We are interested in finding out how many prisons are in use in the United States, but I am having trouble locating this statistic anywhere. I would appreciate any help I could get. Thanks a million!
If you have the ACA 2007 Directory of Adult and Juvenile Correctional Departments, it lists the numbers of adult facilities and centers by state on pages 28-29. The directory is copyrighted, so I can't give you the pages. Please contact ACA http://www.aca.org There's other statistics available from the Bureau of Justice Statistics at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/ The Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 2000 (published 2003) is available online at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/csfcf00.pdfYou also might be interested in http://www.nicic.org/Features/StateStats/
Thank you, Sandy. We found exactly what we were looking for in the ACA Directory, just like you said!
