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Prison and Jail Population, by Most Serious Offense

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From the Bureau of Justice Statistics Prisoners in 2019 data (tables 14 & 15) [UPDATE: link added], aggregating state and federal prisoners:

Violent 50.83%
Property 14.99%
Drug possession   3.35%
Drug other 14.63%
Weapons   6.29%
DUI   1.54%
Other   8.36%

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.