Former Current
Age inmates inmates
Total 4,299,000 1,319,000
18-24 155,000 254,000
25-34 775,000 511,000
35-44 1,280,000 385,000
45-54 1,002,000 130,000
55-64 509,000 30,000
65 or older 578,000 9,000
Note: See _Methodology_ for estimation procedures.
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+More than two-thirds of former prisoners no longer under correctional
supervision+
At yearend 2001 former prisoners included 731,147 persons on parole, an
estimated 437,000 persons on probation who had either served part of
their current sentence in prison or been confined in prison on a
previous sentence, and an estimated 166,000 jail inmates who had served
a previous sentence in prison. An estimated 3 million former prisoners
were no longer under correctional supervision as of yearend 2001.
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