Prisoners per sleeping space in U.S. federal and state prisons in 1997, by prison architecture, weighted by prison populations. Similar statistics for U.S. local jails in 1996.

Dataset sheets:

• federal-state prisons: prisoners per sleeping space by prison architecture (dorm, cells, etc) for federal and state prisons in 1997
• local jails: similar statistics for local jails in 1996

Related datasets:

• prisoners per cell in U.S. state prisons, 1868-1873
• prisoner communication policies in mid-19th-century U.S.
• prison communication policies late in the 20th century