The Jail System
Texas has 232 jails in 254 counties. The jail population in 2022 was 75,838.
The Prison System
As of December 31, 2022, the number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of Texas correctional authorities was 139,631 located in 60 state prisons and held in custody of private prisons or local jails. State operated facilities had a staff of 27,837 employees and a budget of $3,413,163,942.
The Community Corrections System
As of December 31, 2022, Texas community corrections population was 364,180 under probation and 100,600 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 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.
- Census of Jails, 2005–2019 – Statistical Tables
- 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
- Texas Department of Justice Annual Review Fiscal Year 2022
- VERA Incarceration Trends: Texas