The Jail System
North Carolina has 93 jails in 100 counties. The jail population in 2022 was 18,151.
The Prison System
As of December 31, 2022, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of North Carolina correctional authorities was 29,627 located in 53 state prisons and held in custody of private prisons or local jails. State operated facilities had a staff of 13,745 employees and a budget of $1,975,107,080.
The Community Corrections System
As of December 31, 2022, North Carolina community corrections population was 60,580 under probation and 9,710 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, county numbers, 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 2022 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.
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