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MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS ADULT PRISON POPULATION SUMMARY AS OF 01/01/2019 (unless noted) Section Contents Section 1. Adult Prison Population Summary as of 01-01-2019 ........................................................................ Pages 1 to 3 Section 2. Admissions and Releases for CY18 (01/01/2018 to 12/31/2018) ................................................ Page 4 Minnesota Department of Corrections 1450 Energy Park Drive, Suite 200 St. Paul, MN 55108-5219 (651) 361-7200 TTY (800) 627-3529 January 1, 2019 Section 1. Adult Prison Population Summary as of 01/01/2019 Section 1. Adult Prison Population Summary as of 01/01/2019 POPULATION: Males 8,830 93.2% Females 649 6.9% Total 9,479 OFFENSES (top six total 6,847): Drugs 1,691 17.8% Criminal Sexual Conduct 1,631 17.2% Homicide 1,451 15.3% Assault 824 8.7% Weapons 720 7.6% Robbery 530 5.6% Note: Percentages are based on the total population of 9,479. TYPE OF OFFENSES: Person 5,131 54.1% Drug 1,691 17.8% Property 919 9.7% Weapons 720 7.6% Other 498 5.3% DWI 491 5.2% PSI Holds 29 0.3% Total 9,479 NUMBER OF LIFERS: 610 (644 including Non-Minnesota) Note: Of the 610 Minnesota lifers: 140 have a sentence of life without parole; and 86 were not incarcerated in a Minnesota correctional facility. AVERAGE AGE (in years): 37.9 CURRENT INMATES AGE 50 OR OLDER: 1,478 CURRENT INMATES UNDER AGE 18: 5 AVERAGE POPULATION CY2018: 9,687 INMATES CERTIFIED AS ADULTS AT SENTENCING: 256 MINNCOR INDUSTRY – INMATES EMPLOYED: 1,633 Page 1 of 4 Section 1. Adult Prison Population Summary as of 01/01/2019 RACE: White 4,892 51.6% Black 3,459 34.5% American Indian 854 9.0% Asian 265 2.8% Unknown/Other 9 0.1% Total 9,479 Note: 545 (5.8%) of the above are of Hispanic ethnicity. EDUCATIONAL LEVEL: Grades 0 – 8 331 3.5% Grades 9 – 11 2,145 22.6% High School Graduate 2,675 28.2% GED 2,466 26.0% College and Up 1,751 18.5% Other/unknown 111 1.2% Total 9,479 MARITAL STATUS: Single 6,932 73.1% Married 1,124 11.9% Divorced/Separated 1,059 11.2% Other/Unknown 364 3.8% Total 9,479 RELIGION: Unknown/No Preference 3,049 32.2% Other Christian 2,803 29.6% Catholic 953 10.1% Other Religions 739 7.8% Lutheran 533 5.6% Native American Religions 526 5.6% Muslim 480 5.1% Baptist 396 4.2% Total 9,479 COUNTY OF COMMITMENT (top six total 5,369): Hennepin 2,592 27.3% Ramsey 1,144 12.1% Dakota 454 4.8% St. Louis 438 4.6% Stearns 388 4.1% Anoka 353 3.7% Note: Percentages are based on total population of 9,479. Page 2 of 4 Section 1. Adult Prison Population Summary as of 01/01/2019 POPULATION BY FACILITY/LOCATION: Faribault 1,984 20.9% Stillwater 1,536 16.2% Lino Lakes 1,281 13.5% Moose Lake 1,052 11.1% St. Cloud 1,023 10.8% Rush City 1,001 10.6% Shakopee 599 6.3% Oak Park Heights 373 3.9% Willow River 140 1.5% Togo 64 0.7% Red Wing 45 0.5% County Jail/Federal Prison (Contract) 127 1.3% Work Release 192 2.0% Institution Community Work Crews 25 0.3% Non-DOC Correctional Facility (Short Term) 37 0.4% Total 9,479 Page 3 of 4 Section 2. Admissions and Releases For Period 01/01/2018 to 12/31/2018 Section 2. Admissions and Releases for CY2018 ADMISSIONS (CY2018): New Commitments 4,417 59.8% Release Return Without New Sentence 2,591 35.1% Release Return With New Sentence 381 5.2% Total 7,389 Note: The above includes admissions of all offenders committed to the commissioner of corrections. Because offenders can be admitted more than once in a given year, the above measures the total number of prison admissions, not the total number of individual offenders admitted to prison. COMMITMENTS CY2017 CY2018 Change January-June 2,696 2,488 -7.7% July-December 2,518 2,310 -8.3% Total 5,214 4,798 -8.0% Note: Includes new commitments and release return with new sentence by calendar year. RELEASES (CY2018): Supervised Release/Parole 6,359 77.1% Community Programs 1,063 12.9% Discharge 783 9.5% Other 47 0.6% Total 8,252 Note: The above includes releases from prison as well as releases from community programs (i.e., work release) to supervised release. Because offenders can be released from either prison or a community program more than once in a given year, the above measures the total number of transitions to a release status, not the total number of individual offenders who exit a prison facility. Page 4 of 4 poverty and opportunity profile Americans with Criminal Records The United States is the global leader in incarceration. Today, more than 1.5 million Americans are incarcerated in state and federal prisons, a figure that has quintupled since 1980. Adding in jails, the number of Americans who are behind bars rises to 2.2 million. One in three U.S. adults has been arrested by age 23. Communities of color; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals; and people with histories of abuse or mental illness are disproportionately affected. As a result, between 70 million and 100 million—or as many as one in three Americans—have some type of criminal record. Having even a minor criminal record, such as a misde- meanor or even an arrest without conviction, can create an array of lifelong barriers that stand in the way of successful re-entry. This has broad implications for individuals’ and families’ economic security, as well as for our national economy. Mass incarceration and hyper-criminalization serve as major drivers of poverty; having a criminal record can present obstacles to employment, housing, public assistance, education, family reunification, building good credit, and more. a Rise of mass incarceration b Disproportionate impact The number of Americans incarcerated in federal and state on communities of color prisons has quintupled over the past three decades Black men are six times more likely to be incarcerated 1,600,000 than white men, and Hispanic men are 2.5 times 1,400,000 more likely to be incarcerated than white men 1,200,000 2013 1,000,000 1,574,700 800,000 600,000 400,000 200,000 0 1925 1950 1975 2000 Sources: Analysis of Bureau of Justice Statistics Data by The Sentencing Project, “Trends in U.S. Source: Analysis of Bureau of Justice Statistics data by The Sentencing Project, “Trends in U.S. Corrections” (2013), available at http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_Trends_in_ Corrections” (2013), available at http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/inc_Trends_in_ Corrections_Fact_sheet.pdf; E. Anne Carson and Daniela Golinelli, “Prisoners in 2012” (Washington: Corrections_Fact_sheet.pdf. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2013), available at http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p12tar9112.pdf. c Effect on families d The back end of mass incarceration As of 2007, more than half of Americans in state and hyper-criminalization and federal prisons were parents of minor children As many as one in three Americans have criminal records As many as 100 million Americans have criminal records Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Parents in Prison and Their Minor Children (U.S. Department of Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems, 2012 (U.S. Justice, 2008), available at http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/pptmc.pdf. Department of Justice, 2014), available at https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/bjs/grants/244563.pdf. 1 half in ten | americans with criminal records e f Rising costs and a net loss Barriers to employment Correctional expenditures have quadrupled since 1982 With 87 percent of employers conducting background checks, a State and federal expenditures (in billions of dollars) criminal record can be a major barrier to employment 60 More than 60 percent 50 those who do of formerly incarcerated find jobs take 40 1982 individuals are unem- $15.86 home 40 GDP loss 2012 ployed one year after 30 State percent less annually: $48.44 being released; $65 billion* pay annually 20 2012 1982 Federal $6.64 10 $1.02 0 * Employment losses due to criminal records resulted in as much as $65 billion in lost gross domestic product output in 2008. Sources: Author’s calculations are based on Bureau of the Census, Annual Survey of State Government Sources: Society for Human Resource Management, “Background Checking—The Use of Criminal Finances (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1982–2012), available at https://www.census.gov/govs/state/ Background Checks in Hiring Decisions” (2012), available at http://www.shrm.org/research/ historical_data.html; Tracey Kyckelhahn, “State Corrections Expenditures, FY 1982-2010” (Washington: surveyfindings/articles/pages/criminalbackgroundcheck.aspx; Bruce Western, “Collateral Costs” Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2014), available at http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/scefy8210.pdf; (Washington: The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2010), available at http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/ Nathan James, “The Bureau of Prisons (BOP): Operations and Budget” (Washington: Congressional legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_assets/2010/CollateralCosts1pdf.pdf?la=en. Research Service, 2014), available at http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42486.pdf. John Schmitt and Kris Warner, “Ex-offenders and the Labor Market” (Washington: Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2010), available at http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/ex-offenders-2010-11.pdf. g h Barriers to public assistance Mass incarceration is hurt women and children a major driver of poverty In many states, people with felony drug convictions are Without mass incarceration, 5 million fewer Americans would banned for life from receiving certain types of assistance have been poor between 1980 and 2014 180,000 women The U.S.