The Jail System
Michigan has 88 jails in 83 counties. The jail population in 2020 was 17,020.
The Prison System
As of December 31, 2020, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of the State of Michigan correctional authorities was 33,617 located in 31 correctional facilities and held in custody of private prisons or local jails. Michigan operated facilities had a staff of 11,941 employees and a budget of $2,060,788,400.
The Community Corrections System
As of December 31, 2020, Michigan community corrections population was 118,778 under probation and 13,461 under parole.
Methodology
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 information.
The data on prison population and incarcerate rate come from the Prisoners in 2020 report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The report includes the count of prisoners in the unified systems of Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Violent and property crime rates are provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
The number of counties per state comes from the United States Census Bureau.