The Jail System
New York has 62 jails in 62 counties. The jail population in 2021 was 15,057.
The Prison System
As of December 31, 2021, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of New York correctional authorities was 30,321 located in 52 state prisons and held in custody of private prisons or local jails. State operated facilities had a staff of 27,556 employees and a budget of $3,193,000,000.
The Community Corrections System
As of December 31, 2021, New York community corrections population was 69,361 under probation and 39,802 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 Prisoner in 2021 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.