434,420 correctional officers and jailers working for both federal, state and local prisons and jails. For every ten inmates there are in prison, there are only correctional officer in a