The Prison and Jail System
Rhode Island has a unified system which means there is an integrated state-level prison and jail system. There are six states with unified systems. They are: Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
As of December 31, 2022, Rhode Island has 5 counties. The number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of the State of Rhode Island correctional authorities was 2,393 located in 6 state prisons and held in custody of private prisons or local jails. There are 1,483 staff positions with a budget of $251,613,181.
The Community Corrections System
As of December 31, 2022, Rhode Island community corrections population was 17,320 under probation and 380 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.
- County Population Totals and Components of Change: 2020-2023
- Federal Bureau of Investigation Crime Data Explorer
- How much do states spend on prisoners?
- Prisoners in 2022 – Statistical Tables
- Probation and Parole in the United States, 2022
- Rhode Island Department of Corrections Salaries 2022
- State of Rhode Island Detail Budget and Actual Schedule – General Fund 2022