Add It Up - Convict count
A look at the numbers
Number of inmates in Georgia: 53,000
Number of inmates in the United Kingdom: 79,861
Rank of U.S. on a list of the highest prison rates in the world: 1
Number of adults under some form of correctional supervision nationwide: 1 in 32
Number of adults under some form of correctional supervision in Georgia: 1 in 15
Percentage that Georgia's prison population has increased this year: 9.4
Georgia's rank in size of prison systems in the United States: 5
Georgia's population rank in the U.S.: 10
Percentage of Georgia's prisoners who are black: 60
Percentage of Georgia's population that's black: 28
Approximate number of federal lawsuits pending against the Georgia Department of Corrections that allege inmate abuse, filed by Atlanta lawyer McNeill Stokes: 40
Approximate number of unannounced shakedowns conducted by the DOC this year: 18
Sources: U.S. Department of Justice, International Centre for Prison Studies at King's College London, Gainesville Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia Department of Corrections, U.S. Census Bureau