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Line graph showing the number of people incarcerated in Wisconsin's prisons and jails from 1978 to 2022.
The Wisconsin prison population has grown substantially over the last 30 years, more than tripling from 1990 to 2019. To present a complete picture of how the prison population has changed, admissions to prison, point-in-time prison population counts, and releases from prison are included in this report series. All three types of data are
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This is a list of state prisons in Wisconsin. It does not include federal prisons or county jails located in the state of Wisconsin.
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As of December 31, 2020, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of Wisconsin correctional authorities was 20,298 located in 18 state prisons and held in custody of private prisons or local jails. State operated facilities had a staff of 10,241 employees and budget of $1,296,551,490.
As of December 31, 2020, Wisconsin community corrections population was 38,385 under probation and 1,683 under parole.
The National Institute of Corrections depends on publicly available information to provide the information on this page. The statistics for budgets, employee positions, and state prison facilities data come from state departments of corrections, other state reports and state agencies. If data is missing for a state, then we were unable to find that...
On September 30, 2022 (the most recent date for which federal prison offense data were available), 46% (66,000) of all persons in federal prison were serving time for a drug offense and 43% (61,400) were serving time for a public order offense (tables 19 and 20).
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New figures from the Department of Corrections (DOC) show the number of adults in state prisons reached a record 23,687 in 2017, up 2.3% from the previous year. The department’s budget request for the next two years predicts those numbers will grow by another 5.7%, to more than 25,000 by 2021.
